Fed Up! (2002)

Plot Summary

Nominated for an Environmental Media Award, this eye-opening documentary explores the United States' food production system from the organic farming of the Green Movement to the genetically engineered food of the Biotech Revolution. Through fascinating archival footage and interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, Fed Up! provides a detailed and sometimes disturbing overview of contemporary food production. About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not labeled. The biotechnology industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope for feeding the world and saving the environment. Family farmers are disappearing at an astonishing rate as people continue to go hungry both here and abroad. Toxic agricultural chemicals continue to poison our air, food and water and put farm workers in serious danger. What's a person to do?

Full Cast & Characters

Britt Bailey

Herself - Center for Ethics and Toxics

Dominique Baron

Herself - Concerned Citizen

Brent Blackwelder

Himself - Friends of the Earth, USA

Beth Burroughs

Herself - Executive Director, The Edmonds Institute

Ignacio Chapela

Himself - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Sue Markland Day

Herself - President, Bay Area Bioscience Center

Katie Dwight

Herself - Purisima Greens Farm

Dan Glickman

Himself - US Secretary of Agriculture (voice)

Diane Joy Goodman

Herself - Farm Box Project Consulting

Simon Harris

Himself - Organic Consumers Association

Karen Heisler

Herself - Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture Initiative Program

Susanne L. Huttner

Herself - Director, Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, University of California

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