SEE THIS FILM!
Rent it or buy it. Better yet, buy extra copies and share them with your friends, your congressmen, and your senators.
If we don’t act quickly, if Americans don’t take a stand, exercising the basic precepts of our government—of the people, by the people, for the people —there may be no future of food. This film forces you to face the truth about the unholy alliance of big business and politics. The result is an all too real doomsday scenario of our own making.
The Future of Food first discusses the enormous diversity of foods, of the thousands of varieties of rice, apples, and potatoes, which were grown in the 19th century. It then skims over the dangers of monocropping, merely mentioning the potato blight and famine that hit Ireland and killed a million people and how that tragedy would have been avoided had the farmers diversified the crops instead of planting only two or three kinds of potatoes. The film quickly jumps to the greatest threat to our food supply—genetically modified foods.
The outcry against genetically modified foods is not a religion-based admonition against gene splicing. It is a fact-based, fear-based plea to safeguard our food supply. The startling truth is that a few major corporations are experimenting with our food supply—and contaminating our food supply—with genetically altered plants and animals. American men, women, and children are their test subjects and our government is letting them get away with it.
The film tells us the FDA is doing nothing to protect us. “Since GMOs were considered substantially equivalent to regular food they fall into the GRAS or ‘generally recognized as safe category’ and the government does not require testing or labeling.”
And yet many FDA scientists wrote letters warning that the foods should be tested. One study done in Great Britain of GMO potatoes fed to rats yielded frightening results, which included third generation sterility. Another 
study showed the first GMO food, a tomato, produced stomach lesions in mice but was put on the market anyway. How does a genetically modified food, like a plant that has cells from a fish imbedded in its genes by means of a virus or bacteria, or a corn that has a pesticide inside its DNA, receive a pass from testing by being deemed “substantially equivalent to regular food?” How can the same company claim these genetically modified foods to be so unique, they are able to maintain patents, for the first time in history owning life?
Cross contamination of our food supply is one horrifying result of this experiment. The legal battles farmers are losing across the United States and Canada are shocking. When a farmer’s crop and ensuing seed supply becomes contaminated with GMO seeds through wind, bird droppings, or whatever means, rather than the GMO company being held liable for contaminating an organic or non-GMO crop, the farmer is held liable for using patented seed without payment. Has the world gone crazy? One would think so, until a little digging shows you how many policy makers move back and forth from power positions in government to high level and high paying positions in these same corporations. Many others still in government have received substantial campaign contributions from them.
Unfortunately, Barack Obama’s choice for Secretary of Agriculture, former governor Tom Vilsack, is a strong proponent of genetically engineered crops. Googling his name immediately links him with Monsanto, with numerous links to articles that mention his many rides on Monsanto’s corporate jets while Governor of Iowa.
The Future of Food is not a new film. It was released in 2004. But as we have said before, OLM reviews the best films from time to time, regardless of their release dates.
The Future of Food is available through Netflix and other DVD rental outlets, is sold in Whole Foods and other health food stores, is available for purchase on the web (in 6 different languages), and can be downloaded directly from the website. Currently is it also available for viewing on Hulu. See this film. Our future and our children’s future are dependent on our actions today. www.thefutureoffood.com
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