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{{Infobox Film
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| caption = DVD cover of ''The Future of Food'
| director = [[Deborah Koons Garcia]]
| writer = Deborah Koons Garcia
| producer = Deborah Koons Garcia<br>Catherine Butler
| distributor = Lily Films
| released = May 30, 2004
| runtime = 88 minutes
| country = [[United States]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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{{Infobox film
'''''The Future of Food''''' is a 2004 American [[documentary film]] which describes an investigation into unlabeled, patented, [[Genetic engineering|genetically engineered]] foods that have been sold in grocery stores in the [[United States]] for the past decade. In addition to the US, there is a focus on [[Canada]] and [[Mexico]].
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| narrator = Sara Maamouri
| music = [[Todd Boekelheide]]
| cinematography = John Chater
| editing = Vivien Hillgrove
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'''''The Future of Food''''' is a 2004 American [[documentary film]] written and directed by [[Jerry Garcia#Death|Deborah Koons Garcia]] to describe an investigation into unlabeled, patented, [[Genetically modified organism|genetically engineered]] foods sold in grocery stores in the [[United States]] for the past decade. In addition to the US, there is a focus on [[Canada]] and [[Mexico]].<ref name="The New York Times 09-14-04"/><ref name="Variety 01-03-05"/><ref name="San Francisco Chronicle 09-30-05"/><ref name="Slant 09-01-05">{{cite news|last1=Gonzales|first1=Ed|title=The Future of Food|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-future-of-food|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[Slant (magazine)|Slant]]|date=1 September 2005}}</ref><ref name="AV Club 09-14-05">{{cite news|last1=Robinson|first1=Tasha|title=The Future Of Food|url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/40641|accessdate=29 December 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202162135/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/40641|archivedate=2 December 2008|publisher=[[AV Club]]|date=14 September 2005}}</ref><ref name="The Georgia Straight 12-01-05"/><ref name="Chemical & Engineering News 03-19-05"/><ref name="Book 1"/>
It voices the opinions of farmers in disagreement with the food industry, and details the impacts on their lives and livelihoods from this new technology, and the market and political forces that are changing what people eat. The farmers state that they are held legally responsible for their crops being invaded by "company-owned" genes. The film generally opposes the patenting of living organisms, and describes the disappearance of traditional cultural practices.


==Synopsis==
The film criticizes the cost of a globalised food industry on human lives around the world. It states that international companies are gradually driving farmers off their land in many countries, that [[monoculture]] farming might lead to global dependence of the human race on food corporations, and that there is an increased risk of [[Ecological crisis|ecological disasters]] caused by a reduction of [[Biodiversity|biological diversity]]. For example, the local varieties of Mexican corn are being replaced by subsidized US corn.
The film voices opinions of farmers in disagreement with the food industry, and details the impacts on their lives and livelihoods from this new technology, and the market and political forces that are changing what people eat. The farmers state that they are held legally responsible for their crops being invaded by "company-owned" genes. The film generally opposes the patenting of living organisms, and describes the disappearance of traditional cultural practices.


It also criticizes the cost of a globalized food industry on human lives around the world. It states that international companies are gradually driving farmers off their land in many countries, that [[monoculture]] farming might lead to global dependence of the human race on food corporations, and that there is an increased risk of [[Ecological crisis|ecological disasters]] caused by a reduction of [[Biodiversity|biological diversity]]. For example, the local varieties of Mexican corn are being replaced by subsidized US corn.
It describes a fear of major losses to local food systems and states that these gene banks will no longer be available to save global industrial agriculture when a new pest arises, and that [[terminator gene]]s could lead to a widespread catastrophe affecting the food supply, if they spread to plants in the wild. Legal stories reported by the film related how a number of farmers in North America have been sued by the [[Monsanto|Monsanto Company]].

