Green Upgrader Takes on Monsanto ‘Facts’

The documentary ‘Food Inc.’ is taking the world by storm, unveiling the truth about industrial food production in America. Filmmaker Robert Kenner actually set out to tell the story from the points of view of both organic farmers and industrial food growers, but the big companies like Perdue, Tyson and of course Monsanto wouldn’t talk to him or let their production practices be filmed.

Ironically, Monsanto is now railing against the ‘biased, one-sided’ nature of the documentary with a list of supposed ‘facts’ on their website.

From Monsanto via Green Upgrader:

“Food, Inc. is a one-sided, biased film that the creators claim will “lift the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer.” Unfortunately, Food, Inc. is counter-productive to the serious dialogue surrounding the critical topic of our nation’s food supply.

“Throughout this film, Food, Inc.:

• Demonizes American farmers and the agriculture system responsible for feeding over 300 million people in the United States.
• Presents an unrealistic view of how to feed a growing nation while ignoring the practical demands of the American consumer and the fundamental needs of consumers around the world.
• Disregards the fact that multiple agriculture systems should – and do – coexist.  ”

GreenUpgrader takes issue with these claims:

“Food, Inc. demonizes American farmers.”  Not once in the movie do they vilify, demonize or wag their finger at a single farmer.  They interview a number of famers and illustrate how corperations like Monsanto, Perdue and Cargill have systematically victimized and bullied farmers large and small.  They go on to say “The film, Food. Inc, suggests the food supply is dominated by corporate farms.”  Also not true, the film suggests that corperations, like Monsanto dominate the food supply, in a large part becasue of the dominion they hold over family farms.

“Food, Inc. presents an unrealistic view of how to feed a growing nation.”  Monsanto would like everyone to believe that there is a shortage of food but that simply isn’t the case.  In fact we produce enough food to put it in our car’s gas tanks, have the most obese people in the world and be one of the largest agricultural exporters in the world.  Furthermore, sustainable agriculture does not mean every farm has to be a tiny backyard garden.  Large commercial farms can farm sustainably and efficiently.

Read the rest over at GreenUpgrader.

Food, Inc. is now playing in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Link [GreenUpgrader]

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