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2011 | 10 months ago The US sent 475 tons of genetically engineered seeds (GMOs) from the Monsanto corporation to Haiti during earthquake relief efforts. Did you hear about the starving farmers in rural Haiti rejecting these seeds? Did you follow the story of the Haitian farmers banding together to burn these GMO seeds in protest?
What do they know that we don’t?
How come the USDA and the FDA do not require foods in the US to list if they are genetically modified or not? 80% of packaged foods in the US contain GMOs.
What are you eating? What are you growing?
(from their site)
Today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Massive agro-chemical companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) and Dow (Napalm) are feeding us genetically-modified food, GMO’s, that have never been fully tested and aren’t labeled. This small handful of corporations are tightening their grip on the world’s food supply—buying, modifying, and patenting seeds to ensure total control over everything we eat.
The GMO Film Project (Untitled) tells the story of a father’s discovery of GMO’s through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds in defiance of Monsanto’s gift of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake. After a journey to Haiti to learn why hungry farmers would burn seeds, the real awakening of what has happened to our food, what we are feeding our families, and what is at stake for the global food supply unfolds in a trip across the United States in search of answers.
Are we at a tipping point? Is it time to take back our food? The encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks, seed take over, chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets with the light of a growing resistance of organic farmers, concerned citizens, and a burgeoning movement to take back what we have lost.
We still have time to heal the planet, feed the world, and live sustainably. But we have to start now.
A film by Compeller Pictures
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Directed by Jeremy Seifert
Produced by Joshua Kunau
Co-Producer, Elizabeth Kucinich
Associate Producer, Timothy Vatterott
Cinematographer, Rod HasslerIt’s only 6 minutes long and fantastic. Please reblog to inform in an effort to support the full film being create, he has a kickstarter page and is so close to the 25,000 needed.
