Opening Thursday at the Quad Cinema in New York and available in home
video on November 17th, “Food Beware: the French Organic Revolution” is
a companion piece to films like “Food Inc.” and “The Future of Food”
that detail the harm done to consumer and nature by chemical farming.
But “Food Beware” has an added dimension, going one step further to make
the case that the cancer epidemic of our epoch is directly related to
the chemical-laden agriculture that has been largely adopted in the
pursuit of profit. Originally titled “Nos enfants nous accuseront”, this
documentary by Jean-Paul Jaud explores the same deadly nexus that is the
subject of Sandra Steingraber’s “Living Downstream”. Stricken by bladder
cancer in her 20s, Steingraber—a biologist and poet—sought to make the
connections between cancer and the toxins that seeped into the waters of
her Illinois farming community. In that book she wrote:
"To the 89 percent of Illinois that is farmland, an estimated 54 million
pounds of synthetic pesticides are applied each year. Introduced into
Illinois at the end of World War II, these chemical poisons quietly
familiarized themselves with the landscape. In 1950, less than 10
percent of cornfields were sprayed with pesticides. In 1993, 99 percent
were chemically treated."
read full article: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/food-beware/
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