Food Inc.: See it on an empty stomach

Food Inc., the movie about the food industry, opens today in select cities.

The latest in a spate of environmental documentaries to hit screen, it promises to be the blockbuster of the bunch. The movie’s directed by Robert Kenner, and features two authors who have become the nation’s best-known troubadours for the local and organic food movements, Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation).

So far, it’s getting rave reviews. The most memorably line appeared in Variety: “Food Inc. does for the supermarket what Jaws did for the beach.”

The most consistent bit of advice, though, is this: Don’t, under any circumstances, eat before you see this movie.