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What is the Future of Your Food?
Garcia's interest in the science behind food and how it could be manipulated
started very early as a teenager experimenting on mutating seeds and plants
with radiation and chemicals. Back then, there
was no problem comparing untainted plants with mutated ones, Garcia says, as the
latter were thicker, bigger and more deformed. That long-ago
experiment Garcia conducted made such a profound impression, she maintained her
keen interest in agriculture -- opting then for organic foods over
conventionally grown ones -- even as she studied filmmaking at the Originally, the
film was going to be about pesticides, until it took a completely different and
important direction based on a tip from a fellow filmmaker and farmer about the
blight of
genetically modified (GM) foods, a crisis in the making about which many
Americans feel
lukewarm, at best.
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