Thursday March 6, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm
Written & Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia
There is a revolution happening on the farms and at the dinner tables of America that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. This well-researched documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia, widow of legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, takes an in-depth look at the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly been filling U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decades. This film examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat, as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food systems. It also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, offering solutions such as organic practices and sustainable agriculture that can provide alternative food sources without opening the Pandora’s Box of genetically modified foodstuffs, whose effects on the environment – large or small – cannot be known or predicted by anyone.
Special Guest: Josh Slotnick of Director of Garden City Harvest will answer questions about the agriculture in Missoula
Co-sponsors: the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Montana and Dr. Vicki Watson’s Watershed Clinic.
Discussions to Follow Each Screening. Please join us.
Producer's Web Site: www.theFutureofFood.com