"Food Inc." certainly provides a lot of food for thought (pun intended). It is a worthwhile documentary and deserves some attention. However, it is unfortunate that it is so biased. Full disclosure: I am a journalist who writes for an agricultural publication which takes advertising dollars from some of the corporations slammed in this film. So I may have a slight bias toward farming. But I would like to add a little balance. For instance, how many people realize that E. coli can infect organic foods as well as corporately grown foods? In fact, it is likely that some of the spinach involved in the E. coli outbreak of a few years ago was grown on an organic farm. Organic produce can easily be tainted with E. coli, since it usually comes from animal feces, and manure is often used to fertilize organic fields. But that bit of information was conveniently left out of the documentary. Also, it is ridiculous to blame the food industry for the California family's love affair with fast food. To claim they are virtually forced to eat McDonald's burgers because broccoli is too expensive is laughable. A family can eat a well-rounded diet very economically. And that, by the way, is largely because of the wonderful advances made by the agricultural industry over the past few decades which has made food production more efficient.
Review of Food, Inc.
