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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Admirable film.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The Future Of Food, an 88 minute long documentary, released in 2004, and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, wife of the late founder of the 1960s rock band, The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, is a film that rehashes many of the same points made in the earlier films, yet also goes a bit more deeply, penetrating into the web of how Monsanto, and other agribusiness giants weave a web of control and oligopoly that reverberates up and down the food chain, and puts the squeeze on the small, family farmer, even waging a war on them. The film shows how a Canadian farmer named Percy Schmeiser stood up to Monsanto and was ruined by a corrupt Canadian judiciary (although, if one follows the link provided, it seems that Schmeiser actually got the upper hand in 2008!).The film also details how these corporate thugs, mostly in the petrochemical and insecticide and herbicide industries, have cornered the market in the seed industry, and how ridiculous patent laws have allowed the first company with the idea to patent natural plants to do so, and how they have tried to standardize patent laws worldwide so that an American or French company could somehow dictate the agricultural and food policies of developing and Third World nations, in a sort of corporate colonialism that is bound to engender not only health, but political, problems in the future. The destruction of native cultures is just part of the problem, for the larger issue is the absurdity of patenting life itself, and stating that Crop X belongs to a foreign company, thus allowing foreign interests to lay economic and legal rights to products they had no part in cultivating, while also allowing these unevolved and monoculture crops great range and susceptibility to droughts and pests they cannot fight off, for even Monsanto's Round Up Ready soy beans are showing their limitations as a food source, whereas Mexico's natal and diverse forms of corn, which occasionally remix with wild and progenitor breeds prove hardier and more resistant than the genetically modified corn from north of the border.The film also brings to light what is called the Terminator Gene that has been developed in certain crops, which was designed so that limits on crops could more easily maintain crop process. The utter folly of this, were these strains to become dominant, is that famine would be rampant, and the very development of such a gene, alone, should be enough to convince any legislative body of the folly of allowing corporate empty suits to have any say in the vital national security issue of feeding the masses. All in all, The Future Of Food is likely the best and most information rich of these documentaries in conveying the scope and depth of the issues surrounding America's insane agricultural process.

The Future of Food is a documentary which makes an in-depth investigation into unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have made their way onto grocery stores in the United States for the past decade.Also,it focuses on growing concerns over how our crops are produced, and how science is altering the foods we eat.In addition to the US there is a focus on Canada and Mexico.It was written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia.The documentary 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 shines a light on the market and political forces that are changing what people eat. The farmers are outraged that they are held legally responsible for their crops being invaded by "company-owned" genes. It generally opposes any patenting of life, and particularly the destruction of traditional cultural practices.Also,it decries the cost of a globalized food industry on human lives around the world, and highlights how international companies are gradually driving farmers off the land and into poverty and famine in many countries. Potential global dependence of the human race on a limited number of global food corporations is discussed, as is the increased risk of ecological disasters — such as the Irish potato famine — resulting from the reduction of biological diversity due to the promotion of corporate-sponsored monoculture farming.There are thousands of special local land race varieties of corn growing in Mexico. These precious reservoirs, a library of thousands of years of human agriculture, are now being polluted by the invasion of subsidized US corn. There is a fear of major losses to local food systems -- and also that these gene banks will no longer be available to save global industrial agriculture when a new pest arises.The issue of incorporating a terminator gene into plant seeds is questioned, with concern being expressed about the potential for a widespread catastrophe affecting the food supply, should such a gene contaminate other 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 Company; and the defendant of the Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser case is interviewed.This is an important film that hits Americans for with alarming and concise analysis, it highlights the way traditional farming in the US has become a corporate-controlled, less diversified business with global repercussions.Finally,there is plenty to reflect on coming from this informationally dense and brilliant documentary.

This type of propaganda doesn't do anything for the debate. The agriculture community has been talking about the monoculture issue for years. Is it a potential problem? Yes. Do dramatic films that twist data do anything to truly inform people? No. From "Feed Grains, Soybeans and the World Trade Organization" by Albert Allen, Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University "Although scientists agree that GMO products are safe, consumer groups, environmentalists, political leaders, doctors,and others are increasingly debating the health, environmental and ethical issues surrounding these products. In European countries, governments have delayed the acceptance of corn varieties that are GMO enhanced. This could lead to world wide delays in the marketing of these products to consumers." So, "scientific consensus" is good enough for global warming but not for GMO's. Interesting.

"The Future of Food" is a documentary that deals with the history of the agricultural industry and the development of genetically engineered food. It delves deep into the topics of patenting these genetically engineered creations by huge corporations and how the FDA's and EPA's regulations aren't strict enough and how food that has been genetically engineered in the United States does not have to be labeled. This is all valuable information.Then the movie spends the rest of the time bashing a corporation "Monsanto" for destroying the lives of all these farmers and potentially they will bring the end of the world. Phrases like "if 60 genetically altered salmon are entered into the mainstream population, the salmon species COULD be extinct within 40 generations," are all fine and good, but there's no flip side of the coin. There's no one from Monsanto backing claims. There's no one saying, "Genetically engineered salmon could increase population growth." It seems that many documentaries recently have become witch hunts against multinational corporations, which I think are great if both sides are presented. Maybe Monsanto didn't want to talk to the filmmaker, but if that was the case, let the viewer know that at least they tried to show both sides of the story. Show the filmmaker calling or have a graphic saying "They declined comment." "The future of Food" is a great idea, with a lot of great information, but it ultimately fails because it only shows 50% of the story, hence my 5 out of 10 rating.