A friend stopped by this week to watch this amazing documentary. Highly recommended!
If you’re signed up with Netflix, you can watch it online there. For everyone else, you can watch it in its entirety free at SnagFilms.com. You’ll be glad you did so.
It tells of some of the evils of Monsanto relating to genetic modification of food crops and them patenting everything under the sun. It tells how this affects small farmers and the potential consequences of “suicide-gene” technology being introduced into natural botanical settings (as is, scarily enough, already being tested for). It’s not a hippie documentary; it’s commentary from people involved in and/or affected by what amounts to an emerging global food monopoly. It’s absolutely worth knowing about, folks.
I was pissed at Monsanto long before watching this documentary for various reasons (their products being used to spray Colombia in our U.S. “war on drugs” and in Vietnam as Agent Orange, their unfair patenting scheme, their corrupting financial imposition on universities to sway research in their favor, etc.), but this just set me sizzling. Fuck Monsanto! It takes a special kind of evil to provoke moral outrage from the religious and non-religious alike. If this agnostic has ever seen or heard of evil on this planet, Monsanto takes the fucking cake. It damn near renders me speechless.
So, here’s the film synopsis from The Future of Food website:
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 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.
Natural News highly recommends this documentary as well, along with Cinema de Merde (click here to read their detailed review and synopsis, which is cool all unto itself).
Now, seriously, go watch this film.
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