Review: The Future of Food,

[Guest guest]

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?

 

 

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