Food, Inc. [Blu-ray]

Would recommend

Eye opening and life changing. A must watch!

An excellent film that kept us interested all the way through, except I feel too much time was spent on the woman who lost a child and we fast forwarded through some of that. I am sorry for her loss but it just dragged on too long. My skeptical husband since bought the DVD and has been passing it around to friends, who now want me to raise all their chicken and pork for them :-DUnlike PETA films this one does not try to gross you out and make you a vegetarian. There are a few short graphic scenes but rather than try to sicken you, the message they are trying to get across is how a handful of Big Ag companies control over 80% of America's food supply, and how politically powerful and nearly untouchable these companies are. It all seems very bleak, but at the end you are told how you can get better control of your own food supply... for example raise whatever you can, buy direct from the farmer at the farm or at farmers' markets, at the very least eat simpler and make as much as possible from scratch and fresh foods rather than buying prepackaged, highly processed foods.One point I would like to make about the chickens is that they are not "forced" to grow unnaturally fast as some reviewers say... they have been BRED to grow that way. I grow the same chickens, Cornish Cross broilers, in my "back yard" (we have 10 acres). Mine spend the first three weeks in the brooder til they are feathered out, and in addition to meat bird starter get hand pulled clover and grass with dirt and roots, as well as all the fine hay bits leftover from feeding other animals. After moving to pasture pens I cut their high-powered Meat Grower feed with 25% plain scratch because in my first batch, before I cut the feed, I did have a few keel over from congestive heart failure from too-rapid growth. They also get moved to fresh grass 2-3x daily. No problems with the next two batches -- I ordered 75 chicks and was shipped 79 (a good hatchery always includes a few extras) in those batches and had only 3 die, and those within the first few days, weak ones/shipping stress. I butchered from 6 to 8 weeks of age and while I did not weigh them, visually they were almost all larger than the storebought birds which are usually 3-1/2 to 4 lbs. In fact some were Godzilla chickens, about 8-10 lbs!I love meat and will never be vegetarian unless I am forced to it. Some people will take this movie as a call to vegetarianism. I see it as a reason to buy your food direct from the farmer who grows it, one who allows you to visit the farm personally and see how it is raised. "Organic" simply means the animal was fed organically-grown feed. The animals can still be raised in terrible conditions and their meat labelled "Organic". "Cage Free" and "Free Range" does not mean the birds are happily running around a pasture... it can mean there are still hundreds or thousands crowded at a square foot per bird into buildings, with all their food,water and shade inside so even if there is one small door to the "free range" outside they are likely not going to use it.I want to know how my meat was raised and how it died and was processed. I am lucky in that I can raise and home butcher my own pork and chicken and buy my beef from a friend who raises her animals the same way I do. Many cities are allowing folks within the city limits to keep chickens, so anyone can now keep their own for eggs or meat. My own town has no regs against livestock at all and I know a man in the middle of town who raised a pig in his back yard last year. He does have a large lot and kept the pen scrupulously clean so the neighbors would not have any complaints about smell. Laying hens and meat birds make a lot less noise than your average dog. Just don't keep any roosters to avoid annoying the neighbors (with meat birds sex doesn't matter, they are butchered long before they begin crowing).

I teared up during the slaughter house parts and had to even look away sometimes, but if you eat meat and you didn’t kill the animal yourself, I really hope that you watch this. This video gives you an “in your face” look into how meat ends up in our supermarkets and restaurants - and it’s far from humane, both in the exploitation of animals and people who are hired to harvest and kill them them for slaughter under big corporation and political influence. We don’t need to eat meat everyday to live, or even at all. Think about it, the majority of the corn and soy crops that are harvested goes to force feeding these animals of which humans then eat, when those crops could help sustainably help feed the world instead. Meat consumption is also a huge part of the cycle of destruction that our planet is going down. We’re killing our ecosystem (animals, forests for more animals to be harvested, slaughter sludge and manure entering our fresh water systems), we’re killing the only planet that we and our future generations have to live (global warming, diseases stemmed from animals), and we’re killing ourselves (obesity, heart disease, diabetes) because of our ingrained need to eat meat as part of our regular diets. It’s a lose - lose - lose all around. Animals suffer, our planet suffers and humans suffer. I’ve been “less meat” not necessarily “meatless” for the larger part of a decade now, only eating meat sparingly on special occasions, and am about to complete my first Veganuary challenge. It’s sustainable and it has opened a new food palette for me which I find even more delicious for some dishes than eating meat. Imagine if the McDonalds brothers made burgers from tofu, black beans or chickpeas “a thing” back in the 60s (which they probably didn’t know about back then yet) - how this world could have been a little different today. Thank you for making this very important video on a topic that literally is the beginning of a process that people who eat meat are a part of, of which the end result is human consumption and the consequences that we bear from it each time we vote with our dollar to perpetuate this horrifying animal slaughter system. I always wondered why meat was so cheap to buy at the store, and now that I see how it ends up there, I don’t think ending those animals’ life in such a horrific way was worth the price of whatever it was selling for, human gratification. I hope our future generations watch this video and other similar eye-opener documentary videos for years to come, to help them make more educated decisions after they’ve learned exactly how their meat ended up on their plate.

