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Fed Up!

55 %|Jan 1, 2002|

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?

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Cast

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