Think Global, Act Rural
- IMDb link: 1600731
- IMDb rating: 7.5 (353 votes) Search
- Genres: Documentary
- Director: Coline Serreau
- Cast: Dominique Guillet, Vandana Shiva, Ana Primavesi and others
- Release date: 7 Apr 2010
- Release year: 2010
- Runtime: 113 minutes
- Country: France
- Keywords: rice, planting, soil, organic food, pesticide, insecticide, farmer, france, india, f rated
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Heroic machist industrial agronomy producing heavily contaminated and modified food and arid wastelands is challenged by several world examples of sensitive organic approach to producing food.
Ukraine, South America, India, France - farmers, scientists, producers of organic food present their views as well as successes of their work with earth, which is presented in second plan as a woman. Earth as living ecosystem itself is compared to the soil sterilized and destroyed by pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, machine processing - where new crops grow only thanks to another doses of chemical stimulants. In vicious circle, food becomes dependent on and controlled by oil & industry, food barely edible, while seeds - which should not be owned and marketed as such - are reduced to a few state-allowed modified species and sold. The macho-hero approach of controlling, forcing and raping of the earth is becoming the subject of irony, criticism and appeal - in more layers - social, economic, agronomic.
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