Epoch Documentary Explores Government Control Over Food: ‘Will You Eat the Bugs?’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Epoch Original announced the release date for its new original documentary NO FARMER NO FOOD: WILL YOU EAT THE BUGS? which explores the government’s involvement in food and farming.
“This original documentary uncovers the distressing government control over food sources all over the world, including a new war waged against farmers and an agenda to increase consumer acceptance of edible insects,” PR Newswire reported.
Epoch Original’s synopsis adds, “NO FARMERS NO FOOD: WILL YOU EAT THE BUGS? is an Epoch Original documentary exposing the hidden agenda behind global ‘Green Policies,’ the untold stories of farmers forced out of business, the disruption this will have on our food supply, and why edible bugs are suddenly being pushed to the fore as a ‘Global Green Solution.’”
According to the No Farmers No Food website, “EpochTV program FACTS MATTER host Roman Balmakov travels around the world to investigate this next global food crisis that is being ignored by the world’s media.”
“With the project, I hope to bring the plight of the farmers to light, as well as to expose the existential threat to all Americans that a ‘Green Leap Forward’ represents,” Balmakov said. “These policies are handcuffing farmers and forcing them off their generational lands.”
PR Newswire added that the documentary explores “the rapidly changing landscape of our global food source—the farming industry—through interviews with farmers in the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, and the United States. This is the next global crisis that is being ignored by the world’s media.”
“The attack on our farmers is so jaw-dropping, I just felt these stories needed a platform to be shared,” Katherine Lee, a producer, stated. “I know that our work on NO FARMERS NO FOOD will do just that, give voice to the silenced farming community.”
“It’s not a war on farming; it’s a war on small farming and independent farmers, it’s a war in support of elite, large-scale agricultural industries,” Sterling Burnett, who leads Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy expressed.
Texas farmer Lynn “Bugsy” Allen added, “People don’t realize what’s fixing to hit them. They think it’s tough right now. You give it until October; food prices are going to double [because of regulations impacting farmers].”
Martin Neppelenbroek, a Dutch farmer, explained, “I can’t run a farm on 5 percent. For me, it’s over and done with…in view of the regulations, I can’t sell it to anybody. Nobody wants to buy it. [But] the government wants to buy it. And that’s why they [have] those regulations, I think.”
Catch NO FARMER NO FOOD: WILL YOU EAT THE BUGS? on Epoch TV on September 25.