"The Future of Food" Screening

New York City, Feb. 15, 2005

You're cordially invited to see the new documentary THE FUTURE OF FOOD which
will be screened this Tuesday, February 15th at 7pm at Sixth Street
Community Center, 638 East 6th Street (between Avenues B & C) in Manhattan.
The documentary runs about 80 minutes (description below).

Howard Brandstein

Sixth Street Community Center/SOS Food

www.thefutureoffood.com

There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables
of America — a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food
we eat.THE FUTURE OF FOOD 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.

From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico,
this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been
negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications,
government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the
reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically
altered crops into our food supply.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD 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 system.
The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture,
placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm
crisis today.