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Fed Up!
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Fed Up!

2002 · 58 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Genetically engineered crops entered the American food supply so quietly that by the time this film was made, an estimated 70 percent of processed foods already contained them without a label to say so. The film traces that shift from the Green Revolution's chemical-heavy farming to the biotech industry's engineered seeds, using archival footage and interviews to lay out who benefits and who is left in the dark. Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey of the Center for Ethics and Toxics, Vandana Shiva, and UC Berkeley's Ignacio Chapela raise concerns about genetic pollution and corporate influence over regulators, while Martina McGloughlin of UC Davis's biotechnology program makes the industry's case. The film also visits Bay Area growers, Purisima Greens Farm and Live Power Community Farm, as working examples of community-supported and small-scale organic agriculture. Its throughline is the fight over labeling: whether consumers get to know what is in their food, or whether that decision stays with the companies that grow it.