Food, Inc.

makes quick work of the pastoral image of most supermarket products. While packaging that depicts happy cows and green grass keeps the idealized picture of agrarian America alive, director Robert Kenner goes looking for the real story. In the process, he meets farmers who want to stop being oppressed by massive meat companies like Tyson. One farmer refused to comply with the demand to build dark tunnels for her chickens and was punished with the termination of her contract. Another does not mind allowing his chickens' legs to collapse because of their unnaturally fast growth -- in his words, it means "more money in my pocket." The abuses that Kenner seeks to expose in his interviews are innumerable: ill treatment of animals and employees in meat companies, E. coli bacteria in hamburgers, soybean giant Monsanto's hunger for power, and an explosion of diabetes primarily because bad food is so cheap. Kenner reveals how it is possible that you can sell a hamburger for only a dollar: only the bad calories get subsidized by the government. also includes interviews with writers Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, who confirm many of Kenner's unsavory discoveries.