
Rotten (2018)★ 7.2/10
- Documentary
Directed by: Lucy Kennedy, Ted Gesing, Bill Kerr, David Mettler, Abigail Harper
Written by: Chris Cechin-De La Rosa, Ted Gesing, Abigail Harper, Lucy Kennedy, Lucy Kennedy
Rotten dives deep into the food production underworld to expose the corruption, waste and real dangers behind your everyday eating habits.
Directed by
Written by
Chris Cechin-De La Rosa
Ted Gesing
Abigail Harper
Lucy Kennedy
Lucy Kennedy
David Mettler
Daniel Ruetenik
Ted SchillingerCast & crew
Latif NasserNarrator
Jonathan WalkerSelf - Head Beekeeper, Walker Honey Farm
Sonny NguyenSelf - Brewer Farms, Manning, SC
Stanley CrawfordSelf - Owner, El Bosque Garlic Farm
Casey CoxSelf - Peanut Farmer, Camilla, Georgia
Leslie LopatofskySelf - Dairy Farmer
Zoila QuirozSelf - Resident, Petorca Province
Laurent GerbaudSelf - Chocolatier
Jaime PayneSelf - Head Chef, Lunchbox Alchemy
José PintoSelf - President, Beta San Miguel
Sonia HartSelf - Flint Resident
Andrew SmithSelf - Author, Terror and Terroir
Brian SmithSelf - Dairy Farmer
Ruchi GuptaSelf - Lurie Children's Hospital & Northwestern University
Lloyd CunniffSelf - Beekeeper
Brian JosephSelf - Assistant Harbor Master, Port of New Bedford
Bill CokerSelf - W.L. Coker Farms, Alcolu, SC
Rosemary CrawfordSelf - Co-owner, El Bosque Garlic Farm
Kaleka Lewis-HarrisSelf - Community Organizer
Jeff CoutelouSelf - Winemaker
Xavier De BuysscherSelf - VP Quality Assurance EMEA, Barry Callebaut
Noel StehlySelf - Owner, Stehly Farms Organics
Gary BracelinSelf - Owner, Tokyo Starfish
Carlos GarcíaSelf - Sugarcane Farmer
Clint WalkerSelf - Owner, Walker Honey Farm
Ernest A. Finney IIISelf - Solicitor, SC Third Judicial Circuit
Andrew NovakovicSelf - Prof. Economics, Cornell University
Ruby ScottSelf - Yorkshire, England
Kristen DavenportSelf - Co-owner, Boxcar Farms
Steve WelchSelf - Commercial Fishing Captain
Suzanne MustacichSelf - Contributing Editor, Wine Spectator
Beau KilmerSelf - Co-Director, RAND Drug Policy Research Center
Elizabeth NussbaumerSelf - Senior Researcher, Food and Water Watch
Francisco GuerreroSelf - Employee, Bet San Miguel
Orla RyanSelf - Journalist & Author
Ruslan MedzhitovSelf - Professor of Immunobiology Yale School of Medicine
Avrum KatzSelf - Co-owner, Boxcar Farms
Richard CanastraSelf - Co-Owner, The Whaling City Seafood Display Action
Norberto GarciaSelf - President, International Honey Exporters Organization
Reid PhiferSelf - Chicken Grower. Marshville, NC
Nick LopatofskySelf - Dairy Farmer
Carl HiaasenSelf - Columnist, Miami Herald
Peter H. GleickBottled and Sold
Henk Jan BeltmanSelf - Chief Chocolate Officer, Tony's Chocolonely
Jim ShanleySelf - Owner, Shanley Farms
Mona ZhangSelf - Cannabis Journalist, Word on the Tree
Vincent SmithSelf - Prof. of Economics, Montana State University
Cathy HuygheSelf - Author, Hungry for Wine
Randy GarrettSelf - Former Sheriff, Clarendon County, SC
Tony SchmitzSelf - General Manager, Smitty Bee Honey
Charles NicholsonSelf - Assoc. Prof. Supply Chain Management, Pennsylvania State University
Scott LangeAttorney
Ted HumeSelf - Attorney
Marianne ScottSelf - Yorkshire, England
Charles FishmanSelf - The Big Thirst
Antonie FountainSelf - Managing Director, VOICE Network
Nan Ping GaoSelf - General Manager, Château La Bastide
Claudia MartinezSelf - Sales Manager, JBR
MarliesSelf - Boerejongens Coffeeshop
Richard WrightSelf - Prosecutor, Leeds, England
Peter BakerSelf - Director, U.S. Ocean Conservation-Northeast, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Doug SchmitzSelf - Owner, Smitty Bee Honey
Benli HuSelf - Sales Director, Huaguang Group
Neil GordonSelf - Cocoa Entrepreneur, CEO, Global Agricultural Exchange. Inc.
