Fair Food Documentary

Fair Food Documentary

A better food system is germinating, according to a new food film.

Australia’s food system is broken but innovative farmers, businesses and communities are creating something better. In the absence of vision and leadership from most tiers of governments, and the corporate agri-food sector, these Fair Food pioneers are taking action themselves.

Major changes are desperately required. Two supermarkets control 75-80 per cent of the grocery market, dictating terms all down the food supply chain. Combined with the impacts of cheap imports undercutting their markets, this market concentration means that our farmers are walking off the land in droves, and young people don’t want to enter agriculture. Dietary-related illnesses, largely the result of an over-supply of cheap junk and fast food, are our biggest killers. Governments and corporations constantly tell us we must ‘produce more food’, but we waste half the food we now produce. Input-intensive production and sub-optimal land management means that many of our soils are eroded and degraded, and our river systems depleted. Each year we lose thousands of hectares of our best farmland to the mining industry and suburban sprawl.

Produced by the national fair food campaigning organisation, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), and food publishers and facilitators, the Field Institute, Fair Food documents the work of Australian farmers, social entrepreneurs and communities pioneering new approaches to food production, marketing and distribution.

The Cause - Noosa Smiddy Cycle event April 23-26^th 2015

Riding 550km in 4 days! The “Smiddy” part commemorates the life of Physiotherapist, and keen triathlete, Adam Smiddy who passed away after a battle with an aggressive cancer aged only 26. Smiling for Smiddy has now raised over 5 million dollars since Adam passed away in 2006. Smiling for Smiddy supports cancer research that has national and international impact. Funds enable the dedicated team of scientists at Mater Research to undertake potentially life-saving research into the causes, prevention and improved treatments of cancer.

All proceeds from screening Fair Food on this night will directly fund ovarian cancer research efforts led by Mater senior researcher and medical oncologist Dr Jim Coward who is also completing the ride.

Can’t attend the screening but still want to support this…..go to https://noosasmiddy2015.everydayhero.com/au/davidwadsworth