Watch The Beautiful TruthRady Ananda Compelling and potent, this 2008 docufilm celebrates how far weve come in taking back our food supply, and even acknowledges the reality that no one can verify an electronic vote count (which hand counts can rectify but only if enough precincts care enough to count the ballots say 8 workers per thousand voters). The sense of a genuine road trip and coming of age tale of this teen, as he comes to recognize the major forces acting on his health and well being, make this a nice Holiday respite from tasks and parties and bad roads. Mainstream organizations long involved in the food fight highlight the Gerson Therapy, whole foods, GMOs, MSG and more, but Andrew Kimbrell from the Center for Food Safety speaks forcefully and articulates well. Its from his lips the movie gets its title. One of the talking heads, Howard Strauss of the Gerson Institute, knocks you over by outright stating, Genetically modified foods are lethal. But thats after Joyce Riley, a military nurse, discusses Gulf War Syndrome, laying the blame on a variety of toxins including depleted uranium, vaccines, GMO foods and the fog of war. Its a feel-good, eat-good flick, even if Kimbrells enthusiasm in 08 didnt foresee the Monsanto takeover of the FDA and USDA, or the White House (given Obamas broken campaign promises to label GMOs and not appoint industry insiders). Raised on a wildlife reserve in Alaska, 15-year-old Garrett was interested in the dietary habits of the farm animals. After the tragic death of his mother, Garretts father decided to home-school his son and assigned a book written by Dr. Max Gerson that proposed a direct link between diet and a cure for cancer. Fascinated, Garrett embarks in this documentary on a cross-country road trip to investigate The Gerson Therapy. He meets with scientists, doctors and cancer survivors who reveal how it is in the best interest of the multi-billion dollar medical industry to dismiss the notion of alternative and natural cures. IMDBs Plot Summary: A troubled 15-year-old boy attempting to cope with the recent death of his mother sets out to research Dr. Max Gersons claims of a diet that can cure cancer as his first assignment for home-schooling in this documentary from filmmaker Steve Kroschel (Avalanche, Dying to Have Known). Garrett is a boy who has always been close to nature. He lives on a reserve with a menagerie of orphaned animals, and over the years hes become especially sensitive to the nutritional needs of the diet-sensitive animals hes charged with caring for. When Garretts mother suffers a tragic and untimely death, the boy falls into a dangerous downward spiral and nearly flunks out of school. Increasingly concerned for Garretts well-being and determined to strengthen their bond despite the many challenges on the horizon, his father makes the decision to begin home-schooling the distressed teen. Garretts first assignment: study a controversial book written by Dr. Max Gerson, a physician who claims to have discovered a diet thats capable of curing cancer. Is Dr. Gersons therapy truly the legitimate, alternative cure it appears to be? In order to find out the truth behind this long-suppressed treatment, Garrett interviews not only Dr. Gersons family members, but various doctors, skeptics, and cancer patients as well. [Spoiler removed] Recently from Rady Ananda: Rady Ananda is the creator of Food Freedom News and COTO Report, Rady Anandas work has appeared in several online and print publications, including four books. With a B.S. in Natural Resources from Ohio State Universitys School of Agriculture, Rady tweets @geobear7 and @RadysRant. 