The Future of Food distills the complex technology and consumer issues surrounding major changes in the food

system today -- genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food -- into terms the average person can understand. It empowers consumers to realize the consequences of their food choices on our future.

The Future of Food has been a key tool in the American and international anti-GMO grassroots activist movements and played widely in the environmental and activist circuits since its release in 2004. The film is widely acknowledged for its role in educating voters and the subsequent success of passing Measure H in Mendocino County, California, one of the first local initiatives in the country to ban the planting of GMO crops. Indicative of its popularity, the Future of Food showed to a sold out audience of 1,500 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in 2004, a benefit for Slow Food, where it was introduced by Alice Waters. In September 2005, The Future of Food made a highly acclaimed national theatrical premiere at Film Forum in New York, followed by a tour of more than a dozen major American cities in the fall. Applauded by technology writers, food policy experts and environmental activists, the film has been shown around the worldfrom a plaza in Oaxaca, Mexico to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, and in citizen screenings all over the worldfrom India, Kenya, and Bulgaria to Brazil and Indonesia. It screened at a wide variety of professional gatherings, including the Midwestern Organic Farmers Convention, the Organic Trade Association 2005 trade show and conference in Chicago, and the American Dietetic Association convention. Columbia and New York Universities showed it to their students. Throughout 2006, the film continued to be shown globally to the public and at conferences, such as The Soil Association Convention in London and the Japanese Organic Farmers Convention. Garcia was the keynote speaker at the Nutrition and Health - State of the Science Conference put on by Dr. Andrew Weil and Columbia Medical School in New York City. The film had sold out premiers in Paris, Amsterdam and London and was screened in Turin, Italy for Slow Foods Terra Madre 2006, a gathering of 5,000 farmers and food producers from around the world; and at the Conference on Women and Food Solidarity in Dehra Dun, India. Since 2004 The Future of Food has been featured at numerous film festivals including The Margaret Mead Film Festival, The American Film Institute/ Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Festival, The Slow Food Film Festival, and the New Zealand Film Festival. The film has won awards for Best Doc at deadCENTER Film Festival; audience awards at both the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Ashland Independent Film Festival; and the Human Rights Award at the Taos Film Festival. It was chosen by the Oscar screening committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as one of the best documentaries of 2004. To date, The Future of Food has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and Japanese. An Educational Edition of The Future of Food with a year-long, university level curriculum by Professor Joshua Muldavin was released in Fall 2007.

In 2009, The Future of Food continues to be shown throughout the world at film festivals, in classrooms, and as part of environmental, farming and cultural events. The film continues to enjoy the support of a wide range of organizationsfrom the Organic Consumers Association, to the Soil Association of Britain, to Slow Food. Genetic engineering of food crops is as controversial today as ever, as many of the large agro corporations that use this technology position themselves as the answer to the world food crisis and further consolidate the seed supply. The Future of Food continues to be a key tool used by activists and educators who call for increased attention to this issue.

As centuries of experience and awareness have shown, Nature provides some of the best solutions in many concerns of health and products for healing. Most of the diseases in the industrialized world today are Life Style Diseases. It is suggested this is resulting from not being in harmony with the pace and lifestyle of a more natural, less mechanized world. The philosophy of acute care requiring methods to alleviate life threatening situations such as infections, etc.leads to pharmaceutical agents that are for the most part very effective and specific in their means of action. The longer term developed degenerative diseases such as arthritis, age onset diabetes, certain cancers, nervous conditions, digestive and cardiovascular disorders are often directly life style related, i.e., what and how we use and do to our bodies . . . foods we eat, or do not eat, activities performed or not performed, stress levels and how we handle stress, etc. These chronic degenerative life style related diseases are often preventable or at the very least able to be delayed. By incorporating a sound and sane life style with specific nutritional products and protocols, one can provide support for various systems of the bodies we carry and nourish throughout life. This in no way counters the philosophy of using, when required, pharmaceutical agents to address acute infections or diseases. On the other end of the spectrum, life style and performance enhancement based on natural products can be incorporated to achieve results that are immediately rewarding and strengthening of the various body systems. These systems include the cardiovascular, digestive, musculoskeletal, nervous, dermatological, glandular/ endocrine, and immune systems. There are thousands of published studies in referred medical journals proving the benefits to add functionality and performance, longevity, cure malfunction, help in repair of the components of these specific systems. Ulcers can be treated with natural immune fractions to prevent the adherence of H pylori to the wall of the pylorus, brain function noticeably improved with Alpha GPC ( a form of choline used in Europe for preventing loss of brain function), sugar levels normalized with various plant extracts, cancer prevented with soy components, heart function improved with a variety of nutriceuticals, sports performance improved with creatine compounds, etc. There are hundreds of patents awarded for these applications, and hundreds of thousands of case studies that prove the benefit of natural therapies and compounds.

