Trivia: The sinister plot of Chess Chemical, in the movie, to falsify the lab tests to show that the LDF hormone is safe to inject into cows and thus for it to get into the milk supply is based on a true story. Chess Chemical is Monsanto. LDF is the controversial "bovine growth hormone," also known as BGH. BGH was found to cause cancer in the cows that were injected. But the FDA approved it anyhow in the 1990s with its full stamp of approval.
Trivia: During the filming of this movie, Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte did not get along at all. Roberts famously called Nolte "completely disgusting," whereas Nolte retaliated by calling Roberts "not a nice person." The conflict stemmed from their immediate clashing personalities and resulted in a tense production, with reports of the two avoiding scenes together and even using stand-ins to film their interactions.
