3/5 Growing Healthy
  by Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
"Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution"

Growing Healthy

Amos Lassen


There is a tremendous rise in disease which seem to be connected to factors in our environment while at the same time we are eating more healthy than ever before.
In "Food Beware" we go to a small French village and it is there that we learn that the mayor's wife has made the school lunch program both organic and locally grown. Not everyone agrees with this and we have a section of interviews in which we learn how the food industry is in ways related to the abuses that our bodies have suffered. Agriculture is big business with its own vested interests and when we think about it, we realize that this big business is ruled by the almighty dollar.
The film assumes that pesticides are what are causing cancer in children but it offers no proof. It is not only pesticides that cause cancer and this was unfortunately not stated.
What the film really does is to indict the viewer for raising children who are the first generation to eat less nutritious foods than their parents. It is a call for organic food and away from anything that has been tainted by pesticides. The film concentrates on children and we see how they eat.
I found the film to be way too long and entirely too repetitive but otherwise it is an eye opener.