The Future of Food is a 2004 American documentary film which makes an in-depth investigation into unlabelled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly made their way onto grocery stores in the world for the past decade.

It 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 we eat.

The film decries the cost of a globalised food industry on human lives around the world, and highlights how international companies are gradually driving farmers off the land 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 (1845–1849) — resulting from the reduction of biological diversity due to the promotion of corporate-sponsored monoculture farming.

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.

The film was written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, produced by Catherine Butler and Koons Garcia.

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4 Responses to “The Future of Food”

  1. sonia Says:
    March 22nd, 2010 at 18:37

    Its sad to see this taking place. Its like out of a horror story. ._.

    We need to change this. We’re have the choice to destroy the world, or protect and live in it. and obviously the mutually beneficial is the only one that’s going to to be sustainable for us and all other creatures in the world.

    this explains why there’s that global seed vault saving the worlds seeds…

  2. Joe Says:
    March 31st, 2010 at 04:01

    Regardless, nature has her way of violent reaction. It is impossible for any human to win against her. That is the law.

  3. Laura Vaughan Says:
    April 22nd, 2010 at 23:35

    There is alot of evidence to show that the great famine in Ireland was actually a holocaust imposed on us by the British and although we did eat potatoes at the time predominantly we also ate other foods stuffs such meat, eggs, dairy products, wheat, oats and vegetables. But Ireland did not starve for want of potatoes, it starved for want of food when the British army removed at gunpoint enough food to feed 18 million people. ashttp://www.irishholocaust.org/

  4. e. quiroz Says:
    June 5th, 2010 at 17:17

    what i dont understand is that the u.s makes it be known about other countries that have terrorism and the murdering of there own people and makes sure that the media smears all other countries. Well doesnt this seem like a non voilent way of terrorism that the u.s is doing to its own citizens by murdering the hopes and dreams planely robbing the honest farmers of america

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