Over 50 years have passed since Jacques Cousteau won worldwide acclaim and a Palmed’Or at Cannes for his film The Silent World – one of the few important environmental films ever to come out of France. Now, from director Jean-Paul Jaud comes Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution, a moving testament to one’s community’s fight for safe food production and a healthy diet for our children – and ourselves.

Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town’s mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground – children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the victims of illnesses themselves. Revealed in these moving and often surprising conversations are the abuses of the food industry, the competing interests of agribusiness and public health, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical, sustainable solutions that we can all take part in. Food Beware is food for thought – and a blueprint for a growing revolution.

This eye-opening documentary features interviews with children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, and researchers. Food Beware takes a powerful look at the abuses of the food industry, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical solutions that everyone can take part in. This remarkable story of one community’s crusade to save their children’s health is both food for thought and a blueprint for a growing revolution.

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