The Future of Food (2005 DVD)

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On the heels of our enormously popular BuzzFlash premium " Fed Up "

(DVD), we are offering " The Future of Food " -- and it's not very

pretty. In the increasingly " privatized " world of the Busheviks, even

food is becoming patented.

 

 

 

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December 9, 2005

 

The Future of Food (2005 DVD)

 

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On the heels of our enormously popular premium " Fed Up " (DVD), we are

offering " The Future of Food " -- and it's not very pretty. In the

increasingly " privatized " world of the Busheviks, even food is

becoming patented.

 

Can you imagine that a farmer can be successfully sued by an

agri-business company for accidentally growing crops from patented

seeds that have blown onto his field without his knowledge? Believe it

now.

 

And then there's the whole issue of genetically modified foods. Europe

has been making a bit of a fuss about GMO (genetically modified)

products, but not much is happening in the United States, because the

agri-business " K " Street lobbyists have their way in D.C. and in state

legislatures.

 

" The Future of Food " offers a compelling, professional documentary

insight into how the most basic necessity for our survival -- food --

is now being patented. It's truly unbelievable. Will " sleep " be

patented next -- and we will have to pay to go to bed?

 

Here is what the creators of the " The Future of Food " have to say

about their documentary:

 

" The Future Of Food " offers an in-depth investigation into the

disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically

engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. 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

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

by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.

 

Shot on location in the U.S., 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.

 

This is the global corporate revolution that is seizing control of the

most fundamental human need: food.

 

It's a quiet, nefarious development that threatens to hold us all hostage.

 

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