Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy

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dave B @RT51811019 5d The "experiment" was ridiculous. It was light and fluffy—for the most part. Beer? Non major chains? Korean frien chicken? Jollibee's? See more Michael W @mawilps Aug 19 This fast food documentary was really good. Mo Gilligan and the entire crew did an excellent job on making this documentary about the ups and downs of the fried chicken industry, as well as him doing a Super Size Me challenge, and what happened while he was eating nothing but fried chicken for every meal for 28 days. If you haven't seen this documentary yet, check it out sometime. It's a definite must see. See more Michael D @MichaelX Aug 18 This household is a sucker for Big Food exposés, so Mo Gilligan’s Morgan Spurlock-inspired Netflix doc with him eating nothing but fast food chicken for 28 days, three meals a day, was always going to get a watch. The Spurlock comparison is unavoidable though and not entirely flattering; if you’re going to revive that gimmick, you’d better add something new. Gilligan gained (only?!) three extra kilograms and has some mildly interesting talking heads on screen, but never quite connects the dots into anything revelatory. The doc’s most fascinating thread of the cultural appropriation of fried chicken and its racist history deserved far more airtime. The message, as always, is to eat less meat overall. If abattoirs had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. But then should I be embarrassed to admit this doc had me craving fried chicken? Everything in moderation, as the saying goes... See more Drew M @Stonehands211 Aug 15 Pretty much a British remake of both Super Size Me films. I don’t mind getting these updated documentaries every so often though. This one is very lucky to have such a charismatic host for us to follow a long their journey as he’s quite literally learning most of your information for the first time very apparently as you can see it on his face plainly with every bleak fact he learns about the business of chicken factories. I also liked that they added the horrible working conditions for the workers in these factories as well. The gimmick of the host eating chicken for an entire month is unfortunately just that. A gimmick. I’d say watch the other two Spurlock (RIP) films instead but this is a decent slightly updated version of what he has done in the past. See more Goose R @rodrigug Aug 10 Comedian Mo Gilligan is on a quest to find out why fried chicken is so popular in the UK while also eating just fried chicken for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 28 days Cool documentary that shows almost everything of this industry. The greed. The chemist that design additive food. The ag gag laws that protect animal factories from people going in and documenting their animal atrocities. The harm to the environment and the human rights violations on both workers and poor communities where they setup shop. Health and a little bit of animal exploitation. Sad part is that even after seeing all of that, Mo continues to eat fried chicken which continues to fuel this horrible industry. I wished he would have seen a little bit more of animal activists footage at animal factories and also tried a couple of vegan fried chicken options on his many cities where he visited. Overall. A good documentary , while is very human centric , still shades a little light on this and many other fast food See more Geoff R @RT78320596 Aug 10 Very slickly produced, but somehow he keeps randomly running into known anti-meat activists wherever he goes in the US. Definitely an agenda piece and a blatant rip-off of Super Size Me. I'll keep eating chicken, but not three times a day for a month. See more Read all reviews

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