If it is true that you are what you eat as the old adage has it, then what does that make us? As consumers have heavily

processed, chemically treated, GMO infested gunk. We in the modern developed world have solved the problem of hunger that plagued

our forebears since time immemorial by handing our food sovereignty over to a handful of corporate

conglomerates.

The result of this handover has been the creation of a factory farming system in which genetically

engineered crops are doused in glyphosate and livestock are herded into tiny pens, where they live their

entire lives in fetid squaller, pumped up with antibiotics and growth hormones until they

are slaughtered and shipped off to the supermarkets and

fast food chains. There are plenty of documentaries and exposays detailing the

dangers of this industrial farming system that we find ourselves beholden to.

Any number of activists wringing the alarm about these problems.

Numerous campaigns and marches organized to raise awareness about these issues.

Yet still, nation after nation gets fatter and sicker

as traditional diets based on fresh produce

sourced from local farmers are displaced by the fast food pink

slime sourced from the industrial farms of the big food oligopoly.

But as bad as things may be, they're about to get even worse. As crisis after

crisis disrupts the food supply, the solution to these problems, has already been prepared.

New technologies are coming online that threaten to upend our understanding of food altogether.

Technologies that could, ultimately, begin altering the human species itself.

This is your guide to the future of food.

You are watching the Corbett Report. So what is food anyway to a normal human being whose head is screwed on straight, that sounds like a

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