The Future of Food - Trailer

Full film available here: http://www.videoproject.com/fut-973-d.html

There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.

The Future of Food offers an in-depth exploration of several important developments in agriculture today including the diminishment of biodiversity, patenting of life, loss of family farms, consolidation of seed companies and the globalization of our food system. Using genetically engineered crops as a primary cause and result of these new developments, the film delves into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled the worlds grocery stores for the past decade.

From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, The Future of Food gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by new, patented GMO seeds. The film uses animation to explain the process of recombinant DNA technology which allows genetic engineering, the movement of DNA from one species to another. The legal foundations for, and consequences of, patenting life are explored in depth. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are presented as some of the reasons why many people are alarmed by the takeover of our food supply by corporations and their genetically engineered crops. The global battle over agricultural genetic engineering is as fierce now as ever.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and contrasting local trends with global realities, The Future of Food examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the worlds food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis.

Available from: http://www.videoproject.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Agriculture
• GMO
• Patents
• Biodiversity
• Globalization
• Food

[JKerble4]

Even if you don't care about politics,you should care about what our children are eating.Our FDA has decided that we as Americans do not have the right to know what products we are feeding our kids, contain" genetically modified organisms". European products are labeled, and the Japanese government says they will watch the American children for the next 10 years to see if they are safe!!! REALLY!!??

[FireweedFarm]

This movie does a great job of highlighting key aspects of the dominance of corporate agribusiness on our lives. One point it misses (and so do the other food films) is that subsidies do not cause the low farm prices that provide multibillion dollar annual below cost gains (off the books subsidies) as the US looses many billions by exporting our farm commodities at a loss, "export dumping," creating poverty and hunger world wide. Google "Farm Bill Primer" "zspace"

[foodparadisetv]

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