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Food Fight: The Revolution Never Tasted So Good

The on-going global food crisis and the obesity epidemic in countries like the US are perversely linked: they are both symptoms of an industrial food system that causes scarcity in poor nations, and a glut of unhealthy foods in wealthy nations. This hypothesis has increasingly been offered by analysts and writers like Raj Patel author of “Stuffed and Starved,” and Michael Pollan, the best selling author of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.” The history of how our food got to be dominated by higly processed so-called “convenience foods” filled with high-fructose corn syrup and soy-based oil goes all the way back to World War II, as illustrated in a new documentary: Food Fight: Revolution Never Tasted So Good. The film, by Chris Taylor and Alan Siegel follows what they call a revolution of fresh, organic, local, and most of all, great-tasting food, as embodied by growing numbers of farmers markets.

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Food Fight DVD – $120