The Future of Food

Wow, I just watched a disturbing, sad, inspiring, educational, scary, beautiful, motivating film called The Future of Food. It is about the agriculture industry's monopoly on genetically modified food production in our country and around the world, and its effects on our health, family farmers, world hunger, the environment, our children, and our choices. I am even more convinced now that eating locally and organically produced food is the way to save the "future of food" for our children.

Here is the synopsis of the film, from www.thefutureoffood.com:

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.

Please watch the film and then let's go out and grow our own food, visit our local farmers, go to our Farmer's Markets, and really consider what we are supporting (and ingesting) with those dollars.