The story of a mom whose son was healed from all allergies and asthma after consuming raw milk, and real food from farms. It depicts people all over the country who formed food co-ops and private clubs to get these foods, and how they were raided by state and local governments. Farmageddon tells the story of family farms that were providing healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop by agents of misguided government bureaucracies.
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‘Farmageddon’ doc tracks the coming food-safety showdown
Will jack-booted thugs from the FDA shut down the alternative food movement? The new documentary Farmageddon seems to think so.
The Senate’s food-safety bill, which we debated in depth here on Grist, will likely come to a vote next week. But even if it passes and gets signed into law by President Obama — and I expect it will — it’s unlikely to resolve fights that are brewing about risk in the food system, particularly the risks embodied by small-scale, artisanal (sorry, Bonnie) dairy and meat producers.
I was grappling with this issue this very weekend, reading Burkhard Bilger’s New Yorker profile of fermentation guru Sando Katz and Bill Neuman’s New York Times piece on a small-scale cheese producer’s fight with the FDA. As if on cue, the trailer for a coming-soon documentary on just these issues, called Farmageddon, has crossed my desk. It features Raw Milk Revolution author David Gumpert, who’s written several articles about raids on farms for Grist.
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