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Food, Inc.  
April 11, 2010 on CBC's The Passionate Eye - (video 1:33:16)
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    How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? Though our food appears the same - a tomato still looks like a tomato - it has been radically transformed.

    Food Inc., illustrates the dangers of a food system controlled by powerful criticize how our food is made. The film reveals how complicated and compromised the once simple process of growing crops and raising livestock to feed ourselves and our families has become. But, it also reminds us that despite what appears to be at times a hopeless situation, each of us still has the ability to vote on this issue every day - at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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    Gary Hirshberg is chairman, President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm an organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He has been with the company since 1983. Hirshberg conceived and co-created O'Natural's an organic restaurant chain. (Bio)

    Michael Pollan     is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael Pollan is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. (PBS interview)

    Troy Roush     a farmer, appeared in Food, Inc. concerning his Legal fight with Monsanto centered on patent infringement. Once big on biotech was wrongly accused of saving seed. Since then he has begun to see the way the system is devastating traditional farming. In addition, he suggested the GMOs are not healthy and stated that patented plants have "torn apart rural communities". (PBS interview)

    Joel F. Salatin     is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants. (Bio)

    Eric Schlosser     is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, such as his books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew On This. A number of critics have compared his work to the books and essay of Upton Sinclair, a pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. (PBS interview)
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    The world according to Monsanto 



    Genetically Modified Environment Is Controlling Our Food... This is a thought-provoking, 109-minute documentary, first shown in 2008 in Europe, and is a must see for anyone concerned about the future of food. French documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin has thoroughly researched her subject, conducting a three-year investigation in North and South America, Europe and Asia. It dealt a severe blow to the credibility of US based Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and the provider of the seed technology for 90 percent of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops. The French documentary, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals. A film you won't see on American television. The Gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. After seeing “The world according to Monsanto”, Greenpeace International campaigner Geert Ritsema said: “Mrs. Robin should be congratulated for revealing the sinister practices of the world’s leading producer of genetically engineered seeds. Her film is alarming and should be a call to action for everybody who cares about the quality of our food and a healthy future for our planet."

     Here Farmer's rejections to GMOs
    Photo Credit: (Greenpeace.org) 
    Aerial view of a crop circle made by local farmers and Greenpeace  volunteers in Isabela province, 300 km northeast of Manila. The crop  circle, with a slash over the letter 'M' symbolizes farmer's rejection  of genetically-modified Bt corn crops from Monsanto corporation.  Monsanto has silenced academics, journalists and anyone who ...
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