Wanda's Picks Radio Show

Farmageddon director, Kristin Canty joins us to talk about Americans' right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack presently, especially those small family farms who make such choices available. Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom, encouraging farmers and consumers to take action to preserve our quickly vanishing right to produce these foods safely free from unreasonably burdensome regulations.The recent cantelop recall is testiment to the danger of commercial farm practices, dangers not inherent to the smaller agri-businesses. We see how these regulations and practices which favor, overwhelmingly the corporate structure of agri-production is tied to political support from these multibillion dollar industires which look less at healthy choices for the consumer, not to mention the animals and the land or soil, and more to profit--a shortsighted and limited way of thinking. If one is dead or sick, how useful is a huge bank account? Visit farmaggeddonmovie.com Mill Valley Film Festival 34 opens Oct. 6-16, 2011 and features many African films, among them, FESPCO winner 2011, Pegasus, dir. Mohamed Mouftakir. Fouad Challa, director, joins us from Morocco. The film screens at MVFF Oct. 7 & 9. Visit mvff.org We close with Rafael Jesus Gonzalez and Laura Inserra who speak about the second annual Art in Nature: The Nature of Art, A Free Multidisciplinary Arts Festival, October 2, 2011, 11 AM to 5 PM at the Stream Trail of Redwood Regional Park, in Oakland. Visit artinnaturefestival.org There will be shuttles leaving from Merritt College. Get tickets in advance at the program website.