Genetically Modified Movie

Elizabeth Hart
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Biotech activist Dr. Vandana Shiva is a featured voice in Marie-Monique Robin’s new documentary, The World According to Monsanto. “If they control seed, they control food,” says Shiva. “They know it. That's more powerful than bombs. It's more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world.” And indeed the Monsanto Corporation controls the world’s seed.  In the past ten years, they have bought over 50 of the world’s seed companies, they provide seeds for 90 percent of the world’s genetically modified crops, and their relentless Round-Up campaign has convinced farmers around the globe that their destructive method of GMO farming is safe for humans and the environment.

Robin, a farmer’s daughter who has spent twenty-five years as an investigative journalist, uses the film to channel her outrage, resulting in the most comprehensive film about Monsanto’s crimes to date. She takes us from Anniston, Alabama, where Monsanto dumped one million pounds of PCBs into local waterways, to rural Paraguay, where Round-Up herbicide has caused illness and physical deformation in the children, and to India, where suicide is seen as a farmer’s only retreat from Monsanto.

The World According to Monsanto explores Monsanto’s hundred-year history as a chemical company (the same guys that brought you Agent Orange), it’s aggressive formation and implementation of patent laws to create Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), and the heartbreaking impact its policies have on human health. All of which, says Robin, adds up to the greatest threat to human rights of our time.

See an interveiw with Robin or  watch the trailer:

Comments

Scary Stuff

Submitted by Spiralyst on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 14:45.

I read an article on Red Ice Creations detailing how Monsanto, the Rockefellers, and The Bill Gates Foundation all have major controlling interest in the seed vaults around the globe, as well. It seems more than a little dicey that the same company investing its resources into creating "terminator" seed technology is also responsible for the preservation of our castrophe insurance plan.

In our research planning the groundwork for our local community garden, we located several organizations in our area, most operating through the local university extension offices, focused on seed sharing programs. Essentially, anyone starting a garden is able to obtain seeds from one of these agencies. In return, the recipient harvests their seeds and returns 30% to the agency, as well as 30% to other local farmers.

Our research was limited to Georgia, but I'm fairly certain these programs exist everywhere. Check with your local university, especially if it has an agriculture program.

It's difficult confine GMO plants...

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horrible

Submitted by apples on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 04:52.
I really can not understand how a few people can do this to the planet and to the entire human race and be able to sleep at night. I really can't. It's so sad.

Greedy People

Submitted by DeusExLibrus on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 02:13.
The sad fact is that all some people give a flying frack about is money. Personally I don't get it either, but thats just how it is.

it's hard

Submitted by sampmusical on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 00:35.
not to believe that something will happen worldwide soon when such powerful companies and people create a seed bank so that we still have seeds if "something" happens to our planet. I think these guys know something is up and that's why they chose this specific time to create that seed bank. It's also so hard not to believe something will happen soon when almost every area of life: politics, war, economics, health care, and now agriculture are all seemingly controlled by very power hungry people with ill-intent.

we run a dereg buisness

Submitted by JeJoue on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 13:12.
something needs to be done. it sounds genocide of a monopoly

Genetic Engineering

Submitted by sniffcode.com on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 08:34.
I read a book awhile back called "Salt." Much like oil, entire nations would go to war over bodies of water that were rich in salt. It also brought up the larger picture of how a Nation's Sovereign Wealth is contingent almost exclusively on natural resources -- something that everybody needs. Hence, the invasion of countries for their sugar and fruit plantations (think U.S. Sugar and our largest Fruit Manufacturers) and now invasions for oil. These days I'm wondering if within the next 50 years, the conflict will shift from natural resources to synthetic one's. I suppose Genetically Engineered food still qualifies as a "natural" resource, but there are so many synthetic chemicals that Monsanto has hooked farmers on that the value shifts away from the food itself and towards the synthetic products to make the food more abundant (i.e. their milk producing hormones for cows). Medication and prescription drugs are another example. There is no shortage of sick people in the world, and it seems that synthetic drugs may soon take the lead, even ahead of oil and food, in the ability to generate wealth. Having said all that, here's a direct quote from Bob Shapiro of Monsanto "It is truly easy to make a great deal of money dealing with the primary needs: food, shelter, clothing etc." www.sniffcode.com

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