‘Feeding Tomorrow’: New documentary will make you rethink where your food comes from
The livestock industry is responsible for 14.5 percent of global emissions, and it’s also a leading driver of deforestation and habitat destruction. In the last century and a half, 50 percent of the planet’s topsoil, where most of the soil’s nutrients are held, and where seeds germinate and plants grow, has been lost. Feeding Tomorrow proves it doesn’t have to be this way.
CHARLOTTE POINTING: ‘Feeding Tomorrow’ is the people who grow food and the people who eat food working together to transform the entire ecology of the planet,” says farmer Mark Shepard in the new documentary Feeding Tomorrow, released on January 23.
The film, which has already won multiple awards, including Best Feature Documentary at the Ceres Food Film Festival, guides viewers through the current reality of the food system, which prioritizes fast and cheap production, and as a result, is destroying ecosystems, fuelling climate change, and threatening our health. But, as the name suggests, the key focus of Feeding Tomorrow is also the many solutions that are already available to us when it comes to fixing this broken food system.
Right now, the livestock industry is responsible for 14.5 percent of global emissions, and it’s also a leading driver of deforestation and habitat destruction. But even in crop farming, agriculture is replacing natural vegetation, leading to soil erosion and vast land degradation. In the last century and a half, 50 percent of the planet’s topsoil—where most of the soil’s nutrients are held, and where seeds germinate and plants grow—has been lost.
Feeding Tomorrow proves it doesn’t have to be this way. Shepard, one of the central figures of the film, is renowned for taking a worn-out Wisconsin farm and turning it into one of the most ambitious and advanced permaculture sites in the whole of North America. Instead of depleting the land, Shepard’s approach helps to regenerate it. Under permaculture practices, ecosystems flourish, and they become adaptive and resilient, too, and all of this helps to create a healthier, more sustainable base for food production.
The film also follows nutritionist Lisa McDowell, who built the first working hospital farm to emphasize the potential medicinal benefits of plant-based foods, as well as Thabiti Brown, an educator with a holistic approach that prioritizes the health and well-being of children. Because, as well as being good for the earth, localized, plant-forward approaches to food are good for our health, too. SOURCE…
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