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Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner [1] and narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser. [5] [6] It examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees.
Language. English. Box office. $26,502 (US) [2] Food, Inc. 2 is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, and narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Food, Inc.. The film focuses on corporate consolidation in the American food and agriculture business. [3][4]
Kevin's Law (as referred to in Representative Anna Eshoo's introduction of the law in 2005 and in the 2008 documentary Food, Inc.; formally known as the Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act of 2003, H.R. 2203) was proposed legislation that would have given the United States Department of Agriculture the power to close down plants that produce contaminated meat.
The makers of the influential 2008 documentary “Food, Inc.” never planned to make a sequel. Well, first of all, the pandemic — an event that both strained our food system and revealed its ...
“Food, Inc. 2,” the follow-up to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary on the effects of agribusiness on American consumers, is set for a special screening event from Magnolia Pictures on April 9.
"Food, Inc. 2" has some vital if mostly familiar things to say about the crisis state of the American food system. But it’s a far less sure-footed and authoritative documentary than "Food Inc." was.
In 2008, he produced and directed the Oscar nominated, Emmy winning documentary film, Food, Inc., which examines the industrialization of the American food system and its impacts on workers, consumers, and the environment. [1] Variety wrote that Food, Inc. “does for the supermarket what Jaws did for the beach.” [4]
Pollan was born to a Jewish family on Long Island, New York. [6] [7] He is the son of author and financial consultant Stephen Pollan and columnist Corky Pollan.[8]After studying at Mansfield College, Oxford, through 1975, [9] [10] [11] Pollan received a B.A. in English from Bennington College in 1977 and an M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1981.