To Dye For: The Documentary

Both from personal experience and from the scientific research to back it up, there's just too much evidence to ignore. Synthetic dyes are harming us, and especially our children on so many levels. Here's the other point-even if they weren't harming us (though the evidence says differently), they certainly aren't helping us. So why are these poisons and carcinogens being put into our food? It's all a money grab, and unless we speak up and speak louder than the food industry, we will never make a change. This documentary validates the experiences of thousands of family across the nation, and it is well put together, moves at a great pace, and is incredibly inspirational. It's time to follow the calls to action and make a change.

As a european finance professional, my mind went to warren buffet watching this. Knowing some of his holdings in staple US pantry items, i can't understand the absolute disregard for the end customer. These chemicals are known to be harmful, and have been for decades, yet industrial lobbies are actively fighting to keep using them, knowing full well it's detrimental to the health of customers.

It's mind blowing to me, the level of carelessness and evil required as a company exec to go out of your way to fight to keep using cancer causing chemicals so your food can be brightly coloured. Insane.

I loved the film! I watch a lot of documentaries and this one was really well made, well thought out and intentional. I am a functional health practitioner, a mom of four children, and at least one of those has a severe food dye sensitivity. I could relate to so much of the film. I really appreciate the producers putting this out! Its truly a gift to our population. So many people don't realize that other countries have banned artifical food dyes. Education is a huge step towards change, and this film does just that! If your child has confusing or unexplained behavioral issues, I highly recommend that you watch this film!

As a parent of a child who was hard to figure out, a child who was constantly inconsistent. This film hit the nail on the head! So many people thought we were crazy until they saw the change. It's unbelievable what they allow us to ingest! I love how simply put everything in the film was. It's all so easy to understand and just very informative. My seven year old wanted to watch it and was excited to know that he's not alone in how synthetic dyes make him feel. I would suggest watching it first before letting your child see it, just so you are aware of the topics to discuss. I have watched it several times now and it's so comforting to know my family isn't alone.

This doc does a decent job of getting the info out there that there are artificial dyes that we should be aware of. It even starts naming them in the first few minutes and we also get a brief history of them and the FDA.

Then is somehow just stops and goes into story mode. One mother's story after another and dropping tid bits from academics and is mostly filler for the 94 minutes of running time.

You can easily skip through the stories and there is no data to back up anything. There is a blindfolded taste test which means nothing.

The bottom line is that other countries have banned some of these chemicals from food while the US has not. In the end it asks us to call/write politicians who are lobbied by the massive food companies, which has been mostly futile since the 1960's when some of these chemicals were created.

A poor documentary from a husband and wife team who are first time film makers.

The 50 reviews are all from 1 review accounts giving it 10 stars. If only the film makers put the same effort into making their film as they did creating fake profiles maybe this would have turned out better. 3/10 for the first 5 minutes. Nothing new after that.