Az ismert, hatvanéves éttermi kritikus, Charles Duchemin pályafutása csúcsán a visszavonulás gondolatával foglalkozik. Előtte azonban még el akarja készíteni híres éttermi kalauzának utolsó kiadását, illetve át akarja adni fiának, Gérardnak tudását és szakmai tapasztalatát. A fiúnak azonban esze ágában sincs édesapja nyomdokaiba lépni és titokban vándorcirkuszt alapít, amelyben bohócként lép fel. Charles-nak más gondjai is akadnak: legnagyobb ellensége, Jacques Tricatel gyorséttermi birodalmával forradalmasítani akarja a francia gasztronómiát. A férfi megpróbálja ellopni az éttermi kalauz utolsó kiadását, hogy titokban megszerezhesse a rosszul minősített vendéglátó egységeket.
Egy baljóslatú felmérés szerint az amerikai gyermekek és felnőttek 37%-a kövér, minden három felnőtt közül kettő túlsúlyos vagy elhízott. Vajon az önkontroll hiányát vagy a gyorséttermi ételeket hibáztathatjuk ezért? Miért olyan kövérek az amerikaiak? A Super Size Me című filmből gunyorosan, hamburgerrel a kézben kaphatjuk meg a magyarázatot - a produkció betekintést nyújt Amerika gyorséttermeinek legális, financiális és fizikai költségeibe. Morgan Spurlock rendező útra kelt, és 20 amerikai városban készített interjút szakértőkkel.Utazása során Spurlock saját magával is kísérletezett, egy hónapon át csak a McDonald's által kínált ételeket ette, s három egyszerű szabályhoz tartotta magát:1. Nincs válogatás: csak azt eheti, ami ki van rakva a pultra (beleértve a vizet is).2. Semmi extra adag, hacsak nem ajánlják fel.3. Nincs kifogás: legalább egyszer meg kellett ennie minden, a menüben szereplő fogást.
Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
Drámaian megváltozott az amerikai élelmiszer-termelés az elmúlt harminc évben. Hol van az az idő, amikor az élelmiszerek a farmergazdaságokból kerültek a háziasszonyok asztalára? Manapság ipari méretekben folyik a mezőgazdasági termelés, és a pénzhajhászás háttérbe szorította az élelmiszerbiztonságot és a fogyasztók egészségét. Miközben a földeken génkezelt terményeket termesztenek, az állatokat is antibiotikumokkal tömik. A filmesek szerint mindez szorosan összefügg a lakosság elhízásával, a különféle betegségek terjedésével, a környezetszennyezéssel. Az egyetlen kiutat az öntudatos vásárlók és a biotermesztés jelenti.
Sweety has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married but the ultimate truth is that her love might not find acceptance in her family and society.
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.
The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Documentary looking at both burger chains and how they have grown to become world-dominating fast food brands.
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.