Fight for True Farming, The

Eve Lamont
Canada, documentary, 2005
90 mins. (Beta)

Agriculture is in a global crisis. The agribusiness corporations' obsession with productivity is harming the environment and the quality of our food. Under pressure from globalization, farmers are seeing declining revenues, and family farms are disappearing one after the other. "The money doesn't go to the farms now; it goes to the companies' labs" says one farmer. This is a film of grim lucidity but also irrepressible hope. All over the world, a current resistance is emerging on the part of both farmers and consumers. These united voices insist in is possible to grow and produce food differently, even on a large scale, while maintaining respect for the environment and self-sufficiency of growers.