If you get a chance to see "Food, Inc." see it. Along with so many other crises in our world, the food supply is seriously threatened by corporate greed.
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"Food, Inc."-- Film Recommendation (3 posts)
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Posted 15 years ago #
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That's a subject that you will find us concerned about, but it seems that it's off the radar for a good majority of the politically active mainstream.
Peak Oil for instance has dire implications for the food supply based on global agriculture's dependence upon petroleum based fertilizers.
And we don't hear many people expressing concerns about the potential for mass starvation.
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You can go here to see that Corporate America views this film as a threat:
safefoodinc.org
They openly link to the American Council on Science and Health (funded by almost every big food, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer), Monsanto and most of the large meat organizations. The following two quotes really were interesting because that do not include oil into the equation. If you do, whose argument are they making?
“We’ve gotten so good at growing food that we’ve gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we’d like to go back to what we think is a more natural way. But I’m afraid we can’t, in part, because there are just too many of us in this world. If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn’t support the earth’s current population — maybe half.†-- Dr. Nina Fedoroff, member, National Academy of Sciences, administrator of the Agency for International Development science and technology advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the New York Times.
"We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops. We accept exactly the same technology (as GM food) in medicine, and yet in producing food we want to go back to the 19th Century. We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production." – Dr. Nina Fedoroff, member, National Academy of Sciences, administrator of the Agency for International Development, science and technology advisory to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the BBC,
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