Eric Schlosser

The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and technology, but often have negative side effects. The answer that the companies have come up with is to throw more science at the problems to bandage the issues but not the root causes. The global food supply may be in crisis with lack of biodiversity, but can be changed on the demand side of the equation. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

In the 1890s, Daniel Plainview, a struggling silver miner, finds his true wealth in petroleum extraction while taking the orphaned child, H.W., as his own for a valuable family man image. In 1911, Plainview gets a tip on a valuable supply on the struggling Sunday family ranch in the impoverished Little Boston, California. In his quest to acquire the property, Plainview meets the sanctimonious Eli Sunday, the young reverend of the local church with his own ambitions for his diocese and the profit from the oil. As the oil wells begin, an escalating conflict arises between exploiters of many kinds while Plainview's canny ruthlessness gradually sinks into a slowly mounting malevolent madness. In doing so, it begins to drive every emotional bond away that all the wealth he gains can never replace. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

In a career spanning five decades, Tommy Chong has twice had the dubious honor of serving as a cultural barometer for troubled times. Most famously, he was one half Cheech and Chong, the satirical, pot-smoking Grammy-winning comedy duo whose humor captured the turned on, tuned out and far-too-stoned-to-really-care zeitgeist of the comfortably numb 1970s. Then in May 2003, at a time when one would think the justice department would have had it hands full fighting George W. Bush's war on terror, the 65-year-old Chong came to symbolize a national nightmare: the law-abiding businessman victimized by a paranoid government on a misguided moral crusade against its own citizens. In the early morning hours of February 24, a 10-man SWAT team, helicopters and all, descended on Chong's Pacific Palisades home as part of "Operation Pipe Dreams," a massive search-and-seizure offensive aimed at taking down purveyors of drug paraphernalia. In addition to Chong's home, the feds also raided the headquarters of Chong Glass, seizing the entire stock of pipes, bongs and related paraphernalia Chong had been selling over the Internet. Chong and his staff, which included his son, Paris Chong, had been very careful not to ship any of their products to states where selling such smoking paraphernalia was prohibited by law, but that didn't stop Mary Beth Buchanan — an ambitious U.S. attorney from Pennsylvania whose career got a boost when United flight 93 crashed in her district — from trying to further her career by busting a celebrity. Through methods that could only be called entrapment, Buchanan's team spent eight months badgering Chong Glass into shipping a huge order of pipes to Beaver Falls, Penn. Chong Glass finally relented, and the upshot of this ridiculous tale is that Tommy Chong wound up spending nine months in a minimum security prison outside of Bakersfield, Calif. Filmmaker Josh Gilbert followed Chong and his wife, Shelby, through the weeks leading up to Chong's incarceration and tells this story with as much sobriety as once can muster in the face of such Kafka-esque absurdity. Gilbert also reconstructs Chong's childhood as an Asian-American teenager in the Pacific Northwest, his early career as a Motown recording artist — Tommy and the Vancouvers, anyone? — and the early days of performing with Cheech Marin in a Vancouver strip club, where together they created a kind of underground comedy-burlesque out of sheer necessity. Throughout his ordeal, Chong maintains an almost Zen-like calm, and the irony of the whole situation is that in trying to make an example out of Tommy Chong, the U.S. Justice Department might have only succeeded in turning him into a folk hero. Moreover, they've helped make pot smoking once again seem a perfectly valid response to such troubling times. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey's food restaurant chain's Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the "Big One" the hamburger best seller of Mickey's. An independent research reports the presence of cow's feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey's, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers that the mass production system involves from the temp workers like Amber (Ashley Jonhson), to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crush in the mincing machine, but all our society. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.