Sowing the seeds of change
This week's fifth annual Green Fair, bringing together farmers, shopkeepers, artists and consumers, is proof positive that an organic revolution is sprouting in Thailand
The premise of the film Food, Inc reads like an Orwellian take on farming and agriculture, where a multinational has patented seeds, employing dozens of private investigators and a freephone hotline to track down farmers accused of stealing them, where just 13 abattoirs have monopolised the US meat market and incubated a slew of killer viruses and are run like assembly lines, and the illegal immigrants who staff them are treated only slightly better than the animals.
IT’S EASY BEING GREEN: Scenes from previous Green Fair events. The event which started in 2007 with 50 booths of organic farmers and merchants selling their wares swelled to more than 200 stalls in 2010.
It looks like a dystopian vision of the future, except this is a documentary and it's all happening now. Many viewers find the film hard to stomach, but its silver lining is its coverage of the evolution of the alternative agriculture movement.
This article is older than 60 days, which we reserve for our premium members only.You can subscribe to our premium member subscription, here.
About the author
- Writer: Jim Algie
- Position: Writer
Latest stories in this category:
- TAXES IN THAILAND XX: VAT Part Two
- Your pension: the harsh realities
- Knowledge essential to rental riches
- As Myanmar opens, donor exit at border puts dreams in peril
- Youth wasted on beggars' road to Thailand
- I just called to say I'm locked up
- Map Ta Phut locals demand say in industrial safeguards
- Flood aid refusal 'was self defeating'