The film also describes a fear of major losses to local food systems and states that these gene banks will no longer be available to save global industrial agriculture when a new pest arises, and that if they spread to plants in the wild, [[terminator gene]]s could lead to a widespread catastrophe affecting the food supply. Legal stories reported by the film related how a number of farmers in North America have been sued by the [[Monsanto|Monsanto Company]].<ref name="San Francisco Chronicle 11-04-04">{{cite news|last1=Ness|first1=Carol|title=Fighting for the future of food / Deborah Koons Garcia's film documents how genetically engineered foods slipped into our supply|url=http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Fighting-for-the-future-of-food-Deborah-Koons-2637592.php|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=7 November 2004}}</ref><ref name="North Bay Bohemian 05-11-05">{{cite news|last1=Scheide|first1=R. V.|title=Green Genes 'Future of Food' sheds light on GMO debate|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/05.11.05/future-food-0519.html|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[North Bay Bohemian]]|date=11 May 2005}}</ref><ref name="Book 1">{{cite book|last1=Costa|first1=Temra|title=Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat|year=2010|publisher=Gibbs Smith|location=Deborah Koons Garcia|isbn=1423605624|pages=68-72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfVXaBM4gMkC&pg=PA68&dq=%22The+Future+of+Food%22+Deborah+Koons+Garcia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx0ojxwYDKAhUN-2MKHQjdBlgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Future%20of%20Food%22%20Deborah%20Koons%20Garcia&f=false|accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Book 2">{{cite book|last1=Albala|first1=Ken|title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues|year=2015|publisher=Sage Publications|location=Media Portrals of Food Issues: Multimedia Food Muckraking|isbn=1483346293|pages=952-953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvcaCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA952&dq=%22The+Future+of+Food%22+Deborah+Koons+Garcia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx0ojxwYDKAhUN-2MKHQjdBlgQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Future%20of%20Food%22%20Deborah%20Koons%20Garcia&f=false|accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Yoga Journal">{{cite journal|last1=Dayna|first1=Macy|title=Say no to GMOs|journal=[[Yoga Journal]]|date=March 2006|pages=26|issn=01910965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ekDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&dq=%22The+Future+of+Food%22+Deborah+Koons+Garcia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitgoKtwoDKAhVG7GMKHW-xBaE4FBDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Future%20of%20Food%22%20Deborah%20Koons%20Garcia&f=false|accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref>

== Cast ==
;interviewees:
* [[Chuck Benbrook|Dr. Charles M. Benbrook]] as Himself, former Director of [[National Academy of Science|National Academy of Science Board on Agriculture]]
* [[Ignacio Chapela]] as Himself, microbal ecologist at [[University of California Berkeley]]
* Exequiel Ezcurra as Himself, Director of [[National Autonomous University of Mexico|National Institute of Ecology, Mexico]]
* Louise Gale as Herself, [[Greenpeace International]]
* Dave Henson as Himself, founder, Program on Corporation, Law and Democracy
* Andrew Kimbrell as Himself, executive director, [[Center for Food Safety]]
* [[Percy Schmeiser]] as Himself
* [[Percy Schmeiser|Louise Schmeiser]] as Herself
* Fred Kirschenmann as Himself, director of The [[Aldo Leopold|Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture]]
* Marc Loiselle as Himself
* Paul Muller as Himself
* Rodney Nelson as Himself
* Darrin Qualman as Himself, [[National Farmers Union (Canada)|National Farmers Union, Canada]]
* Judith Redmond as Herself,
* Jorge Soberon as Himself, director, National Commission of Bio Safety, Mexico
* Terry Zakreski as Himself, attorney for [[Percy Schmeiser]]
;archive footage:
* [[George W. Bush]] as Himself
* [[Dan Quayle]] as Himself, Vice President & Chair of [[Council on Competitiveness]]
* Grace Booth as Herself, Allergic to Genetically Modified Corn

==Production==
[[File:Cover-dvd-thefutureoffood.jpg|40px|thumb|right]]
The film was written and directed by [[Jerry Garcia#Death|Deborah Koons Garcia]], produced by Catherine Butler and Koons Garcia, and premiered on September 14, 2005 at [[Film Forum]] in [[New York City]] to a full house. It has since been released on DVD in both [[NTSC]] and [[PAL]] formats.

