New Media Film Festival: Interview with Food Fight Documentary Producer Alan Siegel (November Films)

An Interview by Jay Randy Gordon with Food Fight Documentary Producer Alan Siegel (November Films) at the 2011 New Media Film Festival.

When we walk into a supermarket, we assume we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system has been co-operated by corporate forces whose interest does not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy, and sustainably-produced food. Fortunately, for America, an alternative emerged from the counter culture of California in the late 1960's and early 1970's, where a group of political, anti-corporate protesters - led by Alice Waters - voiced dissent by creating a food chain outside of the conventional system. The unintended result was a birth of a vital-local-sustainable-organic food movement, which has brought back taste and varitey to our tables. FOOD FIGHT is a fascinating look at how American Agriculture policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter revolution against big agribusiness.

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