‘Common Ground’ Review: A Corporate Video Masquerading as a Documentary
thewrap.comTribeca Film Festival, where it is also claiming a Human/Nature Award. What is regenerative agriculture, you ask? It’s farming that forgoes tillage and chemicals in favor of cover crops and planned grazing – essentially, the practices of Indigenous peoples before the arrival of colonizers.Industrialization post WWII popularized the use of machinery, pesticides and herbicides in agriculture as, per the film, suppliers of tanks and chemical weapons looked to pivot to a steadier business model.
It goes on to explain the agrichemical industry’s overwhelming pull on politicians and researchers at land-grant universities.
Per Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), the public is paying multiple times: in subsidies, food assistance and Medicaid costs. Farm Bill provisions mandate what to grow.
Farmers incur massive debt purchasing pesticides and the seeds genetically modified to withstand them. Monsanto’s Roundup is widely known to be carcinogenic while Bayer, the company’s corporate parent since 2018, manufactures cancer drugs.
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