Michael GrunwaldSelf - Author, The Swamp
Alejandro HopeSelf - Security Analyst
Jordi GranierSelf - Winegrower
Caspar HermansSelf - Director, Anti-Drug Task Force
Zachary SzakacsSelf - Town Manager, City of Evart
Susan BerfieldSelf - Journalist, Bloomberg Business Week
Sam MasonSelf - Chef, Brooklyn, NY
Ian SaundersSelf - New Bedford Dock Worker
Ruopeng WangSelf - Consultant, Huamei Consulting Co.
Jim OlsonSelf - Attorney
Falko ErnstSelf - Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group
Edward TuddenhamSelf - Attorney
Jean HuilletSelf - Winegrower
Rik ThesingSelf - Chef
Kiendreogo TinkouligaSelf - Cocoa Farmer
Pam ThorntonSelf - Cocoa Trader and Consultant
Ming TsaiSelf - Chef, Boston, MA
Jonathan HareSelf - Science and Research Director, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Duanzhu YangSelf - Retired Garlic Farmer
Gudrun BeckhSelf - Managing Director, Quality Services International
Chaz SelfSelf - Dairy Farmer
Etelle HigonnetSelf - Senior Advisor, Mighty Earth
Rinus BeintemaSelf - Founder, Suver Nuver
Manuel LucateroSelf - Farmer, Tancítaro
Martial BoriesSelf - President, Les Vignerons de L'Occitane
Jim MaturenSelf - Activist
Cassandre TheanoSelf - Int'l Human Rights Lawyer
Andrew BoutrosSelf - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
Seth MacinkoSelf - Professor of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
Sara WalkerSelf - Server, Blue Dragon, Boston
Jiayi DuSelf - Garlic Sourcing Manager
Megan SelfSelf - Dairy Farmer
Mitch EarleywineSelf - Author, Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence
Ana María LucateroSelf - Wife of Manuel Lucatero
Pierre DegrooteSelf - Winemaker & Wine Merchant
Eric Koffi KouassiSelf - Cocoa Farmer
John McClaneSelf - Activist
Charlotte PonticelliSelf - U.S. Department of Labor, Deputy Under Secretary for Int'l Affairs (2007-2009)
Carlos Juliano BarrosSelf - Journalist, Repórter Brasil
Thomas GerkmannSelf - Former Executive, Alfred L. Wolff Inc.
Mingju XuSelf - Garlic Importer, Processor and Wholesaler
Aaron WilliamsSelf - Commercial Fishing Captain
Paul HorsmanSelf - Pub Manager, Easingwold, England
Laurie WolfSelf - Owner, Laurie and MaryJane
Kent Vander KampSelf - Deschutes County Sheriff's Department, OR (as Sgt. Kent Vander Kemp
Manuel NaranjoSelf - Police Chief, Tancítaro
Jesus NuñezSelf - Activist
Philip JakporSelf - Project Officer, Friends of the Earth Nigeria
Wang FangSelf - Winemaker
Charles Konan KouassiSelf - Cocoa Farmer
Andrew PalmerSelf - Investigator, North Yorkshire, England
Adeodato NettoSelf - Chief Strategist, Eleven Financial Research
Scott RankinSelf - Prof. Food Science, University of Wisconsin
Jack BaiSelf - Owner, Hebei Golden Bird Trading Co.
