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GMO-Free Europe Conference 2010, Brussels, Vandana Shiva
At the GMO-Free Europe Conference 2010, Vandana Shiva takes stock of resistance against the takeover of agriculture by the biotech industry. A great roundup of the GMO battle. (Total time: 19:49)
Fox News kills Monsanto story
The extraordinary story of the suppression by Fox News executives of an investigative news report on a genetically engineered hormone. The story was killed after pressure from the corporation that developed it - Monsanto, which is affiliated with top Fox advertisers. The station first asked the journalists to change the story and when they refused, Fox then offered to pay the reporters to keep quiet, before finally firing them and refusing to air their report. (Time 9:59)
Monsanto vs Seed Cleaner Moe Parr
Moe Parr is a seed cleaner in Indiana, USA. In February 2007, Monsanto initiated a lawsuit against him. The biotech company claimed that Moe had encouraged GM soybean farmers to save their seed. Moe is one of many farmers in North America who've faced coercion from Monsanto through legal and economic pressure. (Time: 2:13)
Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide
Monsanto's culpability in the high suicide rate of cotton farmers in Central India. (Time 5:00)
CBC News Report on GM Safety and Containment (or lack of it)
The CBC's national news takes a look at how GM crops are being monitored in Canada. (Time 9:54)
The Future of Food
The Future of Food, a groundbreaking documentary released in 2004, distills the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the troubling changes happening in the food system today - genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food - into terms the average person can easily understand. It empowers consumers to understand the consequences of their food choices on our future. (Time 9:49)
Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Much of the cheap meat and dairy produce sold in supermarkets is only made possible as a result of serious human rights abuses and environmental damage in one of Latin America's most impoverished countries. This film documents the experiences of some of those caught up in Paraguay's growing conflict over soy farming. (Time 10:00)
Stuffed, Starved and Sprayed: Raj Patel on GM crops, Agroecology and Globalized Corporate Agriculture
Raj Patel has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, and has worked for the World Bank and WTO. Among other books he is the author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System (http://www.rajpatel.org). Here he talks about GM crops and globalized corporate agriculture, as well as the planet-wide democratic push for 'agro-ecology,' and their relation to California's movement to Stop the Spray. (Time 24:46)
The World According to Monsanto
The World According to Monsanto is an in-depth documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural industry by one of the world’s most insidious and powerful companies. This is a powerful, must-see film for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes world of the food industry, and shows how just one world-dominating corporation holds the keys and patents to much of the world's food supply. (Time 1:49:01)
Genetically Engineered Crops in Agriculture
Greenpeace film providing good overview of the issues and some interesting facts and figures. (Time 3:51)
The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution
Anuradha Mittal, an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights, democracy, and agriculture issues, speaks on the myths of genetic engineering. (Time: 45:48)
Everything You Have to Know about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods
Expert Jeffrey M. Smith presents shocking evidence why genetically modified crops may lead to health and environmental catastrophes, and what we can do about it. (Time: 1:24:44)
A Silent Forest
The Growing Threat of Genetically Engineered Trees. This award winning documentary film explores the growing global threat of genetically engineered trees to our environment and to human health. The film features renowned geneticist and host of PBS' The Nature of Things David Suzuki, who explores the unknown and possibly disastrous consequences of improperly tested GE methods.(Total time 46:16)
Farmers Speak: Bust Up Big Ag
There are 2 million farmers and 300 million consumers in the US. Standing in between are a handful of companies who control how food gets from one side to the other. (Time 7:25)
Prof Seralini Interviewed About Organ Damage Linked to GM Maize
This is an interview with Prof. Gilles-Eric Séralini, the leader of the research team from the Committee of Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN) and the Universities of Caen and Rouen which obtained Monsanto's confidential raw data of its 2002 feeding trials on rats, after a European court made it public in 2005. The data "clearly underlines adverse impacts on kidneys and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, as well as different levels of damages to heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system," reported Prof. Séralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen. Their December 2009 study appeared in the International Journal of Biological Sciences (IJBS). (Time: 9:38)
