permaculture

[Jill <newsforjill@earthlink.net>]

Lawrence, the website for this excellent movie is 
http://www.futureoffood.com/. (If you decide to buy it so you can show 
it to everyone you know and hopefully scores of others you haven't met 
yet, it's cheaper, but less profitable for the creators, at Amazon.)

Lisa, I had a surprising experience showing this movie to my Mom, who is 
older and seems truly to believe that if she doesn't see it on the 
corporate news, it's either not true or not important. She had, of 
course, not heard that GMO plants were spreading unhampered 
contaminating traditional plants, or that they might not be a great 
idea. She not only believed what she saw here, but she was shocked at 
Monsanto's behavior, alarmed that we are jeopardize our ability to grow 
food, and she is now more tolerant of the "extra" money I spend on 
local, pastured, organic etc etc. AND she wants to eat more that way 
herself.

I think movies like this that take a familiar form for TV watchers and 
that are direct-distributed, have the potential to deliver to the 
anesthetized viewer the important information corporate media wants to 
distract them from.

(Slightly off topic, sorry!)
Jill