Fed Up - Official Trailer

[TalkingDog]

FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.

[DeSwiss]

1. We're being systematically poisoned -- for profits.

Polluted foods. Polluted water. Polluted air. Polluting plastics at every turn. And when we get the cancers, the diabetes, the Alzheimers, the immune system disorders, we've become so sick and inured to the very system that brought us to where we are, that we can't make the connection on how we got here.

- It's simple: ''You are what you eat.''

K&R

[Stuart G]

2. More Info on this film..From IMBD...Opens May 9

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381335/?ref_=nv_sr_1

IMBD, Internet Movie Data Base

[zebonaut]

3. Republican Corporations that sell America cheap processed sugared starch

and create a Diabetes epidemic while blaming Americans for being lazy

[yuiyoshida]

4. SO IF you had to take an educational guess.....

HOW MUCH will this film change America? ... I am guessing NOT BY MUCH.

[Stuart G]

5. Perhaps if it gets 10 people to understand and change, that is good.

If just 10 people whose lives are totally changed by this movie, then it will be a success. That is my opinion.

[KurtNYC]

6. Here is my educational guess

Educational because it involves a timeline of similar events:

1940 - "Look to the Land" is published, the term "organic farming" is coined
1947 - "Soil and Health" is published
1962 - "Silent Spring" is published, bringing national attention to DDT use
1967 - Environmental Defense Fund is formed, they target DDT use
1969 - Time magazine covers the 13th fire on the Cayhoga River, and eventually spurs the Clean Water Act
1970 - Earth Day becomes annual event
1973 - the US bans DDT due to the public uproar originally started by "Silent Spring"
1989 - 60 Minutes cover the use of alar on apples
1990 - Congress creates national standards for organic labeling
2001 - "Fast Food Nation" released in book form
2001 - Congress passes Final Organic Rule, prohibiting irradiation, sewage sludge and GE seed in organic labeled produce
2004 - "Supersize Me!" is released by Morgan Spurlock
2006 - Al Gore and the producers of "Fed Up" release "Inconvenient Truth"
2007 - "An Inconvenient Truth" wins Academy Award for Best Documentary
2010 - "Food Inc" released
2010 - State of California starts Transparency in Supply Chains to avoid slavery and human trafficking in food production
5/9/2014 - "Fed Up" is released

So how much will Fed Up change America?

A: In combination with major books and documentaries that has come before and everything that will follow, "Fed Up" will raise awareness, increase consumer demand for labeling, drive Congressional actions to give consumers more information and choices and highlight healthier choices for our health and the health of our environment. Specifically this documentary can stop the myth that we are all becoming fatter because we "are lazy" or "are eating way too much." Once we stop blaming the wrong things we can work on the real problems.

Thanks for asking!

[yuiyoshida]

7. Maybe I am a bit on the

cynical side but when it takes great effort for The President to get congress to pass the minimum wage deal and he has to fight Republicans who are bent on trying to take out "Obamacare"...I find that this "do-nothing" congress will continue to be this way, even into the next Presidency...(Provided the Republicans don't cheat, and the Democrats get our candidate in.) This is going to be an uphill battle and not as easy as any of us, might want it. I would like to hope you are correct, but look what we have seen in the last two years. Everything is an uphill battle.

[KurtNYC]

8. Fortunately it is not up to Congress. This is a massive consumer-based movement.

Congress didn't create organic standards until well into the organic movement. Consumers didn't wait for the government to get on board, this train left without them.

Whole Foods is major buyer for produce and processed foods. They have their own GMO labeling program under way and their goal is to label everything by 2018.

The biggest part of the push back against labeling is coming from food processing companies who know that once consumers have a choice the demand for GMO and will fall and their costs will rise in the transition. They are trying to keep that genie in the bottle but it is a losing battle. We are no longer limited to the laws and studies done in the US -- foreign entities and countries with single payer healthcare are leading the way against unhealthy foods because they want to reduce their healthcare expenditures.

Also the movement to growing your own foods locally is huge and spans the political spectrum from RW preppers who think that the collapse of civilization is imminent (because a black man is President), to the LWers who don't trust corporate food. Politics aside we are going to get to a point soon where conventionally grown foods will cost more than organics because of the rising cost of all the petroleum based inputs and the American consumer makes most of their decisions based on price alone.

[yeoman6987]

9. I was curious to see how the movie has been doing

Well it has only made 368,000 dollars in 10 days. Not too good when The Neighbors makes 50 million and Godzilla makes 95 million in two days. We need more exposure to educational films.