| Hijacked Future - Who Controls the Seed Controls Our Food |
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Hijacked Future - Who Controls the Seed Controls Our Food Vancouver Island Vegetarian Association - Linda - Friday, September 19th, 2008, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Concerned about food security and global warming issues In this documentary, while our food supplies give the illusion of being secure, this film points out that everything rides on a few inches of top soil, which is eroding; a handful of seeds whose diversity is not only dwindling but is being encouraged to dwindle to enable tighter corporate control; and the availability of water which is also decreasing in many agricultural regions. A well-written article / review of Hijacked Future by Stephen Hume of the Vancouver Sun (Mar. 19/08) titled "Seeds of Destruction" provides the following, "Where there were once approximately 7,000 commercial sources of seeds for farmers, Springbett |
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