The hard-hitting documentary that Fast Food Nation should have been but wasn’t, Robert Kenner’s stomach-churning exposé of the US food industry is scary enough to turn Ronald McDonald into a vegan.

Shining an unforgiving spotlight on the corporations who decide what America eats, it’s a chilling portrait of how big agribusiness runs roughshod over animal and worker rights, public safety and toothless regulatory bodies.

It’s little wonder Uncle Sam has widespread obesity, a diabetes epidemic and enough E. Coli to wipe out the Netherlands.

Admittedly the film’s States-centric focus rather makes this feel like somebody else’s problem, while the empower-yourself coda is becoming a tediously predictable cliché in this type of activist cinema (“Plant a garden – even a small one!” is one of several patronising messages flashed before the end credits).

But if you care an✨ything about what goes down your throat, Food,💜 Inc. can’t help being food for thought.