Uprooted
- 2010
- 7m
Tobacco farmer Joseph Vanden Elzen was tending the land, just like the five generations of Ontario tobacco farmers who had come before him. But in 2005, in an effort to curtail the tobacco i... Read allTobacco farmer Joseph Vanden Elzen was tending the land, just like the five generations of Ontario tobacco farmers who had come before him. But in 2005, in an effort to curtail the tobacco industry, the Canadian government requested that hundreds of farmers relinquish their right... Read allTobacco farmer Joseph Vanden Elzen was tending the land, just like the five generations of Ontario tobacco farmers who had come before him. But in 2005, in an effort to curtail the tobacco industry, the Canadian government requested that hundreds of farmers relinquish their right to grow and say goodbye to their livelihoods forever. Joseph was among those who signed t... Read all