Fed Up! 22 years old

Bioengineering, Agriculture

Nominated for an Environmental Media Award, this eye-opening documentary explores the United States' food production system from the organic farming of the Green Movement to the genetically engineered food of the Biotech Revolution. Through fascinating archival footage and interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, Fed Up! provides a detailed and sometimes disturbing overview of contemporary food production. About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not labeled. The biotechnology industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope for feeding the world and saving the environment. Family farmers are disappearing at an astonishing rate as people continue to go hungry both here and abroad. Toxic agricultural chemicals continue to poison our air, food and water and put farm workers in serious danger. What's a person to do?

Credits

Fed Up! Cast

Name Character
Beth Burroughs as Herself - Executive Director, The Edmonds Institute
Karen Heisler as Herself - Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture Initiative Program
Sue Markland Day as Herself - President, Bay Area Bioscience Center
Britt Bailey as Herself - Center for Ethics and Toxics
Tony Juniper He was 41, now 64 years old as Himself - Friends of the Earth, England
Dan Glickman He was 57, now 80 years old as Himself - US Secretary of Agriculture (voice)
Brent Blackwelder as Himself - Friends of the Earth, USA
Simon Harris He was 40, now 62 years old as Himself - Organic Consumers Association
Ignacio Chapela He was 43, now 65 years old as Himself - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Susanne L. Huttner as Herself - Director, Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, University of California
Katie Dwight as Herself - Purisima Greens Farm
Dominique Baron as Herself - Concerned Citizen
Daphne Kingsley as Herself - Live Power Community Farm, Apprentice
Diane Joy Goodman as Herself - Farm Box Project Consulting

Fed Up! Crew

Name Department
Fed Up! poster
Fed Up! (22 years)

Bioengineering, Agriculture

  • Release day: Tuesday, January 01, 2002
  • Runtime: 57 minutes