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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)
Grains of Truth - The real cost of America's GMO harvest
American and Canadian farmers speak out against seed patents and genetically engineered (GE) crop contamination in North America. The farmers express concerns that they cannot guarantee their crops are GE free. (Time: 11:30)
Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide
Monsanto's culpability in the high suicide rate of cotton farmers in Central India. (Time 5:00)
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)
A Disaster in Search of Success - Bt Cotton in Global South
The Deccan Development Society aims to warn farmers of the dangers of introducing Bt Cotton and other GMOs onto their farms. This video, made by The Community Media Trust, a wing of the Deccan Development Society, charts the negative impact Bt Cotton has on farmers in the global South. (Time: 50:04)
GMO Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser
Percy Schmeiser has been growing canola for 40 years. He's been experimenting, developing his own varieties, using his own seed. Then Monsanto, the giant multinational agro-chemical company that is at the forefront of developing genetically modified foods, accused him of patent infringement and demanded restitution for its seeds. They stole his plants, seeds and research because of cross-pollination with GMO plants that other people had planted. If GMOs contaminate your crops, Monsanto owns your crop and will sue you. "I never put those plants on my land," says Schmeiser. "The question is, where do Monsanto's rights end and mine begin?" (Time 13:28)
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)
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)
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)
Monsanto Will Own All Seed
US courts have ruled that even if a farmer's plants are accidentally pollinated by Monsanto's GM seed, the resulting seeds and plants are the property of Monsanto. Monsanto budgets $10 million each years to investigate and sue farmers who are not paying royalties. (Total time: 9:55)
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)
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)
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)
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)
How to Monopolize Food - Monsanto Style
Democracy Now interviews, Vanity Fair's James Steel who co-authored an article called Monsanto's harvest of fear, profiling some of Monsanto's controversial corporate practices. (Total time: 17:55)
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)
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)
