Fed Up!
2002Nominated 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?
Acted in
Britt Bailey
as Herself - Center for Ethics and Toxics
Dominique Baron
as Herself - Concerned Citizen
Brent Blackwelder
as Himself - Friends of the Earth, USA
Beth Burroughs
as Herself - Executive Director, The Edmonds Institute
Ignacio Chapela
as Himself - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Sue Markland Day
as Herself - President, Bay Area Bioscience Center
Katie Dwight
as Herself - Purisima Greens Farm
Dan Glickman
as Himself - US Secretary of Agriculture (voice)
Diane Joy Goodman
as Herself - Farm Box Project Consulting
Simon Harris
as Himself - Organic Consumers Association
Karen Heisler
as Herself - Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture Initiative Program
Susanne L. Huttner
as Herself - Director, Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, University of California
Tony Juniper
as Himself - Friends of the Earth, England
Daphne Kingsley
as Herself - Live Power Community Farm, Apprentice
Nancy Evans
as Herself - Communications Consultant, The Bread Cancer Fund