quotes from documentary:
We're losing genetic diversity. We're losing intellectual diversity that we're going to find very very needed in the future...
One of the problems that the [agricultural] biotechnology has is it has nothing for the American consumers. There's nothing there...
This is one of the most disturbing trends in economics...
Without proper labeling, consumers will not be able to make informed decisions...
Food is one of the most intimate things we do. And if we don't have any choices about that, I think that's a very troubling scenarios.
It's up to you...
thoughts:
I most certainly find it very disturbing that 80% of the food you can buy in the supermarket is controlled by no more than a handful of multinational corporations. They are patenting everything, genetically engineered or not, including generation-old seed developed by local farmers. Sooner or later they will own the entire food supply of the world.
Foods that haven't been labeled GE (genetically engineered) or GM (genetically modified) don't mean they aren't because the current law says they don't have to be. They are developed in labs, as opposed to over decades of tests and proven facts that they're safe for the consumers and their ecosystems. From a distance it seems no harms have been done. We do expect things to be more from the lab, less from mother nature. But if you take a closer look, it's worrisome where it's headed.
On the other hand, the government hardly legislates for the people anymore. These officials who decide the future of food production happen to be the same executives found under said corporations. A number of them work or have worked for the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) or EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).
Of them all, the example of Monsanto really demonstrates this close tie between the various branches of the government and their supposedly enemies.
Linda Fisher: (she went back and forth between these jobs four times)
Executive Vice President for Monsanto Corporation
EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation (OPPE)
Justice Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice
Monsanto's lawyer for regulation affairs
Mickey Kantor
Secretary of Commerce
Board of Directors, Monsanto
Lidia Watrud
Advisor to the U.S. EPA
Biotech Researcher, Monsanto
Ann Veneman
Secretary of Agriculture
Board of Directors, Calgene, purchased by Monsanto
Michael Friedman
Acting Commissioner, FDA
Senior VP, GD Searle, a division of Monsanto
William Ruckelshaus
Chief Administrator, EPA
Monsanto Board Member
Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
President of Searle, subsidiary of Monsanto
related reading:
wiki: Genetic Engineering
genetically engineered food
Mothers for Natural Law
download:
The Future of Food
IMDb:
The Future of Food (2004)
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