Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farm has 2 Minneapolis screenings this weekend.
Sat, Oct 15, 1pm at St. Anthony Main
and
Sun, Oct 16, 3pm at Bryant Lake Bowl
The Saturday showing will be followed by a special panel discussion and Q & A.
Panelists include:
- Sarah Anderson, Minnesota State Representative – 43A, author of the Minnesota Raw Milk Access Bill .
- Kathryn Niflis Johnson, BSN, RN, natural health educator, Optimal Health Connection
- Diane Miller, Minnesota attorney, co-founder National Health Freedom Coalition/Action
- Paul Reese, Minnesota grass-based dairy farmer
- Tracy Singleton, owner of Birchwood Cafe
In a large part, this is about raw milk, and what agencies are doing in their “regulation.”
From the Press Kit, here’s her SYNOPSIS:
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is
under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms
that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and
were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of
misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.
Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four
children turned into an educational journey to discover why access
to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies
that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small familyoperated
farms selling fresh foods to their communities. Instead of
focusing on the source of food safety problems — most often the
industrial food chain — policymakers and regulators implement and
enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small
farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing
safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of
government regulations and excessive enforcement actions.
Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom,
encouraging farmers and consumers alike to take action to preserve
individuals’ rights to access food of their choice and farmers’
rights to produce these foods safely and free from unreasonably
burdensome regulations. The film serves to put policymakers and
regulators on notice that there is a growing movement of people
aware that their freedom to choose the foods they want is in
danger, a movement that is taking action with its dollars and its
voting power to protect and preserve the dwindling number of
family farms that are struggling to survive.