Documentary – Food Chains

Food Chains This exposes the abuse of farmworkers in America and the complicity with the multibillion dollar fast food and supermarket industries. Format File: [1 DVDRip (MP4)] File Size: 944.14MB

Documentary – Food Chains

The film

Food Chains Exposes the abuse of farmworkers in the United States, as well as the complicity by the multibillion-dollar supermarket and fast food industries.

Food is gaining more attention than ever before, but there is little to no interest in those who actually pick it. The foundation of fresh food industry is the farmworkers. They are often abused and robbed off their wages. Extreme cases can see them beaten, harassed sexually or even enslaved within the United States.

Food Chains This report reveals the human costs of our food supply as well as the complicity and support of large food buyers like supermarkets and fast food chains. Fast food is big but supermarkets are larger – they earn $4 trillion annually globally. They hold enormous power over the agricultural sector. Over the last three decades, they have taken revenue out of their supply chains leaving farmworkers poor and forced to work in subhuman conditions. Many are unaware of this.

The film’s narrative focuses on a brave and highly praised group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – who are changing farm labor. Their story is one that inspires hope and promises the triumph of morality over corporate gluttony – to ensure farm workers a decent life and a more transparent food chain.

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All Educational Editions include:

2 DVD Box Set, which includes

– Three versions of the film (82, 52 and 30 minutes) are available in ENGLISH

– Three versions (82, 52, or 30 minutes) of the film in SPANISH

– Screening Discussion Guide

– Screening Kit (poster artwork, supplemental images, press kit, etc)

Testimonials

“Food Chains is the kind of film I’ve been waiting to teach from – it helps students think not only about what’s wrong with the food system, but how organizing for social change can help fix it. I know that students will come away moved, curious for more, and hungry for change – whose classroom could ask for more?”

Raj Patel

Professor of Research

Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs (UT Austin)

Author “Stuffed and Starved”

 “No documentary on the modern food system does a better job of putting farmworkers’ struggles for social justice into the broad context of 21st-century capitalism. Food Chains explores the darkest corners of America’s agricultural landscape, showing how an inspiring coalition of workers, farmers, and consumers are bending corporate might to fight for dignity in American farm fields. This is exactly the sort of provocative, well-researched film I’ve been wanting to use in my Food and Power course for years.”

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Shane Hamilton
Associate Professor
History Department
University of Georgiahttp://archive.is/OrnN0

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