Do you know where your food came from? Play the quiz show "You Don't Know Zack" and find out if your tomatoes are really tomatoes!

The farming and food production in the world is increasingly dominated by large biotechnology companies such as Monsanto, and large industrial farms and food brokers.

With out them, we can already produce more than enough food to feed the world, yet the need to maximize corporate profits has created a system which leaves billions of people hungry.

In the name of efficiency, companies are pushing genetically-engineered seeds and more pesticides, while squeezing out smaller, family farmers.

The alternative is to encourage and develop locally-grown, natural, organic foods. Here are some people who are doing just that.

Meet Katherine Webb, a head gardener at the Santa Fe Bar & Grill in Berkeley, California. She talks about her work as a restaurant gardener where the food she grows is eaten by the restaurant customers.

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Stefan Lynch runs a vegan meal delivery service business. What makes his business innovative? He prepares organically-grown food free of genetically engineered crops and delivers the meal on two wheels. On a bicycle, that is. Listen...

Other Sites

International Forum on Food and Agriculture.
Campaign for Food Safety
The Council for Responsible Genetics
Union of Concerned Scientists WTO Watch has a number of videos on agriculture and biotech issues The Campaign to label GE foods

For thousands of years, farmers have been breeding plants for certain traits. Higher yield wheat. Whiter rice. Sweeter strawberries. Smoother tomatoes. Now there is a new way: insert a new bundle of genes into a seed's DNA so that the resulting plant will have some feature that the researchers want. Resistance to frost, or certain insects, or a brand of herbicide produced by the researchers. Itís called Genetically Engineered (GE) or Genetically Modified (GM food.) Read on...