Sunday 20 May 2012
The film description notes that after a journey to Haiti to find out why hungry farmers would burn seeds, the real awakening of what has happened to food in the United States and what is at stake at the global food supply.
The dangers of unknown health and environmental risks, takeover of seeds, toxins, and food monopoly meets with a growing resistance of organic farmers, concerned citizens, and a movement to take back what has been lost.
Multinational agrochemical companies such as Monsanto (known for Agent Orange, rBGH, PCBs and Roundup) and Dow (known for Napalm) are contributing towards producing genetically modified food that have never been fully labelled or fully tested. Indeed Monsanto has resisted attempts at requiring labelling.
The small handful of corporations are attempting to control everything we eat worldwide - through buying, genetically modifying, and patenting seeds.
Furthermore, there were 148 600 000 ha of GM crops worldwide in 2010 (of which 66 800 000 ha were grown in the United States alone). One can find the full statistics, as well as which GM crops are grown country-by-country, here.
However, there is still time to save our planet and protect our food supply. As mentioned in previous articles in this blog, we can also take action ourselves. In addition to demanding full labelling of food, boycott anything from big agribusiness, stick to local, organic, natural and ideally fresh produce. Avoid anything with GMO, anything resulting from factory farming or intensive farming as well as also harmful chemicals (including pesticides and herbicides).
Great video, thanks for sharing. It is heartening to see that even those in poverty will refuse free handouts realising the negative effects they will have for the planet and our future.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much wrong with our food supply today and many choose to ignore it for an easy life. More people must wake up so that reclaim control over our own lives before it is taken away by these multinational corporations!