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Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner (EE.UU. de América, 2008) [Color, 94 min]



(wikipedia | filmaffinity | página oficial)

El primer segmento del film examina la producción industrial de carne, llamándola inhumana y económica y ambientalmente insostenible. El segundo segmento se centra en la producción industrial de grano y verduras, etiquetándola de económica y ambientalmente insostenible también. El tercer y final segmento trata sobre el poder económico y legal de las grandes compañías de producción de alimentos (que según los autores se basa en ofrecer comida barata pero contaminada y en el uso de químicos basados en el petróleo, sobre todo pesticidas y fertilizantes) y la promoción de hábitos de consumo de comida insalubre hacia el público estadounidense.

El filme fue producido por Pollan y Schlosser (ambos aparecen también en él) y por Participant Media, la compañía que también produjo el documental de 2006 de Al gore "Una verdad incómoda". Se empleó tres años en realizar el filme. El director, Robert Kenner, afirma haber gastado grandes cantidades de su presupuesto para defenderse de las demandas legales de los productores industriales de comida, pesticidas y fertilizantes, y otras compañías criticadas en el filme.

En el documental se escribió:Las empresas no quieren que la gente sepa la verdad sobre lo que come, porque, si lo supiese, no lo comería.

Las vacas no han evolucionado para comer maíz. Ellas han sido diseñadas evolutivamente para comer hierba. La única razón por la que las alimentamos con maíz es porque éste es más barato y porque las hace engordar más rápido.

En Sensacine se escribió:“Food, Inc.” analiza el funcionamiento de una industria que afecta cada día a nuestro medio ambiente y a nuestra salud. Desde los inmensos campos de maíz a los coloridos estantes de los supermercados, pasando por mataderos insalubres, un periodista realiza una investigación para conocer cómo se elabora todo lo que llevamos a nuestros platos. Tras las pastoriles etiquetas de los productos agrícolas descubrimos a duras penas el cuadro tan poco bucólico que las industrias agroalimentarias intentan ocultar: desastrosas condiciones de cría y sacrificio del ganado, complicidad entre las industrias y las instituciones de regulación, ausencia de escrúpulos medioambientales, escándalos sanitarios… Ganaderos desesperados, expertos independientes, empresarios íntegros y defensores de los derechos de los consumidores esbozan, cada uno a su manera, el retrato de una industria que sacrifica la calidad de sus productos y la salud de sus clientes a cambio de beneficios.

En Filmaffinity se escribió:Una ácida y crítica mirada a la industria alimentaria en Norteamérica.

Otras referencias
- "Si todos comen como estadunidenses, necesitamos 5 planetas para el sustento", por Tania Molina Ramírez. La Jornada (02/06/2010).
- Food, Inc. LiberArte.
- Food, Inc. Wikipedia.
- Alimento transgénico. Wikipedia.

Guión: Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein, Kim Roberts.
Editor: Kim Roberts.
Música: Mark Adler.
Fotografía: Richard Pearce (Color).
Montaje: Kim Roberts.
Producción: Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein, Richard Pearce, Melissa Robledo, Eric Schlosser, Robin Schorr, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann.
Productora: Magnolia Pictures / Participant Media / River Road Entertainment.

• Eric Schlosser (Author, Fast Food Nation).
• Richard Lobb (National Chicken Council).
• Vince Edwards (Tyson Grower).
• Carole Morison (Perdue Grower).
• Michael Pollan (Author, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma').
• Troy Roush (Vice President, American Corn Growers Association).
• Larry Johnson (Center for Crops Utilization Research, Iowa State University).
• Allen Trenkle (Ruminant Nutrition Expert, Iowa State University).
• Patricia Buck (Food Safety Advocate).
• Barbara Kowalyck (Food Safety Advocate).
• Diana DeGette (Representative, Colorado).
• Phil English (Representative, Pennsylvania).
• Eldon Roth (Founder of BPI).
• Maria Andrea Gonzalez (Mother).
• Rosa Soto (California Center for Public Health Advocacy).
• Joel Salatin (Polyface Farms Owner).
• Eduardo Pena (Union Organizer).
• Gary Hirshberg (CEO, Stonyfield Farm).
• Amanda Ellis-Thurber (Organic Farmer).
• Tony Airoso (Wal-Mart's Chief Dairy Purchaser).
• Moe Parr (Seed Cleaner).
• Stephen R. Pennell (Moe's Lawyer).
• David Runyon (Farmer).
• William P. Kealey (Lawyer).
• Tom Brokaw (archive footage).
• Maurice McDonald (archive footage).
• Richard McDonald (archive footage).
• Dan Rather (archive footage).
• Oprah Winfrey (as Herself (archive footage).

