Food, Inc. 2

When Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation in 2001, his exposé of the fast-food industry, it proved an astonishing and, to say the least, off-putting read, particularly due to the details of the standards involved in the sourcing and preparation of meat for markets the world over. Robert Kenner’s documentary Food, Inc. (2008) expanded upon Schlosser’s reportage to paint a similarly dispiriting picture of the industrialised nature of food production, again focusing primarily on the meat industry. Fifteen years later, Kenner and co-director Melissa Robledo enlist Schlosser and food academic Michael Pollan to revisit the subject. Although they find new alternatives gaining ground, from lab-grown meat to plant-based meat substitutes, it is apparent that the corporate stranglehold on food and its content has only tightened in the interim. Although perhaps less revelatory than its predecessor, it is no less infuriating and horrifying.