==Recognition==

===Awards and nominations===
* 2005, won [[Women Film Critics Circle|WFCC award]] as 'Best Documentary: Above and Beyond' by [[Women Film Critics Circle]]
* 2005, won [[Audience Award]] as 'Best Documentary Film' at [[Ashland Independent Film Festival]]

===Critical response===
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote that the film "is a disturbing — if somewhat bland and partisan — study of agribusiness’ aggressive push for genetically-modified food,"
<ref name="Variety 01-03-05"/> and expressed "it’s a shame writer-director Deborah Koons Garcia opts to show only one side of the argument".
<ref name="Variety 01-03-05"/> They also felt that seen as "a rallying cry for organic and slow-food fans everywhere",
<ref name="Variety 01-03-05"/> the film would find a large audience "in public interest tube play and activist vid circulation."<ref name="Variety 01-03-05">{{cite news|last1=Koehler|first1=Robert|title=Review: ‘The Future of Food’|url=http://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/the-future-of-food-1200528865/|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=3 January 2005}}</ref>

[[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the film a "sober, far-reaching polemic against genetically modified foods" with its good guys and bad guys clearly identified.<ref name="The New York Times 09-14-04">{{cite news|author=[[Stephen Holden|Holden, Stephen]]|title=When Food From the Laboratory Leaves a Bitter Taste|url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/movies/14food.html|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|date=14 September 2004}}</ref>

''[[The Georgia Straight]]'' speaks toward [[Jerry Garcia#Death|Deborah Koons Garcia]] advocacy and her opposition to the genetic engineering done by [[Monsanto]]. While noting the film's beginning awkwardly with Koons-Garcia's pointing the finger of shame at the political motivation of Monsanto, they concluded it "gets slightly more hopeful as it goes along".<ref name="The Georgia Straight 12-01-05">{{cite news|last1=Eisner|first1=Ken|title=review: ''The Future of Food''|url=http://www.straight.com/article/the-future-of-food|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[The Georgia Straight]]|date=1 December 2005}}</ref>

''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' wrote the filmmaker "has taken a complex subject and made it digestible for anyone who cares about what they put into their stomachs," but also noted that "Monsanto will attack Garcia's documentary as a piece of unbalanced journalism".<ref name="San Francisco Chronicle 09-30-05">{{cite news|last1=Curiel|first1=Jonathan|title=Opening today: 'The Future of Food'|url=http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-CLIPS-Opening-today-2605644.php#flick3|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=30 September 2005}}</ref>

Victoria Gilman of [[Chemical & Engineering News]] criticized the lack of balance in the film, noting that Garcia defended farmers being deprived of the ability to raise non-GMO [[canola oil]] despite canola oil itself being an creation of genetic engineering using the science at the time.<ref name="Chemical & Engineering News 03-19-05">{{cite news|last1=Gilman|first1=Victoria|title=review: 'The Future of Food'|url=https://pubs.acs.org/cen/reelscience/reviews/future_food/|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=[[Chemical & Engineering News]]|date=19 March 2005}}</ref>


The film was written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, produced by Catherine Butler and Koons Garcia, and premiered on September 14, 2005 at [[Film Forum]] in [[New York City]] to a full house. It has since been released on DVD in both [[NTSC]] and [[PAL]] formats.
==See also==
==See also==
*''[[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life]]''
*''[[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life]]''
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*''[[A Place at the Table (film)|A Place at the Table]]''
*''[[A Place at the Table (film)|A Place at the Table]]''
*''[[Food, Inc.]]''
*''[[Food, Inc.]]''

== References ==
{{reflist|2}}


== External links ==
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== References ==
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Revision as of 23:08, 29 December 2015

The Future of Food
DVD coverart
Directed byDeborah Koons Garcia
Written byDeborah Koons Garcia
Starring
Narrated bySara Maamouri
CinematographyJohn Chater
Edited byVivien Hillgrove
Music byTodd Boekelheide
Production
company
Lily Films
Release date
  • May 30, 2004 (2004-05-30) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Budget$750,000 (est)

The Future of Food is a 2004 American documentary film written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia to describe an investigation into unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods sold in grocery stores in the United States for the past decade. In addition to the US, there is a focus on Canada and Mexico.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Synopsis

The film voices opinions of farmers in disagreement with the food industry, and details the impacts on their lives and livelihoods from this new technology, and the market and political forces that are changing what people eat. The farmers state that they are held legally responsible for their crops being invaded by "company-owned" genes. The film generally opposes the patenting of living organisms, and describes the disappearance of traditional cultural practices.

