Corporate takeover videos
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One of the greatest concerns about genetic engineering is the way in which it facilitates the corporate takeover of the food supply. These videos show how GM crops are removing the ability of farmers to freely use their own seeds or grow food in the way they choose.
Dr Suman Sahai: Power, plurality and uncertainty and the global politics of scientific advice
A fascinating talk by Dr Suman Sahai of GeneCampaign containing a powerful indictment of the science of GMOs. She talks about how the need to protect the money and power invested in "dominant paradigms", such as the Green Revolution, GMOs and Nanotechnology, has skewed our science. When implementing such technologies, lip service is paid to things like the precautionary principle and the social/economic effect of such technologies, but they have little influence on if or how these technologies are to be implemented. (Time: 19:57)
Monsanto's Government Orgy | Brainwash Update
Abby Martin takes a closer look at the incestuous relationship between the White House and Monsanto, by calling out Romney and Obama's longstanding ties with the company. (Time: 5:14)
Does 'biopiracy' endanger world food supplies?
India could be the first country to take legal action against agribusiness giant Monsanto for so-called "biopiracy" – or taking indigenous farming knowledge to develop genetically modified crops. Are biotech corporations trying to monopolise and patent the world's food supply? (Time: 33:41)
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)
Vandana Shiva - Seeds and Seed-multinationals
Many Indian farmers face ruin because the genetically modified BT cotton from Monsanto, first approved in 2002, rendered them diastrous yields. Hoping for higher crop yields and fewer chemicals, the farmers werepersuaded to purchase the genetically modified seeds at quadruple the price. Yet the anticipated bumper crop failed to materialize. Disease and insect-ridden plants forced the farmers to use even more of the expensive chemicals, driving their bank depts higher. For many farmers the only escape from these accumulated debts is suicide. In all of India over 20.000 farmers committed suicide in the last few years. (Time: 6:10)
Scientists under Attack - Genetic Engineering in the magnetic Field of Money TRAILER
Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common. They are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. Both scientists choose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering. Both made important discoveries. Both of them are suffering the fate of those who criticise the powerful vested interests that now dominate big business and scientific research. (Time: 3:19)
The Silence of the Pandas
A year in the making, this film from the award-winning German film maker Wilfried Huismann will dispel the green image of the WWF. Behind the organisation's eco-facade, the film uncovered explosive stories from all around the world. This documentary seeks to reveal the secrets of the WWF. It is a journey into the heart of the green empire and may shatter public faith in the panda forever.
Update June 2012: The German broadcaster ARD has been forced to remove access to this film on the internet pending the outcome of a lawsuit brought by WWF against the film maker, Wilfried Huismann. Therefore it is not currently viewable. We will keep you updated.
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)
GM Crops Farmer to Farmer
Michael Hart is a conventional livestock family farmer based in Cornwall, England. He investigates the reality of farming genetically modified crops in the USA ten years after their introduction. He travels across the US interviewing farmers and other specialists about their experiences of growing GM. For nearly thirty years Michael has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for over fifteen years, travelling extensively in Europe, India, Canada and the USA. (Time: 23:31)
Bad Seed: The Dangerous Truth About Our Food
A selection of intellectual greats - Fritjof Capra, Paul Hawken, and Vandana Shiva - explain the biotech companies’ agenda of controlling the food supply and why it’s a recipe for worldwide famine. (Time: 6:38)
Monsanto shifts ALL liability to farmers
Farmers are attracted towards GM crops because of reduced maintenance, but farmers who plant Monsanto's GM crops probably don't realize that when they sign the Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement that it transfers ALL liability to the farmer or grower. (Time: 9:47)
The Tyranny of Soy in Paraguay
Since being elected in 2008 as President of Paraguay, the 'Red Bishop' Fernando Lugo has been unable, or unwilling, to deliver on promises made to the landless farmers who got him to power in the first place. Meanwhile US and Brazilian-based soya industries are rapidly expanding and taking over Paraguay's agriculture, polluting much of its land and water sources and depriving small farmers of their means of livelihood. (Time: 8:29)
Monsanto or Farmers
Vandana Shiva speaking at "The Globalization Conference" in Oslo, November 2010. She touches on On Monsanto, bio-piracy, intellectual property, seed and life patenting, herbicide-resistant weeds, bt-cotton, bt-eggplant, biodiversity, the escalating cost for farmers, escalating farmer debt and suicides, the undermining of biodiversity, self-regulation and biosafety. (Total time: 18:46)
Blackwater's Black Ops Explosive News - Democracy NOW!
Blackwater's Black Ops - This is the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided security and intelligence services to a range of powerful corporations over the past several years. The companies include Monsanto, Chevron, Deutsche Bank, Disney and others. Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including Jordan, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. (Time: 11:56)
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 & research because of cross pollenation with GMO plants that other people had planted within pollenaton range. If GMO's touch your crops... Monsanto owns your crop and will sue you. Pollenation is not containable. "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)
Dr Brian John petitions the European Parliament about GMOs
The European Commission (EC) is pandering to the commercial aspirations of the biotech corporations while putting the health of European citizens at risk from genetically modified (GM) products that have never been adequately assessed, said Dr. Brian John of GM-Free Cymru. (Time 04:39)
The Future of Food
The Future of Food, a groundbreaking documentary released in 2004, distils 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)
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)
Bush senior and Monsanto
Bush senior caught on film in Monsanto Inc, helping them push down the regulations that would test Monsanto's new products. (Time: 2:49)
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 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)
Interview with Deborah Koons Garcia, Director of The Future of Food
What should every person know about the food they ingest? The documentary The Future of Food changed the way we think about food (and continues to do so) by answering this question. But, just how has food actually changed? Do we need to worry about genetically modified foods? Learn all this more as Kurt Olson, host of the Educational Forum, sits down with Deborah Garcia the award winning creator of "The Future of Food." (Time 41:31)
Percy Schmeiser
Talk by Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer who was sued by Monsanto for having its patented genes on his land. A must-see for all farmers considering growing GM crops. (Time for all 3 parts: 45:05)
Vandana Shiva - The Future of Food
A 3-part series of interviews with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the future of food. This is more than about the safety of biotechnology; its about the ability of all of us to have a choice of the foods that we eat, and for our farmers to be able to freely use their own seeds, and grow food in the manner that they choose. (Total time: 19:49)
The patenting of seeds by Monsanto
Vandana Shiva talks about the patenting of seeds by Monsanto. (Time 8:38)
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)
Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawaii
A movie about how Hawaii has been turned into a “sacrifice” area to experiment with risky GMOs and how local farmers and consumers are fighting to protect their food supply. (Time for all 3 parts: 28:33)
Food Inc
Trailer for the Oscar-nominated documentary film Food Inc about the corporate takeover of the food supply, including GMOs, plus the segment of the film specifically about Monsanto. (Trailer: 3:31, segment: 10:26)
See the full video here.
Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out
In this 4-part series, journalist, environmentalist, and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Claire Hope Cummings speaks out on behalf of the natural world, and for a new approach to solving the environmental, social, and philosophical problems inherent in our present food system.
In this section we have parts 2 and 3 of the series. (Total time for parts 2 and 3: 13:34)
GMO-Terminator Technology
Vandana Shiva, speaks in Ottawa, Canada about Terminator Technology. Dr Vandana Shiva talks about the impacts of releasing terminator into ecosystems. (Time 0:45)
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