INDEPENDENT LENS | Filmocracy Mashup Contest | PBS

Do you care about what you eat and where your food comes from? Are you tired of our fast food nation? Filmocracy invites you to make a statement about the politics of food.

It's easy! Make a short film using clips from the Independent Lens film KING CORN and footage from Getty Images. You can even upload your own clips, and mix it all up with the Eyespot online editing tool. Win cash, prizes and the chance to have your short screened across the U.S.

Contest dates: March 7 - May 30, 2008. Find out more at: http://www.pbs.org/filmocracy

KING CORN premieres on Independent Lens on PBS, April 15. Check broadcast listings at: http://www.pbs.org/kingcorn

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[havalaffonme]

con't: Part 4:

Every dollar we spend is a "VOTE." Buy organic or biodiverse, buy local, or eat wild or grow your own, eat in-season, shop the perimeter of the grocery store, shop farmer's markets. Eat plants, lots of greens, fruits, vegetables, nuts & seeds ... and your body will thank you ... and so will the planet. Now start filming!

[havalaffonme]

Con't: Part 3: Or, try a raw diet for an experiment. It's "radical" (in comparison with the standard American diet), but it's NORMAL (compared to how most species in nature eat). Raw vegan diets provide for easier digestion; they keep blood pressure and cholesterol low and have a positive effect on most health concerns.

[havalaffonme]

Part 1: Great idea! For background material, watch "The Future of Food," "Supersize Me," and any video clip or book by Michael Pollan. Investigate the raw food movement and Natural Hygiene. Corporate food suppliers want to feed us "frankenfood" and we wonder why we have disease. The price of a $0.99 burger may be low, but the COST is high, as reflected in health, obesity, environmental concerns, and also karma. Lots of greed, pain and suffering goes into every bite of that "cheap" burger.

[havalaffonme]

con't: Part 2: Michael Pollan advises: Eat real food, instead of "edible food-like substances." Eat small amounts. Eat plants, especially leaves. Don't eat anything that has a long shelf-life (If it won't rot, it's not "alive" enough to contribute to life and is useless as food). Stay away from corn and soy (and the multitude of overly-processed products that contain these 2 dominant crops, e.g., high-fructose corn syrup). Much of the corn and soy is GMO (genetically modified /frankenfood).

[haobio]

Let's go to the dark side of making food.