Educational because it involves a timeline of similar events:
1940 - "Look to the Land" is published, the term "organic farming" is coined
1947 - "Soil and Health" is published
1962 - "Silent Spring" is published, bringing national attention to DDT use
1967 - Environmental Defense Fund is formed, they target DDT use
1969 - Time magazine covers the 13th fire on the Cayhoga River, and eventually spurs the Clean Water Act
1970 - Earth Day becomes annual event
1973 - the US bans DDT due to the public uproar originally started by "Silent Spring"
1989 - 60 Minutes cover the use of alar on apples
1990 - Congress creates national standards for organic labeling
2001 - "Fast Food Nation" released in book form
2001 - Congress passes Final Organic Rule, prohibiting irradiation, sewage sludge and GE seed in organic labeled produce
2004 - "Supersize Me!" is released by Morgan Spurlock
2006 - Al Gore and the producers of "Fed Up" release "Inconvenient Truth"
2007 - "An Inconvenient Truth" wins Academy Award for Best Documentary
2010 - "Food Inc" released
2010 - State of California starts Transparency in Supply Chains to avoid slavery and human trafficking in food production
5/9/2014 - "Fed Up" is released
So how much will Fed Up change America?
A: In combination with major books and documentaries that has come before and everything that will follow, "Fed Up" will raise awareness, increase consumer demand for labeling, drive Congressional actions to give consumers more information and choices and highlight healthier choices for our health and the health of our environment. Specifically this documentary can stop the myth that we are all becoming fatter because we "are lazy" or "are eating way too much." Once we stop blaming the wrong things we can work on the real problems.
Thanks for asking!
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