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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
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 biodiversity 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?
What you can do right now
So how do you, as a consumer, combat
the evils of these out-of-control corporations and
failed government regulators? Here's a quick list of
action items that will help you stay informed and
empowered:
1. View the documentary. Make sure you watch
The Future of Food.
2. Shop for NON-GMO foods. Buy organic, and
look for non-GMO labels on the foods you purchase.
If you're not sure what's genetically modified and
what isn't, rest assured that most of the brand-name
products made by the largest food corporations
contain one or more genetically modified
ingredients. The most common are corn and soybeans.
So buy food and food products from small, local
companies or "natural" food manufacturers. Visit
your local food coop. Eat local!
3. Support legislative efforts to require the
labeling of genetically modified food ingredients.
I'm not aware of any such pending legislation that's
anywhere close to a vote, but if such legislation
appears on the horizon, you can count on NewsTarget
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4. Read the Center for Food Safety report on
pharmaceutical rice.
Click here to download the report now (PDF).
This is an important report to read if you want to
understand how drug companies are now trying to turn
nature's crops into pharmaceutical factories,
placing the safety of the entire national food
supply at great risk.
5. Share information with others. Spread the
word on our CounterThink cartoons. Just click on any
cartoon you see on this page, then you can send it
to a friend or post it on your website (please
include a link back to us). Take part in consumer
activism by posting your own blog or articles on
this topic. Help spread the word about the dangers
of genetically engineered crops!
Together, we can fight the corporate takeover of our
food supply. If we stay informed, focused and
committed to protecting nature, we can end the
secrecy and get
GM
crops either labeled on foods or banned
outright. In time, we may even be able to overthrow
modern patent law and ultimately ban the patenting
of seeds, genes and living entities. In time, I hope
to see the ending of patent law on all medicines,
too.
Patents on genes, seeds, foods and medicines
should have never been allowed. These things
belong to the people (actually, they belong to no
one except nature). They certainly do not belong to
any corporation. Personally, I refuse to recognize
these invalid patent laws which are artificially
constructed by the U.S. patent office. There is no
such thing as corporate ownership over a seed, there
is only the illusion of such ownership.
Patent law is a social and legal construct, and it
can be demolished just as easily as it was
fabricated. In time, if enough consumers join in
these efforts to save themselves from corporate
tyranny, we can take back ownership and control
over our food, our genes and our lives.
It will not be an easy task, and it will require a
lot of information and grassroots advocacy. The
Future of Food is a great ally in this fight,
and the Center for Food Safety deserves your
goodwill and financial support. Please consider
donating to this organization to help fund even more
pro-consumer action that challenges the regulatory
failures of the USDA, FDA and EPA.
Stay tuned to NewsTarget for more pro-consumer news.
We're fighting to protect life on many fronts,
including challenging Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Oil
and Big Government. We believe in consumer rights,
open-source intellectual property and the protection
of nature. We're radical thinkers who support
radical changes to create a sustainable future
founded on consumer freedom, liberty and education.
Footnotes
| About the author:
Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate with a
passion for sharing empowering information to
help improve personal and planetary health He
has authored more than 1,500 articles and dozens
of reports, guides and interviews on natural
health topics, reaching millions of readers with
information that is saving lives and improving
personal health around the world. Adams is a
trusted, independent journalist who receives no
money or promotional fees whatsoever to write
about other companies' products. He's also a
veteran of the software technology industry,
having founded a
personalized mass email software product
used to deliver email newsletters to
subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive
director of the
Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit
consumer protection group, and regularly pursues
cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and
Pilates. He's also author of numerous health
books published by
Truth
Publishing and is the creator of several
consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns,
including the
Spam.
Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free
downloadable
Honest
Food Guide. He also created the free
reference sites
HerbReference.com and
HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in
free speech, free access to nutritional
supplements and the ending of corporate control
over medicines, genes and seeds. Known by his
callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his
missions statements, health statistics and
health photos at
www.HealthRanger.org
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