Screening: End of the Line +panel in conjunction w/Slow Food Sacto & Natural Foods Co-op

Sunday, August 14, 2011
7:00pm (note, not 7:30)
Admission: $5.00 suggested donation
Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild
2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA


End of the Line
In conjunction with Slow Food Sacramento and the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op

Panel discussion will follow the film. The panel consists of:
Robert Duncan, Meat Department Manager, Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op;
Chef Ray Wirtz;
Pamm Larry, Label GMO's - 2012 Initiative Committee;
Mike Weber, Program Officer at Resources Law Group LLP

Sound the global alarm. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will run out of seafood by 2048 with catastrophic consequences. Based on the book by Charles Clover, "The End of the Line" explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. With Clover as his guide, filmmaker Rupert Murray crisscrosses the globe, examining what is causing the dilemma and what can be done to solve it. Industrial fishing began in the 1950s. High-tech fisheries now trawl the oceans with nets the size of football fields. Species cannot survive at the rate they are being removed from the sea. Add in cofactors of decades of bad science, corporate greed, small-minded governments, and escalating consumer demand, and we're left with a crisis of epic proportions. Ninety percent of the big fish in our oceans are now gone. Murray interweaves glorious footage from both underwater and above with scientific testimony to paint a vivid and alarming profile of the state of the sea.