Sunday, March 14, 3:30 pm – Bullshit
Slow Foods 3rd Annual Film Series continues with a screening of Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian’s documentary Bullshit, at the Tufts University Friedman School, 150 Harrison Avenue, on Sunday, March 14 beginning at 3:30 pm.
Time magazine calls Vandana Shiva a hero of our times, an icon for youngsters all over the world. This film is about the Indian environmental activist and nuclear physicist, who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. It’s a film on globalization and patenting, on genetic engineering, bio-piracy, indigenous knowledge. In it, the film makers follow Shiva over a two year period, from her organic farm at the foot of the Himalayas to institutions of power all over the world. She does battle with one of her toughest opponents, Monsanto, a huge American biotech company, when they try to patent an ancient Indian strain of wheat. Together with Dalits she tries to close down a Coca-Cola plant in Kerala, in a conflict involving groundwater pollution. In this film Shiva also tackles the question of farmers’ suicide, a backlash of the globalization. The film makers describe Monsanto from the inside and arrange what proves a shaking meeting between Shiva and Barun Mitra, liberal think-tank lobbyist and fierce critic of Vandana Shiva. A speakers panel will follow immediately after the screening. Cost is $5. Log on to www.slowfoodboston.com to reserve your spaces.