- 2009: Oscar: Nominado a mejor documental.
- 2009: Nominada a Critics' Choice Awards: Mejor documental.
- 2009: Asociación de Críticos de Chicago: Nominada a Mejor documental.

Documental / Economía, Industria agroalimentaria, Agricultura.

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- [filmo de ficción] A cualquier precio (2012)
- [filmo de ficción] Fast Food Nation (2006)

AMG SYNOPSIS: Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner uses reports by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and The Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a springboard to exploring where the food we purchase at the grocery store really comes from, and what it means for the health of future generations. By exposing the comfortable relationships between business and government, Kenner gradually shines light on the dark underbelly of the American food industry. The USDA and FDA are supposed to protect the public, so why is it that both government regulatory agencies have been complicit in allowing corporations to put profit ahead of consumer health, the American farmer, worker safety, and even the environment? As chicken breasts get bigger and tomatoes are genetically engineered not to go bad, 73,000 Americans fall ill from powerful new strains of E. coli every year, obesity levels are skyrocketing, and adult diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. Perhaps if the general public knew how corporations use exploited laws and subsidies to create powerful monopolies, the outrage would be enough to make us think more carefully about the food we put into our bodies. -- Jason Buchanan

AMG REVIEW: A word to the squeamish is in order before we proceed with this review: those who are disturbed by scenes of animals being slaughtered (and there aren't many, nor are they emphasized, but there are a few in this movie) might want to be prepared before they see Robert Kenner's Food, Inc. That said, this is an illuminating and, at times, heartbreaking account of what's wrong with the food industry in the United States -- and for anyone who thinks this isn't a problem of some urgency, the participants make the point that the current debate over the nation's healthcare system would likely be a lot less urgent than it is if the food we were eating were healthier for us. Kenner uses his camera and an ironic sense of humor, coupled with a lot of healthy outrage, to portray precisely how the quest to make food manufacturing in the United States more efficient has damaged many of us in the most personal way possible -- inside of our own bodies. His principal villains are corporate giants -- who now control over three quarters of the food that we eat -- and their quest to bring fast-food restaurant methods to the actual making of their products (on the farm as well as in the factory); their main tool seems to be corn, along with various growth hormones and antibiotics added to cattle and chicken feed. And the main victims are...us. One might dismiss some of the more conspiratorial suggestions made by the participants, until they give a list, complete with names and dates, of the food industry officials who have been through the revolving door of corporate employment and the regulatory agencies that are supposed to oversee those corporations' products. That list extends right up to the U.S. Supreme Court and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the majority opinion favoring Monsanto, an ex-employer of his, over its control over seeds and patents; if ever a case presented a primae facia instance of a justice recusing himself, this one would seem to have been it, but Mr. Thomas thought otherwise. And that's only one of the matters addressed in this well-intentioned but, at times, slightly overwhelming exposé. Kenner presents a daunting array of facts and faces to go with them (including the still-grieving mother of a boy who died of E. coli poisoning from tainted hamburger, and a farmer who may lose her farm over her willingness to show the conditions of modern poultry barns), along with some signs of hope. And some of the faces on the side of the angels have been seen and heard from before, such as Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation. They're all articulate and engaging in making their points, and Kenner knows how to keep his camera and images moving, so that they're not just a bunch of talking heads or sometimes funny graphics. But like a meal that is one or two courses too large, Food, Inc. delivers one or two too many layers of its message for easy consumption, and the result is that one does feel a bit...gorged at the end, albeit on what is a healthy and healthful message. A little less, by a few minutes or so, might have more efficiently evoked an even stronger viewer reaction and response. But then again, it's that fast, efficient, easy way of doing things that Kenner and company criticize throughout this film, so perhaps it is best that they went slightly overboard, in keeping with who they are and what they're trying to do. The film has its moments of humor and hope to balance the mood of the piece and the seriousness of its purpose, and more than a little irony. And the silence of Monsanto and the other corporate entities criticized here, after being offered the chance to respond, is deafening. -- Bruce Eder