December 14, 2004
Where wheat begins and where wheat ends
Deborah Koons Garcia screened her documentary, The Future of Food over a meal yesterday evening; she's been showing it around the country -- and the world! -- to political activist groups, food-action collectives, and at the Castro Theatre, as a benefit for Slow Food.
(The lovely and many-talented Sara Maamouri narrates, produces, and did much of the video research for the film.
Andy mentioned that a Native American group would once consider all of their decisions unto the seventh generation.
Deborah said that the US Congress recenlty passed, by virtue of a quiet rider attached to another bill, legislation subjugating Iraq to US patent law. Having destroyed their crops (isn't the Fertile Crescent where homo sapiens first cultivated wheat?), we will now destroy their nutrition.