OTACNet screening The Future of Food
Screening :- the acclaimed film The Future of Food this Tuesday night at Bondi Junction courtesy of the OTACNET (Organic Traders' and Consumers' Network)
The Future of Food, a brilliant must-see documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia, is a chilling investigation into the Genetically Engineered foods that have quietly filled the grocery store shelves, and the multinational corporations that are seeking to control the worlds food system.
When: Tuesday April 11th, 7 p.m.
Where: The Intuitive Well, 1st Floor, 70 Bronte Road, Bondi Junction, NSW
Cost: $15 per person
Tickets can be ordered by calling OTACNet on 02 9557 0500.
Tickets will also be available CASH ONLY at the door as long as you have replied.
Space is limited...
RSVP to Helen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 02 9557 0500
Or Catriona Macmillan Tuesday after 3 pm 0402 404 361
www.otacnet.com.au
The Future of Food reveals
· How agriculture becomes industry
· How the fertilisers, chemical pesticides and mono-cropping practices of the green revolution grew out of WWll chemical weapons research,
· And how traditional farming methods have become bowed, cowed, threatened and ultimately uneconomical under the onslaught of methods employed by the industrial farming giants.
Director Deborah Koons-Garcia leads carefully from one point to the next, showing how the chemical companies succeeded first in patenting their own GMO seeds, and then patenting a huge number of crop seeds, a strategy which allowed them to move stealthily toward the end-game without ever requiring the peoples vote, or passing their activities before Congress.
Her 90-minute documentary feels more educational than polemic - though it expresses a strong point of view against letting new life forms loose on the land without long-term testing of the health effects and real government controls, especially labelling of foods. San Francisco Chronicle
By inserting genetic material from one organism into the permanent genetic code of another, biotechnologists have engineered potatoes with bacteria genes, tomatoes with flounder genes, corn with pesticide genes, and suicide seeds created with terminator technology that produce sterile and useless seed at harvest. In the millions of open acres they are sown in around the world, these genetically engineered plants release pollen into the environment where -- unlike their genetically engineered pharmaceutical counterparts created and contained in labs -- they can and have reproduced and infected organic and conventional crops resulting in immeasurable global bio-pollution.
The implications for our health, for bio-diversity that underwrites it, and diversification of global wealth are profoundly affected by such cavalier behaviour.
biotech companies have gone into government seed banks and patented both GMO and non-GMO plants worldwide, including plants that have evolved in nature, or have been naturally hybridised, and belong to the commons. If this trend continues, impoverished countries will have to pay to use the plants that originated in their countries.
- From the book, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods Youre Eating, by Jeffrey M. Smith
In 1990 the corporate farming giant Monsanto, successfully challenged Percy Shmeiser, an independent farmer, when their patented, genetically modified canola seed was found to have germinated in his fields.
Though Shmeiser lost the case, it thrust into the public arena the debate about the ethical and environmental significance of genetic modification of food crops, seed patenting, and the activities of effects of industrial farming methods.
Deborah Koons Garcia, is an award-winning, graduate film-maker with a long career as a documentary film-maker and lives in California, USA. She won the prestigious Cine Golden Eagle and a Gold Medal from the John Muir Medical Film Festival, among other awards, for her documentary All About Babies, narrated by Jane Alexander. Read more about The Future of Food at her site: www.lilyfilms.com
Deborah is the widow of the late Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the cult band, the Grateful Dead.
If you eat food, you should be informed about genetic engineering
DISCUSSION AFTERWARDS !!!!
