In Defense of Food

In Defense of Food

Why is it so difficult to eat right?

Directed by Michael Schwarz

Produced by KQED

2015117 min7.5 / 10

A thoughtful, evidence-based documentary that diagnoses the failures of modern industrial food systems while offering practical, hopeful solutions for healthier eating.

In Defense of Food tackles a question more and more people around the world have been asking: What should I eat to be healthy? Based on award-winning journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, the program explores how the modern diet has been making us sick and what we can do to change it.

Questions people ask

  • Is In Defense of Food violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.

  • Is In Defense of Food easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Does In Defense of Food end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is In Defense of Food scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is In Defense of Food sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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87/ 100

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Rarity91

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Surprise81

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Love88

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