Fighting Against Global Warming, For the Health of the Planet, and for the Health of Our Kids -- One Farm at a Time

By Paul K. Haeder

I interviewed Ana Sofia Joanes, the director and producer of the new movie, Fresh. That's http://www.kyrs.org/

Tipping Points: Voices from the Edge

This film shows in Spokane, Thursday, Sept. 3 @ 6:30 p.m. at the Magic Lantern, 35 W. Main.

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Why include this food movie in the blog? It seems that food and sustainability are the two main areas that allow us to view the world today as a microcosm -- the full circle approach of our time to discuss systems thinking, paradigm shift, back to the past, a new post carbon era, and just stopping the unhealthy industrialized ag system that is sickening our planet.

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/142359/the_not-so-happy_meal%3A_what%27s_really_in_fast_food/

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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/global-warming-melting-glaciers-shrinking-harvests.php

And guess how food and health connect? The irony is that on the show Wed. I also had on an internal medicine MD who's working for single payer health care for all, including over 50 million uninsured Americans. Again, sustainability includes that arena -- fixing a broken food system that is killing the environment, local economies and our citizens' health. And, health insurance in the form of equity and single payer health is what a majority of doctors wants -- 60 percent of internal medicine doctors say yes to single payer. Higher percentages of nurses throughout the USA do, and other doctors in other specialities vote in higher numbers for a single payer health system, not to include plastic surgery. They also want preventative health ramped up big-time, and they too want to help fix the current addicitive food system of too much salt, fat, sugar and calories.

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/142272/the_public_option_needs_your_help/
Food and food security are the issues of our time, and technologists, scientists and climate experts are working to gain some sanity in the system. Watch 3 movies for quick edification: Fresh, Food Inc., and The Future of Food. Three great films about the challenges we have in this climate change and sustainability community.

Ana says:

http://www.freshthemovie.com/

FRESH is more than a movie, it’s a gateway to action. Our aim is to help grow FRESH food, ideas, and become active participant in an exciting, vibrant, and fast-growing movement.

When I write we, I don’t mean our small team (officially two of us, with lots of amazing helps from our interns and volunteers) but I mean YOU. All of you. FRESH is a grassroots efforts for a grassroots movement. It’s been tremendously exciting to see the movie catch on and spread like wild fire, being used all over the country as a platform to raise awareness and connecting people to the solutions available in their community.

Within a month of our launch, we’ve received over 20,000 visitors and hundreds of screenings have already been organized. We want to reach 1 million folks. Not just because that would totally feel nice to our ego (mine especially!), but because, we believe that FRESH can truly help get us to a tipping point, when sustainable food will no longer be just a niche market.

Please help us reach 1 million people (to start with that is.) Organize a home screening or a community screening. Get in touch with us, let us know what we can do more and better.

We’re open!