Fed Up!

Story

Synopsis

Nominated for an Environmental Media Award, this eye-opening documentary explores the United States' food production system from the organic farming of the Green Movement to the genetically engineered food of the Biotech Revolution. Through fascinating archival footage and interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, Fed Up! provides a detailed and sometimes disturbing overview of contemporary food production. About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not labeled. The biotechnology industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope for feeding the world and saving the environment. Family farmers are disappearing at an astonishing rate as people continue to go hungry both here and abroad. Toxic agricultural chemicals continue to poison our air, food and water and put farm workers in serious danger. What's a person to do?

Language

English

Release date

1 January 2002

Ensemble

Cast

• Britt Bailey

  Herself - Center for Ethics and Toxics

• Brent Blackwelder

  Himself - Friends of the Earth, USA

• Beth Burroughs

  Herself - Executive Director, The Edmonds Institute

• Ignacio Chapela

  Himself - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

• Sue Markland Day

  Herself - President, Bay Area Bioscience Center

• Katie Dwight

  Herself - Purisima Greens Farm

• Dan Glickman

  Himself - US Secretary of Agriculture (voice)

• Diane Joy Goodman

  Herself - Farm Box Project Consulting

• Simon Harris

  Himself - Organic Consumers Association

• Karen Heisler

  Herself - Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture Initiative Program

• Susanne L. Huttner

  Herself - Director, Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, University of California

• Tony Juniper

  Himself - Friends of the Earth, England