Food Inc 
Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the
livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation.
Q&A with Producer/Director Robert Kenner, Co-Producer/Food Expert Eric Schlosser, Food Expert Michael Pollan and Producer Elise Pearlstein
How did this film initially come about?
Kenner: Eric Schlosser and I had been wanting to do a documentary version of his book, Fast Food Nation. And, for one reason or another, it didn’t happen. By the time Food, Inc. started to come together, we began talking and realized that all food has become like fast food, and all food is being created in the same manner as fast food.
How has fast food changed the food we buy at the supermarket?
Schlosser: The enormous buying power of the fast food industry helped to transform the entire food production system of the United States. So even when you purchase food at the supermarket, you’re likely to be getting products that came from factories, feedlots and suppliers that emerged to serve the fast food chains.
How many years did it take to do this film and what were the challenges?
Kenner: From when Eric and I began talking, about 6 or 7 years. The film itself about 2 ½ years. It has taken a lot longer than we expected because we were denied access to so many places.
I’ve had this film for a while but I’ve been psyching myself up to watch it as I knew what it was about and what to expect and I need to be in the right frame of mind to cope with it. So I decided to watch it today, IDK why 
lol I’ve read Eric-Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation so some of it was familiar to me already, but the sheer scale of the problem and the size of some of these companies/factories was a real eye-opener as well as the scariness of the new strains of E-coli that are now appearing in non-meat foodstuffs like spinach and apples. That just shouldn’t happen but it now does thanks to the current food production practices. As always I find the animal slaughter really disturbing even in the so called “humane” farms.
