Food Inc. (2009)

“Food Inc.” is unshakable. I almost became a vegetarian. A Farmer’s Market, buy local, vegan. I still may. Thank God it mixes hope with much horror. The horror is the food on our collective dinner tables, provided by multi-billion dollar corporations that have turned eating -- the essence of humanity – into a commodity with no value for life. A military industrial complex. To wit: We’re paying companies to kill us slowly through food that is not real: X-Men chickens, lab-made soy beans and tomatoes reddened with God knows what. Director Robert Kenner and his narrators, Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, show us the slaughterhouses and detail the grueling death of a toddler by food poisoning, but they also introduce a Virginia farmer who loves the land, and wants to do right by people and animals. Stellar interviews and vignettes go a long way in teaching us who we are, because as the cliché goes, we are what we eat. See this now because the big corps say it’s a lie, and see it before we follow the GOP/Tea Party into handing the keys of the kingdom over to companies that have no values but for stocks. Price, that is, not animal. A