Ripe for Change

MID-LENGTH DOC

Ripe for Change

Director: Emiko Omori
Filmmaker in person
RIPE FOR CHANGE is an essential documentary for our time. It surveys the intersection of food and politics in California over the last thirty years from the 1960s, when food and the way it was grown entered political dialogue, to present concerns about health and diminishing resources. Today, while organic food is the fastest growing agricultural sector, large-scale farming is still addicted to fossil fuels. What are the trade-offs between the production of large quantities of food and the health of workers, consumers and the planet? How do we create sustainable agricultural practices? RIPE FOR CHANGE provides solutions to these questions with examples like community supported agriculture (CSA) and Mendocino County's Measure H, which bans the use of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). Provocative commentary by well-known farmers, chefs, authors and scientists-- including Alice Waters, David Mas Masumoto, Richard Heinberg and Miguel Altieri--illuminates the struggle to define the future of California's agriculture. (2005, 57 min.)
Showing: May 19, 12:30pm, Matheson