It's a powerful documentary. Although my wife and I switched to a primarily plant-based diet about two years ago, I still cook meat and dairy for our teenage son and daughter. We try to educate them about our choices, but excuse the pun, we don't feel it is fair to force our choices down their throats. If we had raised them this way, that would be a different thing but to force them to make a switch at this time, is not something we feel comfortable doing. My daughter had to leave the room while watching the slaughter house scenes. It upset her that much. I told her I was sorry that it was so disturbing, but "now that your old enough, you need to know the truth about where your hamburger and steak comes from." The only reason I am not giving this 5 stars is that I think the documentary tries to cover too much ground. It is a bit too long and could use some editing. Also, although it obviously tries not to take sides on political parties (republicans vs democrats), I think it does in a way that is unnecessary and in doing so runs the risk of polarizing some who will reject the message as just another documentary driven by a political agenda. It isn't a big deal, but I could have done without some of that. Otherwise, it is a powerful and worthwhile documentary that will push many out of their comfort zone and force them to think in new ways about what we choose to put in our bodies.

Debería comentar de los daños ocultos del codex alimentarium, que han diseñado para darle exclusividad a monsanto de dominar sobre todo el mercado alimenticio mundial.

Consegna Amazon rapida!Questo dvd dovrebbe essere in ogni casa e ogni tanto guardarlo per ricordarsi cosa stanno facendo le grosse industrie! C'era bisogno di un DVD per capirlo? Sì eccome ! Ho trovato tanta persone che dicono. "se le vendano vuol dire si possono mangiare sennò non le venderebbero"

...und Herzen berührt! Sehr sehenswert. Vor allem, wenn man sich vorher keinerlei Gedanken über Fleischkonsum gemacht hat, oder sich überhaupt gefragt hat, was man da so tagtäglich an Essen in sich hinein stopft. Von Nahrungsmitteln will ich gar nicht reden, denn in diesen hochverarbeiteten Produnkten ist leider kaum noch was nahrhaftes drin, geschweig denn was lebendiges (organisches). Noch dazu bekommt man einen Einblick in Hintergrundinformationen, die einen erschaudern lassen. Lobbyismus wird leider überall bertrieben, aber in diesem Ausmaß, wie es hier gezeigt wird, das lässt einem die Haare zu Berge stehen. Um nicht zuzulassen, dass weiterhin Korruption und Konkurrenz die Welt weiter in den Ruin treiben, sollte ein Jeder sich diese Dokumentation ansehen und sein Essverhalten ändern! Ich habe es bereits getan...

Constater ce que certains Industriels font afin d'augmenter leurs gains et cela, au mépris de toute la planète, terres, humains, animaux etc... serait à démontrer chaque jour, au journal télévisé pour une prise de conscience indispensable pour la vie de DEMAIN! Assez, de reportages sur tous les privilégiés de la PLANETE..... c'est répétitif et fatigant, parlons de l'HUMAIN et de ce que tous les LOBBIES, font de son DROIT DU SOL!....

No he podido ver el documental. Resulta que es NTSC y mi reproductor no es compatible, como es natural en un reproductor de España. No he podido verlo ni siquiera en el ordenador con programas supuestamente válidos para NTSC.¿Qué hacen vendiendo en amazon.es un producto NTSC y encima sin especificarlo claramente?