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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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