The Future of Food--A MUST SEE MOVIE ON NETFLIX

I just finished watching part of the movie, The Future of Food.  I had to stop and take a break, because I have come to understand a very sobering truth.  The public at large has been passively standing by while more GMO foods are being introduced for human consumption. There is outrage in Europe over GM foods but only a small (yet very strong) presence of activists here.  However, I think the U.S. will soon reach a tipping point whereby information about the dangers of GMO foods goes mainstream.  The Japanese at large are very concerned about GMOs, and when a trade representative in the food industry in Japan says, "We will watch the children in the United States for the next 10 years," Houston, we have a problem.

This is an absolute must-see movie.  There are interviews of farmers who have been sued and taken to the cleaners by Monsanto for "breaking it's patents"--when Monsanto crops contaminated the farmers' crops.  In Canada the Supreme Court made a farmer destroy his own seeds, cultivated for generations because Monsanto crops contaminated the farmer's seeds via the wind therefore"he was violating a patent."  The farmer also lost his retirement ($200,000) in lawyers fees.  This year, however, 270,000 organic farmers have collectively filed suit against Monsanto to protect themselves from this kind of abuse.

There is an explanation of how viruses, bacteria, and antibiotic genes are forced into plant cells--the GMOs are basically a biological experiment when about 75% of the items at a regular grocery store contain GM ingredients. (There is more information in my previous post about GMOs)

97% of the vegetables grown at the beginning of the 20th century are now extinct as the food system has become industrialized.  Monsanto is pushing to own patents on more seeds, and they already own many of the pesticides that industrial farming is now dependent upon.  Monsanto controls a lot of the seeds, hence food, yet GMOs have never been voted on by the people or Congress.  Lack of government regulation in addition to millions in lobbying allows them to do so.  A line from the movie states, "The U.S. pesticide industry bought the seed industry."

There is a movement in the U.S. to label GMOs, whether or not it passes, I am not going to eat them. 

A Votre Sante,  (Here's to Your Health,) Alix