January 30: Multnomah County Sustainability Film Series Presents Food Fight @ Bagdad Theater | FREE
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Multnomah County Sustainability Film Series presents Food Fight (2008)
Bagdad Theater & Pub
Sunday, January 30
More info: www.mcmenamins.com/events/85987-Food-Fight-2008
5 p.m. doors; 6 p.m. event
Free | All ages welcome
About Food Fight (2008)
When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system has been co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy, sustainably-produced food.
Fortunately for America, an alternative emerged from the counter-culture of California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where a group of political anti-corporate protesters–led by Alice Waters–voiced their dissent by creating a food chain outside of the conventional system. The unintended result was the birth of a vital local-sustainable-organic food movement which has brought back taste and variety to our tables.
FOOD FIGHT is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness.
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