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Title Fed up! [videorecording] : genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, and sustainable alternatives / Wholesome Goodness Productions ; directed and edited by Angelo Sacerdote.

Imprint [San Francisco] : Wholesome Goodness Productions, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  631.5233 F316 2002    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD.
Performer Commentary: Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey, Peter Rosset, Anuradha Mittal, Vandana Shiva, Ignacio Chapela, Martina McGloughlin.
Credits Creative consultant, Matthew Souziz ; assistant editor, Gina Osterloh.
Note Special features: Chapter selections ; three archival films "Chicken of tomorrow," "Death to weeds," and "Man and his culture."
Language Closed-captioned.
Summary Using archival footage interspersed with interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, this video presents an overview of the American food production system and explores the unintentional effects of pesticides, the resistance of biotechnology companies to food labeling and the links between government officials and major biotechnology and chemical companies. It addresses many questions regarding genetic engineering, the Green Revolution, genetic pollution and modern pesticides.
Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Pesticides -- Risk assessment.
Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment.
Genetically modified foods.
Food -- Labeling.
Food -- Biotechnology.
Green Revolution.
Sustainable agriculture.
Organic farming.
Genre/Form Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Sacerdote, Angelo.
Lappe, Marc.
Bailey, Britt.
Rosset, Peter.
Mittal, Anuradha, 1967-
Shiva, Vandana.
Chapela, Ignacio H.
McGloughlin, Martina.
Wholesome Goodness Productions.
Added Title Chicken of tomorrow.
Death to weeds.
Man and his culture.

 
    
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