Watching the new Netflix video Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food might be a terrifying experience if you live in a country where the sweat that runs down the arm of the golgappa bhaiya is considered to be a crucial street food ingredient. In spite of the lack of any jump scares, it is undoubtedly the most frightful film this year.

The film emphasizes the many ways that regular food can not only bring serious disease, but in some cases, tragic death. It is entirely focused on the dangers of being a consumer in the United States, which is allegedly a country with more stringent rules than ours. In the most heartbreaking way possible, director Stephanie Soechtig opens with a middle-aged guy sobbing as he remembers losing his infant to an E. coli outbreak brought on by tainted hamburgers in the early 1990s.

The tragedy, also known as the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak of 1992–1993, highlighted the various ways in which consuming fast food can be fatal. Children under the age of 10 made up the majority of the victims of this outbreak, which was brought on by the unlawful undercooking of beef patties. An excruciating beginning sets the tone for the entire film's hour and fifteen minutes of fury. An important character in the movie is a lawyer by the name of Bill Marler, who rose to prominence in the fight for food safety after winning a $15 million settlement for his client during the Jack in the Box outbreak.

Poisoned deserves praise for including a wide range of viewpoints from diverse sectors, including science, policy,... It also has a couple of whistleblowers who disclose horrifying information about the workings of specific poultry farms and peanut plants. Indeed, even peanuts can be harmful. You can wash your food as well as you like, but how can you ever be certain that the irrigation water being used by farmers isn't tainted with animal waste? No.