Food Chains (Blu-ray)

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Format:  Blu-ray BD-R
item number:  6966C
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Blu-ray BD-R Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: October 20, 2015
  • Originally Released: 2015
  • Label: Filmrise

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Directed by
Music by
Narrated by
Screenwriting by
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Produced by , , &
Hosted by , , &

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 352
Rating: 3.5/4 -- An educational and upsetting 81 minutes. Full Review
RedEye
Nov 20, 2014
Rating: 3/5 -- Rawal takes a compassionate but dry approach that suggests he's focused on making a call to arms, not art. Full Review
New York Daily News
Nov 20, 2014
Americans remain all too disconnected from those who toil in grim living and working conditions to supply their food. Maybe it's about time to worry. Full Review
Village Voice
Nov 18, 2014
How miserable does your day have to be to transform the breeze from a pesticide spray into a blessing? Full Review
New York Times
Nov 20, 2014
Rating: 3/4 -- At the end of the day, Rawal is trying to make a point more than telling a story. It's hard to blame him, because we've avoided this shameful problem for too long, and for a change, someone's actually offering a reasonable solution. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Nov 27, 2014
[Food Chains] should literally be seen by every American who unquestioningly lifts fork to mouth for their three squares a day. Full Review
Film Journal International
Nov 21, 2014
Because of the narrative's need for closure, the film bizarrely recasts the lost battle as something uplifting. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Nov 20, 2014

Description by OLDIES.com:

There is so much interest in food today, but there seems to be no interest for the people that pick and handle the food. In America, farm labor has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the nation's most vulnerable people. While the legal restrictions which kept people bound to farms, like slavery, have been abolished, exploitation still exists, ranging from wage theft to modern-day slavery. This exploitation is perpetuated by the corporations at the top of the food chain: supermarkets. Their buying power has kept wages pitifully low and has created a scenario where desperately poor people are willing to put up with anything to keep their jobs.

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  • Sales Rank: 94,363
  • UPC: 818522012841
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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