The Future of Food
by Deborah Koons Garcia
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Actor: Andrew Kimbrell, Dr. Charles M. Benbrook, Exequiel Ezcurra, Percy Schmeiser, Sara MaamouriDirector: Deborah Koons Garcia
Brand: HART SHARP VIDEO
Cinematographer: John Chater
Composer: Todd Boekelheide
Editor: Vivien Hillgrove
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
DVD Reviews of The Future of Food
DVD Review: accurate and NOT biased
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is very accurate and NOT biased. I wish more people would see this movie and analyze what they are eating, and what they are going to eat in the near future. DVD Review: Wow! Extremely powerful & informative documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie should be considered a model for how documentaries should be made.
This movie tackles the vast and complex issues of genetically modified foods, and focuses on Monsanto as a primary culprit in poisoning our children and our environment.
I tend to get frustrated with documentaries which only focus on large political problems which seem hopeless. However, this film did an excellent job covering all the bases.
The film goes into great detail on the health dangers of genetically modified food, and suggests some foods to avoid (e.g., ALL corn in the United States, including corn syrup and corn byproducts, should be avoided). It also goes into the science of how these huge corporations engineer these foods, without being too complicated. (e.g., did you know that E-coli is actually injected into some seeds? All these genetic modifications are okay to the FDA because there have been so many Monsanto CEO's appointed to the FDA).
The film does a great job interviewing farmers, and discussing the harms of genetically modified foods to farmers, and how huge corporations like Monsanto are putting them out of business. And finally, without being partisan, it goes a little bit into the politics behind our food industry, and compares our lack of oversight & deregulation to other countries.
The point of this movie is actually pretty simple - if we knew what was really in our foods, and what these genetically modified foods are doing to our bodies, our crops, our economy, etc., we would never agree to these toxic foods.
But don't be too alarmed - the film points out how to avoid eating many of the dangerous foods, and what we can do about it. The most important thing you can do is call or write your representative, and urge them to sign the "Food Right to Know Act", which has been introduced to Congress every year since 1999 (but doesn't yet have enough votes). This type of law is already in effect in most other industrialized nations in the world (including Mexico!), but not yet in the United States.
But I personally feel that everyone has a right to know what they're eating!! ...particularly children and seniors, who can get sick (or even die) very easily by eating foods with toxins. Farmers (as a general rule) are very honest and hard working, and most would gladly label their foods. But these multinational corporations will NOT do this on their own - and they are actually preventing farmers from honestly and truthfully labeling their foods (by threat of law suits, and gag orders). These CEO's are too greedy, and must be forced to tell us what's in their food products or we will continue feeding their toxic sludge to our nation's children and never know what's in it!
DVD Review: What happens when food is being "engineered"
Summary: 5 Stars
Monsanto achieved in 1992 that the FDA approved genetically modified foods considering them to be "generally regarded as safe" (GRAS). This is total nonsense. In the first place, you cannot regard genetically modified food as "substantially equivalent" to natural food, for the simple reason that in nature the exchange of genes between different species is impossible. In the second place, genetically modified food IS dangerous. The scientific investigation of Dr. Arpad Pusztai on Monsanto-potatoes produced serious harm to rats. Since this study was financed by Monsanto, he got fired within hours. Genetically modified foods are prohibited in Europe and Japan. In the US, genetically modified foods are not fed to laboratory rats, but directly to the people. If you live in the US, YOU are the guinea pig. This film shows that this food can produce severe allergic reactions.
In the US, there were 0 acres with genetically modified crops in 1980, and they went to 100.000.000 acres in 2003, with soybean, corn, canola and cotton as the major crops. Tests are now being performed on the rest of the living community including fish, livestock, poultry, trees, etc.
Monsanto not only determines what consumers will put into their bodies in the US, since those foods are not labeled, but they also virtually took over all land where corn, canola, soybean and cotton is being produced. They even aggressively pursuit the family farmers who had a tradition of improving their seeds naturally, saving part of them for the next season. Some years ago, when we still lived in a world wherein justice prevailed, when a farmer had cattle, it was his duty to fence them in, in order to prevent them damaging the crops of his neighbors. Capitalism has gone so wild nowadays, and the power of the big corporations has increased so much, that corporations now change this ancient justice system in order to suit their needs. So we now arrived in a situation where inspectors of Monsanto are crossing the whole country to find genetically modified crops on land of farmers who are suffering from this cross pollination. Monsanto then accuses those farmers of the theft of their patent ! I hope I can live long enough to see one day, justice will prevail again, and Monsanto will be prosecuted for the genetic pollution of the farm land of the US and Canada, that is already affecting Mexico also.
This movie also shows that food engineering is not good for us. Genetic modification doesn't produce any nutritional value. Those foods are only good for Monsanto, so they can sell more Roundup. Now, they sell this technology as if "it will help feed the world". Nothing could be further from the truth. There is enough food in the world for everybody already, the point is that the hungry are too poor to buy food. On the other hand, Monsanto puts now a "terminator" gene into their seeds, so that seeds cannot be saved and used for a next harvest. The big question is : what's gone happen when all those "suicide genes" will cross pollinate with other crops around the world ? Will we then be feeding the world ?
The future of food is in our hands. When we buy organics, we don't take care only of our own health, we also show we care for the farmer and the future of the world - for the future of our children. It's up to you.
DVD Review: Disturbing, but great film.
Summary: 5 Stars
Just watched this recently and was left very angry with the whole GM situation. This film does an excellent job showing the bad results of greedy corporations and misguided government policies in relation to GM foods. Highly recommended.DVD Review: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have been confused as to how important it really is to eat organically grown produce, watch this Documentary, you will no longer be confused, everything will be quite clear to you by the time you have finished watching this... you will WANT to have more to say about what you put into your body! We have to let the Farmers know, along with these Monstrous Corporations such as Monsanto, that we support the ORGANIC FARMER 100%, we don't support these large Corporations efforts to be Billionaires at the expense of our health!!! If we don't start supporting these farmers by purchasing our food from the Farmers at either Farmers Markets or Whole Food Stores, Organic Food Coops, or whatever markets you have available to you where you live, clearly, all of us are in trouble!! We need to take measures now that clearly identify how we feel about our food supply, and support these farmers that are generally concerned about the quality of food we consume, the Farmers that have integrity and fight to the end so that you and I have healthy food to eat! ... It's mind boggling to think about what is being done to our Farmers and to our food supply and to the seeds themselves is absolutely horrifying. Our future is hanging by a thread here folks, and it's going to take more than just a few people to change it!!!!!!!!!
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