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Hijacked Future


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Subjects: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Business Studies, Climate Change, Food Supply, Global Issues, History, Law, Sustainability, Technology

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: Ashnan Films
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 43 mins
Country of Origin: Canada
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 2008
Available in French: No

Eating breakfast toast: a simple ritual to start the day. The bread probably came from a bakery or grocery store, but beyond that who knows where the wheat came from - never mind the seeds that grew the wheat. Do we need to know?

A new documentary, “Hijacked Future” says yes, because those seeds that became the toast you ate this morning are being hijacked - right into a looming world food security catastrophe. While our industrial system of agriculture is providing abundance and variety today, this documentary warns us that it's an unsustainable system that will not be able to nourish and provide for us and our grandchildren in the future.

It's a system that literally runs on oil, from fertilizers and pesticides, to the trucks and planes that transport food. And the source of our food - seeds - is being hijacked by a handful of corporations from the farmers who have for millennia, grown and saved them.

The film looks at the increasingly fragile base of our North American industrial food system in order to bring all of us consumers of food to a better understanding of just what's at stake with our daily bread. It asks us to question the wisdom of a system precariously based on oil and corporate seeds while we're at the same time witnessing the impact of climate change.

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