Kaitaia's Te Ahu Cinema will be the venue for a screening of the 2016 film The Worm is Turning, billed as a provocative look at how chemical-based farming and ever-larger farms have become the norm, and who profits from that, at 6.30 this evening.
Experts describe how despite huge cash flows, the future of chemical-based farming is bleak, however.
The era of cheap fossil fuels is ending, and the price of expensive oil-based inputs such as diesel, imported feed, patented seed, herbicides, pesticides and artificial fertilisers continue to rise.
Equally important is research showing that chemical-based farming delivers not only less food per acre than small traditional farms, but produces food that is less nutritious, and impregnated with systemic poisons that persist into the processed foods that everyone eats.
Transition Towns Kaitaia, which is hosting the screening, says the film provides hope for the future with inspiring examples of organic and traditional farms in Australia, Thailand, the US and India, where farmers grow nutrition-rich food using natural processes and outperform chemical-based farming in production, profit and peace of mind.
Tickets for the screening can only be booked at the EcoCentre (in South Road, phone (09) 408-1086, info@ecocentre.co.nz), admission by koha.
