Dünyaca ünlü bir Restoran rehberi hazırlayan Charles Duchemin kılık değiştirerek girdiği restoranlarda yemekleri ve hizmeti gözlemler bunu da çok titiz bir şekilde hazırlanmış rehberinde yayınlar.O yüzden onun rehberinde iyi bir şekilde tanınmak isteyen restoranlar çok dikkatli olmak zorundadırlar.Ancak Baba Duchemin artık işi oğlu Gerard'a devretme zamanının geldiğini düşünmektedir.Fakat Gerard'ın en büyük arzusu ise Sirklerde Palyaço olarak çalışmaktır ve babasından gizlice bu işi yapmaktadır..
Spurlock, fast food'un insanlar üzerindeki etkisini görebilmek için, günde 3 öğün sadece ve sadece McDonal's'larda beslenmeye başlar. Yiyebileceği ve içebileceği şeyler sadece McDonald's menüsündekilerle sınırlıdır. 1 ay boyunca bu diyeti uygulayan Spurlock, kısa zamanda fiziksel ve psikolojik olarak etkilenmeye başlar. Daha ikinci haftada tüm sağlığı bozulan Spurlock, doktorların tabiriyle ölümle yüzyüze gelme tehlikesi altındadır.
Belgesel türündeki film, Amerikan beslenme kültürüne, şişmanlığın kaynağına ve yaşam tarzlarına cesur bir bakış sergiliyor.
Şekerin hayatımıza nasıl sokulduğunu anlatan müthiş bir belgesel . Obezitenin varoluşunun sebebinin de açıklandığı yapım adeta şunu söylemek istiyor : "yakın zamanda çocuklara çeyrek altın yerine insülin hediye edeceğiz!" Acı ama gerçek!Gıda ile ilgili devlet politikaları geliştirilmeli ve halk beslenme konusunda bilinçlendirilmelidir. Kilo ile ilgili sorunu olan yada olabilecek herkesin izlemesi lazım
Damon Gameau isimli bir aktör, şeker bağımlılığı ve şekerin vücuda zararları ile ilgili bir deney yapmaya karar verir. Günlük aldığı kalori miktarını değiştirmeden diyetine günlük 40 çay kaşığı (160 gram) şeker ekler ve bu şekeri kaşık kaşık eklemez, tükettiği hazır gıda ürünlerinden alır. Bu belgesel, Gameau’nun sağlığının kısa sürede bundan nasıl etkilendiğini, şekerin sadece bedensel sağlığı etkilemekle kalmayarak beyni ve ruhsal sağlığı da ciddi düzeyde etkilediğini, şekerin her türlüsünün ne kadar zararlı olduğunu ve bağımlılık yarattığını ve, bu gerçeklerin üzerinin serbest piyasa ekonomisi ve dünyanın önde gelen şirketlerinin baskılarıyla nasıl kapatıldığını çarpıcı bir şekilde gösteriyor.
Gıda endüstrisini ve şirketlerini ağır bir şekilde eleştiren Robert Kenner tarafından çekilmiş ilgi çekici bir belgesel. Gıda şirketlerinin yediklerimiz üzerinde ne gibi değişiklikler yapıp önümüze getirdiğini ve insanların bu konuda bilinçlenmesi üzerine fikirler ortaya koyuyor. Ayrıca yediklerimizin nasıl önümüze geldiğini bilsek bunları yemekten vazgeçeceğimize dair bizi uyarıyor.
Ailesinin evlendirmek istediği ve ümit dolu bir yazarın talip olduğu kasabalı bir kadın, gerçekte kimi sevdiğine dair uzun süredir sakladığı sırrı açıklamaya çabalar.
The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.
An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.
King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.
Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?In this investigative film, director Miki Mistrati tries to find out, if the chocolate industry – which is one of the largest corporations in the world – speak the truth, when they say that they provide education, medical care etc for the children of the Ivory Coast. But the project runs into trouble already from the get-go, because the embassy of the Ivory Coast won’t let Miki enter the country until he has an invitation – from the chocolate industry.
Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?
The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.
A food safety officer and a teacher who has no sense of smell come together to fight the practice of food adulteration and its devastating effect on people.
The film exposes the links between Agrifood and politics. With a pool of international experts it analyses the many problems related to factory farming: water pollution, migrants exploitation, biodiversity loss and antibiotic resistance.
In the middle of an economic crisis, in the shadow of Wall Street, an institution that represents a less well-known American tradition is booming. The Park Slope Food Coop: a cooperative supermarket where all 16,000 members work 3 hours per months to earn the right to buy the best food in New York at incredibly low prices. The success of this cooperative is a bad new for capitalism and aggro-alimentary business, and an opportunity to change the food production and distribution systems. We will see what has become of the Park Slope Food Coop, now a well-rooted institution in the heart of Brooklyn: the way it functions, its hundreds of rules, the diversity and eccentricity of its members. We'll see how the culture that has been created at the coop gives its members daily visceral lessons in democracy, how this could represent a potential change in mentality for Americans faced with increasingly difficult economic times.
This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions of working people in opposing social orders. Using the example of shipyard workers, fishermen, the brigade and family of a trade union active cook and unemployed person of various ages and professions in Newcastle on the one hand and a brigade of crane operators of the Warnowwerft and fishermen of the Warnemünde cooperative on the other hand, insights into the way of life and attitudes of people of our time are to be conveyed.
A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.
The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.
Canned Dreams shows the multi-branching network of the modern food industry. The Finnish consumer buys a can in the grocery store, but where from far away do the raw materials and packaging materials for the preserves come from - and through how many hands? The film not only traces the various stages of the production process, but gives a voice to the people who work as part of it.
All food can be adulterated. More discreet than a drug cartel, more elusive than arms dealers, criminals have taken over food. Olive oil, fish, meat, spices, no department escapes their juicy traffic. A jackpot estimated in Europe at 30 billion euros enriches a new kind of mafia every year. Organized crime is selling altered products in restaurants, supermarkets and all food shops in the European Union. Their secret is to replace an ingredient with a cheaper one. Who are these new traffickers? What are their methods of operation?