Jane MisslerSelf - Analytical Chemist, Quality Services International
Jake KritzerSelf - Director of Fishery Diagnostics and Design, Environmental Defense Fund
Pilar BarriaSelf - Asst. Professor
Mike InsleySelf - Operations Manager, Pernod-Richard Ningxia
Bosun AdekoyaSelf - Lagos Resident
Eric WendtSelf - Chief Scientific Officer, Green Leaf Lab
Altair RodriguezSelf - Int'l Human Rights Researcher
Romeo Alvares Wohi TemeSelf - Administrative Manager, ECOJAD
Toyin AdetibaSelf - Raw Milk Drinker
Buzz LandonSelf - Owner, Buzz's Bees
Tor BendiksenSelf - Vice President, Reidar's Trawl-Scallop Gear & Marine Supply
Ange AboaSelf - Journalist
Rodrigo MundacaSelf - Water Rights Activist, Petorca Province
Jim BoyceSelf - Founder, Grape Wall of China Blog
Favour AtsouSelf - Lagos Resident
Gillian SaltonSelf - Physician, St. Charles Hospital
Arthur BogasonSelf - Chairman, Icelandic National Association of Small Boat Owners
Duncan CampbellSelf - Public Analyst, West Yorkshire, England
Mark McAfeeSelf - CEO, Organic Pastures
Valeri SeversonSelf - President, Stratchan Apiaries
Pedro MaldonadoSelf - Farmer, Petorca Province
Sule KelaniSelf - Water Merchant
Jean-Frederic Kanga KouassiSelf - Cocoa Farmer
Emma GaoSelf - Winemaker
Mary MartinSelf - Mother of Chris Martin
Ragnar ArnasonSelf - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland
Jay FreemanSelf - Detective, Butte County
Mahmoud A. ElsohlySelf - President and Lab Director, ElSohly Labs
Wang Feng YuSelf - Winemaker
Enrique Lepeley Jr.Self - Farmer, Quillota Province
Ramón DoesSelf - Sugarcane worker, Central Romana
Alhaji GarbaSelf - Chief of Manderegi
Ziakaría Yie'MaSelf - Pisteur
Chris MartinSelf - Sickened by Raw Milk
Pedro De CamargoSelf - Vice President, Sociedade Rural Brasileira
Charles SmithSelf - U.S. Coast Guard
Todd KlossSelf - Deschutes County Sheriff's Department, OR
Dexter LehtinenSelf - U.S. Attorney in South Florida
Wouilli MadiSelf - Co-op Technical Director, SCOOPS-C.A.B.G.B.
Karen AoSelf - Wine Consultant
Esther HussainiSelf - Manderegi Community Member
Raquel LandimSelf - Journalist, Folha de São Paulo
Eric BirklandSelf - New Bedford Resident
Cameron YeeSelf - Founder and Owner, Lunchbox Alchemy
Aminata BambaSelf - Head of Sustainability, ECOOKIM
Ma HuiqinSelf - China Agricultural University
Adiza MusaSelf - Manderegi Community Member
Thomas Van LintEverglades Foundation
Lucia CimolinSelf - Associação dos Avicultores do Sul Catarinense
Tom WilliamsSelf - Commercial Fishing Vessel Owner
Burl BrysonSelf - CEO, Lunchbox Alchemy
Shi-XiaSelf - Grape Picker
Muhammad KabirSelf - Community member, Manderegi Village
Peter B. JohnsonSelf - Former Executive, Euromar Commodities GmbH
Andrè TartarêSelf - Contract Chicken Farmer
Kale GraySelf - Owner, Tokyo Starfish
Eugénie LagosSelf - President of the Women Association, ECOJAD
Zhang YanzhiSelf - Winemaker
David PrestonSelf - Captains for Clean Water
Muminu BadmusSelf - Managing Director, Lagos Water Corporation
Valtair Da SilvaSelf - Contract Chicken Grower
Chris WittmanSelf - Co-Founder, Captains for Clean Water
Debra McCartySelf - Philadelphia Water Commissioner
Wim DebedtsSelf - Sales Director, Benelux & Nordics, Barry Callebaut
Luc RoomsSelf - Senior Quality Assurance Manager, Herself - Sales Director, Benelux & Nordics, Barry Callebaut
Abey JohnSelf - Plant Manager, Baxter Water Treatment Plant
Nathan BoggsSelf - Fili-West Farms, Vance, SC
Joseph-Olivier BileySelf - CEO, WeFly Agri
Axel EmmamuelSelf - Chocolatier, Le Chocolatier Ivoirien
Bernadette KouadioSelf - Co-op Member, COOPBEL
Louis PasteurSelf