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Fresh by Ana Sofia Joanes (2009): inconvenient truths in the pudding.

July 22nd, 2009 by Fredo Martin | 1 Comment | Filed in Agriculture, Food System

The filmic narrative of Fresh, punctuated by interviews with author Michael Pollan, delivers a carefully crafted didactic message: the industrial agro-business as we know it, replete as it is with noxious pesticides, animal concentration camps, monocultures that exhaust vast expanses of land, is an unsustainable paradox. While it aims at feeding us all at a low price, it depletes the land and poisons us with mutated strains of various bacteria… Continue reading

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