ABOUT US
Wholesome goodness. I think it's something we can all believe in. Look around you and you'll see that, while everyone is striving for it, we often fall short of the mark. Take apple pie, for instance. One may say "American as apple pie", but we all know America has lost a great deal of it's wholesomeness (if one is to assume that it was ever wholesome in the first place). The question is what kind of America do we want? Which kind of apple pie do we choose? A close examination of the leading apple pies on the market today reveals how woefully out of touch America is with basic wholesome goodness values.
What passes for "old fashioned" or "homestyle" today? Virtually everything we eat in America today is a frightful facsimile of something wholesome and good. Apple pie, pancakes, bread, butter, gravy, grilled cheese, saurkraut, pickles and much much more. Even as the USDA uses language like "environmentally friendly" and "sustainability", as the FDA uses words like "wholesomeness", their actions tell quite a different story. We see a pattern of protecting corporate interests instead of protecting our health.
With this in mind, we created Wholesome Goodness Productions to make the documentary, Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives. The original intention was to focus on food and agriculture issues, but while researching the myriad food related stories, one thing became clear; all of these issues, along with countless others were tied to some type of corruption in our system of government. Wholesome Goodness Productions realizes that wholesome values pertain to more than just food. Is it wholesome to privatize everything from schools, to prisons, to the military? Is it wholesome to deny millions of American's access to single payer health care in order to protect the insurance and health care industries? Is it wholesome to allow oil companies to pollute the air and water of poor communities because they don't make enough campaign contributions to be heard in the halls of government?
We think not. That is why we are producing our new documentary, "Governing Under the Influence", concerning the issue of campaign financing, which we believe to be a logical place to start to turn the wheels of progress in the direction of "We the People" instead of big business. T
o find out how you can contribute to the success of this project by offering services or making a tax-deductable donation, contact info (at) wholesomegoodness (dot) org.
Fed Up!
Genetic Engineering, Industrial
Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives
TRT 60 min.
Available in DVD with English Captions and special features