Farmegeddon Movie Premier - Our Daily Green

Monday, June 13, 2011

Farmegeddon Movie Premier

The world premier of Farmegeddon is this coming weekend July 17-23, in Washington DC,  in conjunction with the Weston A. Price foundation.

From the press kit, a synopsis:
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why. 
Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small familyoperated farms selling fresh foods to their communities. Instead of focusing on the source of food safety problems -- most often the industrial food chain -- policymakers and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government regulations and excessive enforcement actions. 
Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom, encouraging farmers and consumers alike to take action to preserve individuals’ rights to access food of their choice and farmers’ rights to produce these foods safely and free from unreasonably burdensome regulations. The film serves to put policymakers and regulators on notice that there is a growing movement of people aware that their freedom to choose the foods they want is in danger, a movement that is taking action with its dollars and its voting power to protect and preserve the dwindling number of family farms that are struggling to survive.

3 comments :

vach said...

Nice job, Kim. Looking very forward to seeing the whole movie!

Michelle said...

Excellent post! I look forward to seeing this. It's a shame that we have to fight so hard to access good, wholesome, safe food, but we must.

Peace. ;)
Michelle @ Green Earth Bazaar

Alicia@ eco friendly homemaking said...

Oh I am really looking forward to seeing this!