hopefully this will get a much wider audience than just Harbourfront in TO -
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>Subject: [SDOH] I have just viewed the documentary film The Future of Food
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>Hello everyone,
>I've just had the opportunity to view the film The Future of Food which
>will be shown this coming Friday night at Toronto Harbourfront in a FREE
>showing. The film is an eyeopener for those who haven't yet stumbled on
>the facts about the directions change has taken in our globalizing world
>today. Although it's not a central idea, the film demonstrates for me that
>if you believed universities have any power at all to protect communities
>against the power of corporations, your assumptions need reexamination and
>revision. Essentially if corporations can position themselves like they
>have in the area of food production, university researchers are easily
>rendered completely impotent. How might this extrapolate to other human
>service areas in future I am wondering. I can't help also inserting a
>qualifying comment here: What I saw and thought about the film and what
>I've just said about it doesn't mean of course that universities don't
>still hold enormous power currently in relation to communities; not at
>all, they are still an overpowering force in relation to communities, and
>there is no evidence that their power can be used at all consistently to
>support communities or the freedom of self determination of the citizenry.
>I think this is very doubtful. Although I think there are certainly a
>minority of exceptional researchers everywhere with the capability of
>understanding the interests of communities and even taking some risks to
>support those interests, mostly I think university researchers do not
>possess the powers to truly support those interests; and building x y or z
>partial capacity in some area that is not even necessarily being asked for
>does not translate to any real support of a community's interests.
>However back to the film. The fact that university researchers can be
>rendered completely impotent against corporate control doesn't mean that a
>few unfunded, sacrificing and heroic citizens like the farmers in this
>film and a tiny number of exceptional researchers who appear in this film,
>who are willing to put everything on the line, and continue to do so,
>can't raise their voices as is they do in this film, in order to draw
>other citizens' attention to the problem of the growing corporate control
>of farming, of food, of the health of the planet, and ultimately of our
>health. The absence of corporate accountability highlighted in The Future
>of Food is certainly perplexing given that the global/society-wide calls
>for accountability we have been witnessing are apparently structured on
>and motivated by systems of corporate accountability. I am urging everyone
>who hasn't yet to see the film as soon as you can and to consider what can
>be done. It is a profound wake up call. The film leads me to the
>conclusion that citizens can't afford to comply with the structures being
>designed to 'engage' us in giving input into policy and social governanace
>since this is not only introduces the notion of stakeholder groups (eg
>universities) that potentially constitute a heavy counterweight to the
>interests of the citizenry, it also appears to act as a way of channelling
>and diverting citizen activity away from any challenge of the most
>profound changes that are underway. Probably it is the very centralized
>organization of engagement itself which needs some challenging, direct or
>otherwise. This film is disturbing but more than that it is potentially
>activating on many levels. Linda Green
>The Future of Food
>Toronto, Ontario showing
>Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
>6:30 p.m, August 11, 2006
>http://www.ohpe.ca/ebulletin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7650&Itemid=63
>ACT for the Earth and Harbourfront Centre present an evening on the past,
>the present and The Future of Food.
>Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A followed by a film screening of The
>Future of Food, which offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing
>truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that
>have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
>The Speakers
>Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer and seed breeder who has become
>world-famous for displaying enormous courage and tenacity in his legal
>battles with Monsanto.
>Dylan Penner is Executive Director of ACT for the Earth and Editor of The
>ACTivist magazine.
>Chris Davenport is a member of ACT for the Earth and an organic urban
>gardener and advocate for local food production.
>Admission is free. Visit http://harbourfrontcentre.com for more
>information.
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