For over two decades Future Foods has focused in this natural products arena, starting with organic farming methods, vitamin research, clinical nutrition programs, and subtle micronutrients that become the new product mainstays in the health food marketplace (new antioxidants, immune modulators, herbal remedies, phytonutrients, natural antimicrobial factors, and new discoveries as they are validated). With it's recent partnering with international and domestic manufacturers, Future Foods has created the ability to manufacture worldwide natural ingredients and provide service as a raw material supplier for the supplement industry. The Future Food's team includes individuals with backgrounds in research laboratory design, separation technology, food quality assurance, clinical nutrition, natural product chemistry, marine biology, biotechnology, process development engineering, and chemical manufacturing and extraction. This talent is combined at Future Foods to provide custom elegant cutting edge products such as the high genistein isoflavone extract Genistein Plus, superior herb extracts, sports nutrition ingredients, and bulk compounds for the industry. As a growth industry, these creative forces and resources at play allow us to be at the cutting edge where new product formulas and materials are found. Future Foods has products available in the following areas: Dairy based products: milk biologics such as high titer colostrum with immune factors, antibodies, transfer factors, lactoferrin, and other naturally occurring health promoting factors farm sourced of value in human nutrition. Land based products: Future Foods is a commercial source of soy isoflavones and other soy derived nutriceuticals, such as Alpha GPC, Progesterone form soy sterols, etc. Freeze dried organically grown herbs are also commercially available. Our worldwide network is excellent at product sourcing for your specific herb ingredient requirements. Ocean based products: Future Foods offers an odorless marine lipid concentrate with the higher value of the eicosanoids Epa and Dha. These domestic US marine lipid concentrates will prove to set a new standard in the omega oil ingredients as the consumer will prefer the user friendly taste quality. Additionally Future Foods can custom manufacture blended omega oils from the ocean and the land, resulting in a balance of omega oils as the customer requires. Laboratory synthesis and separation: This includes ingredients found in natural products concentrated for a more effective and standardized format. With the growth of the nutriceutical category, many large basic chemical and food processing companies are approaching Future Foods to act as their marketing eyes and ears, and in some cases feet for entering this category. As a result Future Foods has primary ingredient positions for a variety of new ingredients coming online in the next millennium that will prove to set the standard for quality product applications. This includes tocotrienols, soy sterols, rice products, egg based products such as lysozyme, natural antimicrobial, various peptide, carbohydrates such

as alpha glucans, herb extracts such as Kava kava, saw palmetto, rosemary extract, and other custom extracts. Our post processing capability includes custom blending, agglomeration of various powders for solubility/ instantizing, micronizing, etc. to result in such products as the finest micronized creatine, colostrum that will blend easily in drink formulations, and isoflavones that are custom manufactured for food applications and supplements. As the R&D team of Future Foods includes a patent holder of a proprietary and economical method of separating active compounds from a variety of natural feedstock sources such as herbs, plants, dairy, and other starting materials, special projects are sought for development and eventual manufacturing to address the market for new and unique compounds.