Do you know what you are eating ??
The Future of Food, a groundbreaking documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia released in 2004, distills the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the troubling changes happening in the food system today—genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food—into terms the average person can easily understand. It empowers consumers to understand the consequences of their food choices on our future.
In 2009 as we take note of where we stand and look toward the future, the issues raised in The Future of Food are more pressing than ever. The corporate control of agriculture and the seed supply is meeting more and more resistance from the sustainable food movement that has risen up around the world. Food and agriculture have become central in discussions about climate change, sequestering carbon, health and the preservation of biological diversity.
Factual error: The narrator claims, during the scene showing the Government seed bank, that companies can patent old seeds simply by being first to the patent office. This is not true, the patent office only grants patents to newly discovered or newly created seeds.
Videos courtesy of Lily Films
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