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| The Future of Food | 
| Director: Deborah Koons Garcia
Actors: Exequiel Ezcurra, Sara Maamouri, Percy Schmeiser, Andrew Kimbrell, Dr. Charles M. Benbrook
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 12246
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 88 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D670402D
UPC: 829567040225
EAN: 0829567040225
ASIN: B000V5IOWK
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: November 13, 2007
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Product Description
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 about 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. The Future of Food reveals that 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.System Requirements:Running Time: 88 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 829567040225
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 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY!!!!!!!!! September 22, 2008
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!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE SEE THIS MOVIE, RENT IT, WHATEVER. OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT August 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Americans, for the most part, don't know what they're eating. Open your eyes! see this film and others like it
Eye-opening August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Everyone who lives and eats in the United States should see this movie and help save the future of our food.
Companies will control all of the food & health issues will increase June 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Companies control all food, June 6, 2008
By Lena "TouchRemedy.com" (Nassau County, NY) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)
I've noticed when I eat non-organic produce, upon slicing it open, my fingers where the juices get on itch tremendously. Non-organic produce sometimes make me feel more tired or irritable almost as bad as junk foods. Organic food always increases my energy, my mood, etc.
Here are some points I've jotted down quick (excuse the short-hand, I didn't have any intention to review until after the fact) from this film in the order of which is was presented:
Non-organic food has pesticides in it, worms & insects die when they eat it. We all know what kills insects will also kill us, just at a slower rate.
Monsanto put a patent on genes, so it owns it if it goes into plants, perhaps animals & who knows the future.
Normal organic seeds can now be patent as well, whoever gets there first. Farmers are no longer able to share, trade them like they did in the past thousands of years, saving seeds for the future years from their crops. This will cost farmers more. Companies now control the food.
Many years ago there were hundreds of different kids of apples, etc. but a large percentage of these different varieties have died out to only a few.
Farmers used to have many different kinds of crops in small amounts so that if there was a blight, drought, etc. all their crops would not be lost. But due to farming styles now, they only have one type & the economic devastation to that farmer is total.
Monsanto does stealth tests on farmer's land trying to find out if there are ANY GMO plants even if only a handful. If found any, they sue. The courts ruled in favor of Monsanto even if it was proven the GMO crops got there by birds, animals or wind. Many farmers had to destroy ALL their seeds, even the non-GMO ones. Anytime farmers did not want to fight, they had to pay a settlement & were not allowed to talk about the details.
In order to make GMO plants, they have to get the genes in there using VIRUSES & BACTERIAL, mostly E. COLI to invade the plant cells to cause tumors in the plants or electricity to create holes or even use gold laced with viruses.
There are ANTI-BIOTIC gene markers in pants.
The first Genetically-Modified Organisms produced sold in markets for humans were Flavor-saver tomatoes which consumers disliked the taste & was found to cause tumors in rats.
IN the US, the use of GM organisms is not needed to be labeled at all unlike all the European Union countries.
Major GM ingredients in packaged foods include corn syrup (causes diabetes & increased hunger) & soy lecithin (natural is from egg, soy type goes through a chemical process.)
Quayle gave Monsanto the same oversight as natural seeds/crops which is almost none. Ashcroft helped Monsanto win lawsuits. The FDA is run by many Monsanto executives.
Mexico runs smaller race crops near wild plants to keep their corn as viable & help the evolutionary process which has worked in keeping their crops from normal disease, etc. issues. They refuse to use GMO corn, but US seeds are half the price of non-GM corn due to agricultural subsidiaries.
The agriculture subsidiaries Bush signed in years ago mostly only helped to raise soy, wheat, corn & cotton the most GM crops.
60% of food is now GM.
Rats have depressed immune systems & growths from GM potatoes.
40% of the Monarch butterfly caterpillars died when fed BT corn.
There are many GM produce in the market: corn, rice, soybeans, tomatoes, rape seed, broccoli, sugar beets, barley, sunflower, pepper, etc.
The BREAST CANCER GENE has been patentent so that universities & other scientists looking for a cure have to pay a large fee to do their studies.
80% of the beef in the US is controlled by four companies.
There are only about four seed companies.
6 companies control almost all the retail food sold today, only one in the US - Wal-Mart.
Crops are now being tested that have the suicide gene - so that they can only be used one time, one year & the seeds from those crops are sterile and farmer would have to buy more seed for each planting. The US government owns that patent.
Certain GM plants actually NEED pesticides in order to make it grow at all.
Monsanto used the idea of starving people to say it will increase food supply to starving people since it will increase crop yields. This has not been proven to help starving, second, the crops were never tested at all in less ideal conditions like drought, disease, etc. Some GM plants actually has 25% less roots which means it would not survive drought as well as organic plants.
The first standards/guideliness that the US government listed for a product or plant to be considered ORGANIC included: irradiation, sewage sludge & genetically modified organisms.
What can you do?
Buy as much organic food as you can afford, it tastes better & will keep you healthier avoiding doctors & high cost drugs in the process. Supports your local farmers or add into a Community Supported Agriculture subscription where they grow smaller plots of many different kinds of produce & deliver to you baskets of produce on a weekly or monthly basis.
I read in the newspapers a couple of years ago of peas spliced with beans genetically & given to rats. Almost all developed tumors & other digestive issues & conditions.
There has also been studies that proven that pesticides cause cancer & that organic plants have 40% more anti-oxidants then ones that have been sprayed with pesticides.
Painless way to learn the painful truth May 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great film that tells us what we need to know about the mess our food supply is in... and how to get out.
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