This documentary: The World According to Monsanto is a must watch. An Absolute Must Watch. It reveals Monsanto's history, product strategy, crop domination and just quite frankly, control over plants.
My family has direct experience with the poisonous power of Roundup. We have a small garden and wanted to grow corn, a variety of corn that comes from Taiwan 30+ years ago. We planted the seeds in the ground, and there is a neighboring field that has GMO corn on it that uses Roundup. We were excited about our variety of corn, especially to taste this traditional variety that we had saved from so long ago. Our corn stalks grew over the summer, looking strong and tall. At harvest time when all the GMO corn was getting harvested, we had NOTHING TO HARVEST on our corn. It was like our plants grew but none of the stalks produced corn to pick, not one ear.
Now, this is the power of controlling someone's food. Monsanto's seed dominates, kills the reproduction of our seed, and we have nothing to eat. What we grow does not produce. We are left with having to purchase Monsanto's seed, Monsanto's herbicide, Monsanto's fertilizer...and perhaps for so many Americans and people around the world is later, Monsanto's cancer.
Monsanto has developed many GMO crops, as well as rBGH (bovine growth hormone for cows), Agent Orange and many other chemicals used in biotechnology.
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Someone wants to control your food
I have found neither food nor love today as I watched an incredible movie on hulu called The Future of Food.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
This is a must see - extremely informative, and it has given me new information in making food decisions. The food you and I consume do not come from a "variety" of sources. Monsanto, along with other large agri-companies, has developed and "owns" via patents the seeds used to grow food in the U.S. These companies have been patenting these genetically modified seeds so that every time a plant grows with these genes, they own it (therefore, you may have to pay them royalties if their GM seed blew from your neighbor's yard into yours). Life multiplies on its own, and Monsanto wants to own every life form that the GM seed contaminates. The consequence? They own your plants and your food. They alter your health due to the "biotechnology" they have or have not figured out. They have taken away biodiversity, nature, health, freedom...
They claim genetically modified food (GM) is "substantially" comparable. It is not the same -- down to the molecular level. The food will not react to your body the same, just as it reacts to pesticides differently. Today, GM food fills our supermarket shelves and produce sections in the United States.
We need to work for consumer's choice - clear labeling and explanation of genetically modified foods. Give people choice on whether they want to risk their health in eating GM food as opposed to making people buy and eat it with no choice, explanation or responsibility.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
This is a must see - extremely informative, and it has given me new information in making food decisions. The food you and I consume do not come from a "variety" of sources. Monsanto, along with other large agri-companies, has developed and "owns" via patents the seeds used to grow food in the U.S. These companies have been patenting these genetically modified seeds so that every time a plant grows with these genes, they own it (therefore, you may have to pay them royalties if their GM seed blew from your neighbor's yard into yours). Life multiplies on its own, and Monsanto wants to own every life form that the GM seed contaminates. The consequence? They own your plants and your food. They alter your health due to the "biotechnology" they have or have not figured out. They have taken away biodiversity, nature, health, freedom...
They claim genetically modified food (GM) is "substantially" comparable. It is not the same -- down to the molecular level. The food will not react to your body the same, just as it reacts to pesticides differently. Today, GM food fills our supermarket shelves and produce sections in the United States.
We need to work for consumer's choice - clear labeling and explanation of genetically modified foods. Give people choice on whether they want to risk their health in eating GM food as opposed to making people buy and eat it with no choice, explanation or responsibility.
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