It also criticizes the cost of a globalized food industry on human lives around the world. It states that international companies are gradually driving farmers off their land in many countries, that monoculture farming might lead to global dependence of the human race on food corporations, and that there is an increased risk of ecological disasters caused by a reduction of biological diversity. For example, the local varieties of Mexican corn are being replaced by subsidized US corn.

The film also describes a fear of major losses to local food systems and states that these gene banks will no longer be available to save global industrial agriculture when a new pest arises, and that if they spread to plants in the wild, terminator genes could lead to a widespread catastrophe affecting the food supply. Legal stories reported by the film related how a number of farmers in North America have been sued by the Monsanto Company.[9][10][8][11][12]

Cast

interviewees
archive footage

Production

The film was written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, produced by Catherine Butler and Koons Garcia, and premiered on September 14, 2005 at Film Forum in New York City to a full house. It has since been released on DVD in both NTSC and PAL formats.

Recognition

Awards and nominations

Critical response

Variety wrote that the film "is a disturbing — if somewhat bland and partisan — study of agribusiness’ aggressive push for genetically-modified food," [2] and expressed "it’s a shame writer-director Deborah Koons Garcia opts to show only one side of the argument". [2] They also felt that seen as "a rallying cry for organic and slow-food fans everywhere", [2] the film would find a large audience "in public interest tube play and activist vid circulation."[2]

Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the film a "sober, far-reaching polemic against genetically modified foods" with its good guys and bad guys clearly identified.[1]

The Georgia Straight speaks toward Deborah Koons Garcia advocacy and her opposition to the genetic engineering done by Monsanto. While noting the film's beginning awkwardly with Koons-Garcia's pointing the finger of shame at the political motivation of Monsanto, they concluded it "gets slightly more hopeful as it goes along".[6]

San Francisco Chronicle wrote the filmmaker "has taken a complex subject and made it digestible for anyone who cares about what they put into their stomachs," but also noted that "Monsanto will attack Garcia's documentary as a piece of unbalanced journalism".[3]

Victoria Gilman of Chemical & Engineering News criticized the lack of balance in the film, noting that Garcia defended farmers being deprived of the ability to raise non-GMO canola oil despite canola oil itself being an creation of genetic engineering using the science at the time.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Holden, Stephen (14 September 2004). "When Food From the Laboratory Leaves a Bitter Taste". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e Koehler, Robert (3 January 2005). "Review: 'The Future of Food'". Variety. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  3. ^ a b Curiel, Jonathan (30 September 2005). "Opening today: 'The Future of Food'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  4. ^ Gonzales, Ed (1 September 2005). "The Future of Food". Slant. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  5. ^ Robinson, Tasha (14 September 2005). "The Future Of Food". AV Club. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  6. ^ a b Eisner, Ken (1 December 2005). "review: The Future of Food". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  7. ^ a b Gilman, Victoria (19 March 2005). "review: 'The Future of Food'". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  8. ^ a b Costa, Temra (2010). Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat. Deborah Koons Garcia: Gibbs Smith. pp. 68–72. ISBN 1423605624. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  9. ^ Ness, Carol (7 November 2004). "Fighting for the future of food / Deborah Koons Garcia's film documents how genetically engineered foods slipped into our supply". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  10. ^ Scheide, R. V. (11 May 2005). "Green Genes 'Future of Food' sheds light on GMO debate". North Bay Bohemian. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  11. ^ Albala, Ken (2015). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues. Media Portrals of Food Issues: Multimedia Food Muckraking: Sage Publications. pp. 952–953. ISBN 1483346293. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  12. ^ Dayna, Macy (March 2006). "Say no to GMOs". Yoga Journal: 26. ISSN 0191-0965. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
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