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Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner.

The film examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and its employees.

The film is narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser. The documentary was criticized by large American corporations engaged in industrial food production.

Awards

The film tied for fourth place as best documentary at the 35th Seattle International Film Festival.

The film was nominated for best documentary in the 82nd Academy Awards but lost to The Cove.

Robert Kenner:

Robert Kenner is an American film and television screenwriter, television director, film director, film producer, and television producer.

1984 - 3:15 - The Moment of Truth, in 1984 

 1991 - Lonely Hearts.

1993 - The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal

1994 - Russia's Last Tsar

1996 - America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye 

1998 - American Experience 

1998 - Influenza, 1918

1998 - John Brown's Holy War (about abolitionist John Brown) in 2001.

War Letters

 The Road to Memphis for the 2003

The Blues

2006 - Two Days in October-  The film, which is based on David Maraniss' book They Marched into Sunlight, looks at the parallels between a Viet Cong ambush of a U.S. Army patrol (and the subsequent cover-up of the loss by the American military) and a violent clash between police and student protesters at the University of Wisconsin–Madison—events which occurred 24 hours apart in October 1967.[12] The episode was nominated for and won the award for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking at the 2006 Emmy Awards.

In 2008, Kenner produced and directed the documentary film, Food, Inc., which examines large-scale agricultural food production in the United States, concluding that the meat and vegetables produced by this type of economic enterprise leads to inexpensive but environmentally harmful and unhealthy food.

Michael Pollan  is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Books: 

(1991). Second Nature: A Gardener's Education. 

(1997). Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder. 

(2001). The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. 

(2006). The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. 

(2008). In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. 

 (2009). Food Rules: An Eater's Manual. 

Eric Schlosser  is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew On This

Books: 

Fast Food Nation, an exposé on the unsanitary and discriminatory practices of the fast food industry. Fast Food Nation evolved from a two-part article in Rolling Stone. Schlosser helped adapt his book into a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater. The film opened November 19, 2006. Schlosser is credited as co-screenwriter and executive producer. He has written Chew On This (2006, with Charles Wilson).

He has also written the 2003 book Reefer Madness, a three part book that discusses the history and current trade of marijuana, the use of migrant workers in California strawberry fields, and the American pornography industry and its history.

He is currently at work on a book on nuclear weapons and another book on America's prison system which has been nearly 10 years in the making.[2]