VIDEO: The Future of Food - genetic engineering documentary

[Guest guest]

Just received this e-mail announcement for a local viewing of The Future

of Food. Devotee farmers may want to share this with local

congregations -- as a reminder of why it's better to purchase produce

raised by local devotees rather than purchasing bhoga in the market to

offer Krsna.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

PS: Here's another link

http://www.rawfoodinfo.com/catalog/dvd_futureoffood.html

 

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If you eat food, you need to see */The Future of Food/*

<http://www.thefutureoffood.com/>;

the highly acclaimed, must-see 90-minute documentary

on the dangers of genetic engineering.

 

Film screening *Sunday, February 5th* at *1pm*

in the Morrell Meeting Room of

the *Curtis Memorial Library

* 23 Pleasant Street in Brunswick

followed by a discussion with

an organizer from GE Free Maine.

 

There is a revolution going on 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 investigation

into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically

engineered foods that have quietly filled US grocery store shelves for

the past decade. From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields

of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and

livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The

health implications, government policies and push towards corporate

globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed

about the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food

supply. Shot on location in the US, Canada and Mexico, 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 world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to

large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable

agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.

 

/"The Future of Food provides an excellent overview of the key questions

raised by consumers as they become aware of GM foods . . . [The film]

draws questions to critical attention about food production that need

more public debate."/ -- film review by Thomas J. Hoban, /Nature

Biotechnology/ magazine

 

/"This stylish film is not just for food faddists and nutritionists. It

is a look at something we might not want to see: Monsanto, Roundup and

Roundup-resistant seeds, collectively wreaking havoc on American farmers

and our agricultural neighbors around the world. In the end, this

documentary is an eloquent call to action."/ -- the /Telluride Daily Planet

 

/Sponsored by GE Free Maine, donations accepted.

For more information, contact event coordinator Kate Harris

<kate (AT) earthlovers (DOT) org>, 833-6569

or email info (AT) gefreemaine (DOT) org . http://www.gefreemaine.org

<http://www.gefreemaine.org/>