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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Review: The Future of Food
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:33:37 -0600


Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech
threat to life on our planet
Thursday, May 03, 2007 by: Mike Adams
http://www.newstarget.com/021827.html

There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically
destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food
supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops,
engineered "terminator" genes that make crop seeds unviable, destroyed the
livelihood of farmers and used every tactic they could think of -- legal
threats, intimidation, bribery, monopolistic market practices and many more
-- to gain monopolistic control over the global food supply.

One documentary brings you this astonishing story. Through the testimony of
family farmers, ecological scientists, agricultural experts and numerous
public documents, The Future of Food tells a horrifying, heart-stopping
story of how Big Agriculture has sold out the future of human civilization
for the almighty dollar.

The Future of Food is a compelling, eye-opening documentary that I consider
a "must-see documentary" by anyone who eats food (which probably includes
you). Even if you think you know everything worth knowing about your food,
there's still a dark secret the biotech companies believe U.S. consumers
should not be allowed to know: That many foods are genetically engineered
with dangerous pesticides and foreign DNA, and there is currently no U.S.
law requiring their labeling as such.

Do whatever it takes to see this documentary. Buy it, rent it, or view it
online by clicking here to watch it on Google Video. Just make sure you
watch this film.

It starts off looking a bit boring. But stick with it. The film picks up
steam after the first ten minutes, and then it takes you on an outrageous
ride that will have you gripping the edge of your seat, shaking your head
in disbelief. Watch this entire film from start to finish, and then, when
you're done watching it, send the link to your friends. This is an
extremely important documentary for our time. Don't make another trip to
the grocery store without seeing this film!

The future of humanity is determined by the future of food
What's at stake here is not merely control over today's food profits. The
actions taken by Big Agriculture are systematically destroying the very
agricultural biodiversity that will one day be desperately needed to save
us from a global food crash. And at the same time these multinational
agricultural giants are destroying our food biodiversity, they're also
patenting seeds, then using imperialistic intellectual property law to
extort profits from farmers, universities and research institutions all
over the world.

The whole problem of genetically engineered crops became a tidal wave of
trouble following the U.S. Supreme Court's ill-fated decision in 1980 to
allow corporations to patent life. The patenting of the first genetically
engineered microbe opened the floodgates to corporate greed, and it wasn't
long before Big Ag firms began patenting every seed they could get their
hands on (a process called "biopiracy"), stealing the inventions of nature
and declaring them to be their own.

Today, an astonishing 20 percent of the human genome is now owned by
corporations. The simple act of reproducing by having children is now a
violation of U.S. patent law. Technically, the corporations that "own"
these human genes could sue the parents of all newborns, demanding royalty
payments for the use of their intellectual property.

Want to know more shocking facts about intellectual property and the future
of food, agriculture and human civilization? See The Future of Food for
yourself. And while you're at it, be sure to visit the Center for Food
safety (www.centerforfoodsafety.org), a non-profit organization that's been
doing the oversight job our own government should have been doing. But
since the people who run the USDA, EPA and FDA are the very same people who
occupy top positions in the most powerful agricultural organizations in the
world, the U.S. government has no intention whatsoever to protect the
public from financial exploitation by influential corporations (regardless
of the cost to the future of life on planet Earth). It's the same story
with Big Pharma, as you no doubt already realize.

The coming food bubble
Curious how modern civilization might ultimately end? In previous articles,
I've discussed the coming food bubble -- a global collapse of the food
abundance we naively enjoy today. Depending on who you talk to, this
collapse of the global food supply could be caused by the end of peak oil,
a collapse of bioversity followed by widespread crop blight, the depletion
of freshwater tables, radical weather patterns caused by global warming, or
the widespread disruption of global ecosystems through the continued use of
synthetic chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, etc.)

Each of these explanations sounds like bad news to me. Any one of them
could conceivably pose a major threat to the future of our global food
supply. And yet the real news is even worse: We're facing all of these
threats at once!

Biotechnology companies claim they're coming to the rescue with a new breed
of genetically engineered crops that can produce more food, with greater
farming efficiency, than ever before. What they don't tell you is that
these GM foods contain pesticides and their use encourages the massive
dumping of herbicides on croplands by farmers. Those synthetic chemicals
wash right off the farms and into the aquatic ecosystems (rivers, wetlands,
oceans) where they are creating "dead zones" that can't even support
aquatic life.

It's all being done for the sake of the almighty dollar. Corporations (and
the governments they control) are sacrificing the very future of human
civilization in order to boost next quarter's profits. The food supply is
now toxic, the environment is being systematically destroyed, and
government departments that should be protecting the public are now
operating as marketing branches of the very companies they should be
prosecuting for endangering the public.

How goes the food, so goes the nation
Modern agriculture has literally and figuratively lost its roots. Seeds
that were created by nature are now patented and owned by corporations;
genetically engineered crops that never passed any sort of rigorous safety
testing have long since been approved as G.R.A.S. by the FDA (meaning safe
for use in foods); governments continue to use taxpayer dollars to
subsidize the growing of genetically engineered corn (coated with Monsanto
herbicides, by the way); and the FDA continues to insist that the U.S.
public has no right to know which foods are genetically engineered because
it might "confuse them."

That's how the U.S. government views the average American these days -- as
a stupid, misinformed "feeder and breeder" who has no capacity to read
labels or make informed decisions about what's in their food. Just pay your
taxes, buy your junk food, put your babies on Prozac and shut the heck up,
okay?

And the situation looks like it's only going to get worse. In America, at
least. Europeans, Canadians and practically everyone else in the world is
way ahead of the game on this. In Europe, genetically engineered foods must
be clearly labeled, and many countries have actually banned GM exports from
the United States (about which the U.S. screams like a carjacking victim,
citing international trade sanctions and promising economic retribution
towards any country that doesn't swallow genetically engineered U.S.
crops).

American consumers have remained in the dark on this issue for so long that
it's frankly a little embarrassing to me, as an American, to admit. But
this documentary, The Future of Food can help educate consumers around the
world and rally them to support an outright ban on genetically engineered
crops in the food supply. After all, who wants viruses in their corn? Who
wants the entire food supply owned and controlled by evil corporations that
have clearly demonstrated they have no concern whatsoever for public health
or sustainable farming?






  • [Livingontheland] Review: The Future of Food, TradingPostPaul, 07/13/2007

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