Food Inc: The Movie Review
8.10.09 by Ruth Nothing makes me think about what a really good ___________ is like like a truly mediocre __________. Case in point: Food Inc. What I didn’t really think about before going, but should have, because it wasn’t hidden at all, was that Food Inc. was not a thoughtful, in depth documentary about a complex issue (example: Is Walmart Good for America?). It was an expose of a complex issue. Because I was already familiar with the issues (”the beef in our burgers is all grass fed only which is healthier and more environmentally friendly and less dangerous and causes the angels to sing in heaven”), I wasn’t shocked. I was more bored, wishing that I could see something that would, you know, make me think.
But okay, it was an expose. It had a purpose, even a worthy one, and that was not to ponder at liesure the subtleties of food policy. It was to show us that the food industry is BAD and that we should definitely start eating grass fed beef, because that makes the angels sing in heaven. Judging by comments made by people ordering grass fed beef burgers from me, it worked, but I still thought it did a bad job. This is why:
The movie was more laundry list than analysis. It had a coherent message (food is made for profit, not for eating) was there, for sure, but it was hard to see for most of the movie. The movie was broken up into segments, which seemed to be a list of victims of the negative consequences of the way we make food. Not every segment was connected back to the larger structures of food for profit. More importantly, it wasn’t shown why food for profit was innately and necesarilly bad, just that it is bad as it exists in the US today.
Furthermore, although it made good points, it didn’t prove them very well. In each segment there was a big assertions with footage showing one example. Beef is usually raised in feed lots where it eats tons of subsidized corn. This increases the likelyhood of ecoli outbreaks. Footage of a feed lot. Footage of a meatpacking plant. I know that what they say is true, but they did a pathetic job of proving it. I would have liked to see multiple examples, history, analysis of why it was true, history of how it came to be true, etc.
I also would have liked to see an interview with someone who doesn’t see anything wrong with feedlots. Nothing is infinitely bad, but when I don’t see the edge of the badness, so to speak, it makes me doubt the well established bad as well as the vague far off bad. They flashed a lot of “such and such a company declined to be interviewed” on the screen, as if they were proud. “This company is so ashamed, it won’t even talk to us.” I believe that you can have a true and balanced. documentary that is so damning and embarasing that a company won’t want to show it’s face on it. But this wasn’t it. The agricultural industry’s concern that it would just be villified in this film was obviously completely legitimate.
Judging from what I hear from people ordering grass fed only hamburgers, Food Inc. has galvanized a lot of people and inspired them to think more about what they eat. And that’s good. I’m not complaining. My recommendation for you, dear reader: read a book about the food industry. Or go watch “Is Walmart Good for America?”
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