Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison
The fact is, there has never been a single study on the human safety of these products. Any implication to the contrary is a pure fabrication. Make the corporate apologists produce a single study, and they can not. The important point is this. Among scientists, the scientific community is deeply divided as to whether these foods are safe or not, so the burden of proof is on industry. And so far, the corporations have failed to demonstrate the safety of these foods on humans through a single study. In the last thirty years global demand for food has doubled. In a race to feed the planet, scientists have discovered how to manipulate DNA, the blueprint of life, and produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that Genetically Modified Food may not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked violent protest. Are we participating in a dangerous global nutritional experiment? This informative film helps the viewer decide if the production of genetically modified food is a panacea for world hunger or a global poison.
The fact is that if their food is labelled who will buy it
insects wont eat corn because its poisoned..You want to eat it..same as the flouride waste poison from a chinese factory in the water supplies..Trust these people??sure cant!!Ask the thalidomides!!
Dear lord. What a crock of sh**. Scaremongering doco. Surely no one with an Internet browser and knows how to type, ‘study on GMO food’ can make the premise of this doco redundant in about 2 mins.
AMAZING
how these types of protests just go on and on.
Every season there's a new boogey man in town and how two dimensional and superficially informed these protesters are.
There have been thousands of studies on this topic. Any statement to the contrary is just sticking your head in the sand and wishing it to be true.
Go back to science class. Pay attention this time.
"The fact is, there has never been a single study on the human safety of these products. Any implication to the contrary is a pure fabrication. Make the corporate apologists produce a single study, and they can not."
- this is dead wrong. Here's over 1,700 to get you started:
Manufactured controversy, as there is no "deep divide" among scientists in relevant fields.
we have had 2000 years to learn how to grow food and dealing with pests and still can t do it right, it s ridiculous we will fare better with gene manipulation!
My simple ansewer to Sum up everything is if people want to
eat GMO's they should be allowed to because there is such a big demand for GMO;s RIGHT? So let’s produce GMO food for everyone.
BUT!
If the demand for GMO is really high then I don't see why Governments are so against labeling GMO Products.
Because Supply and demand right if people love these
products what do manufactures have to loose or Monsanto or all corporations involved with the food supply chain.
Everyone has a Right to Choose to Eat GMO or Not to Eat GMO.
If there is a huge demand for Non-GMO I don't understand why
they would not tap that market and cater to it as well.
If manufactures would label products GMO or Non-GMO
People can make an informed choice this is not going to be a profit loss because everyone loves GMO’s right…so if everyone loves GMO’s they will buy GMO products. Right?
Everyone should have the right to choose to have a GMO and Non-GMO option.
I am not bashing any sides here this is my personal unbiased
opinion.
Monsanto makes us sick, doctors can not cure you because they don't have a clue where all these mystery illnesses, that have become almost epidemic in the last 20 years are coming from. And the drug companies get rich off you being sick this is well orchestrated. Also they do not want you dead, no money in that. There should be such an out rage of the populace in this country do we even care about our children, if not ourselves. No I suppose most Americans are more concerned with Hollywood bull**** etc., than taking charge of their lives. Forget those stupid sitcoms and endless drivel of series after series every evening its mindless ****. Wake up we are not sheep use some time to expand you awareness, Reading not what they tell in the media and such but for what they don't tell you. You have to dig it takes time, but you will find truth. When I say they, being the rich corporations, our government, and the medical industry
monsanto hurts non gmo producers by crossing with their crops and will not pay for the losses of the farmers or consumers that are sick from this new crops such as bt corn that will kill bees or some humans
400 un scientists studied gmo's and found they do not increase yields just do a search ..
how is b.t. insecticide distributed within the corn plant and what factors affect gene expression? If Monsanto can prove and allow third parties to reproduce their data showing residual insecticide in the edible portion of the plant is well below max n.o.a.e.l. at harvest and remains so through to the table might ease my concerns.
Ha..Finally the drug companies have found a way to patent nature so are now able to profit from it! Is anything going to be natural any more..so so so sad Not sure how we are going to stop this one :P
They are killing us all...slowly but surely; and for a profit.
You are paid by MOnsanto to say such stupid lies!
How many farmers in India commit suicide DAILY because they (1)Believed the lies, (2)bought Monsanto seed at very favourable prices, (3)Used Monsanto toxic herbicide which contaminat the environment, (4)then were enslaved into the system as seed prices were deliberately increased to the level of unsustainability ? The result you can check it out, suicide widows and orphans. It is pure avarice and control. To call it evil is a compliment.
Please also see research in France which shows rats with huge tumors from being fed Monsanto GMO maize.
Who says that GM food has a higher yield? Is it the producers of this Franken-food. Do you believe them? Who can you trust? just look at the collapse of ethics in the West There is always a price to pay, may it not be disease and death.
You are right. We can all benefit from this great technology. This will help us feed the world much faster than organic or sustainable practices. That Failure to Yield study is baloney. Less pesticides maybe not yet, because we are now being told to spray more Round-Up due to resistance but we can switch more genes around and can improve upon this. Deregulation is moving too slow, I am waiting to buy that modified salmon coming soon and those non-browning apples everyone is talking about. We throw our apples away when they turn brown. GE carrots are to be planted soon too. I am a Pescetarian and it would be nice to get some animal protein put into my veggies via genetic engineering.
The great thing about genetically modified foods are that they can often be grown successfully with little to no pesticides (ex if they are modified to make them more resistant to pests, etc). I like when GM is matched up with organic growing techniques. The real concerns with GM is in the pace of the industry, which is fueled by the monopoly of the corporations. IF time is taken to assess the potential impacts of introducing these new species into our ecosystems, and independent testing is done to evaluate the products safety, then why not benefit from this technology?
The FDA woman says that there needs to be no labels because GMOs are not different from the original foods. I would like her to show me some naturally occurring plants that have animal DNA.
Long before GMO crops ever left the drawing board, the agricultural industry has used ionizing radiation to trigger spontaneous mutations in various crop in the hope of stumbling upon some useful trait. The descendants of these experiments are what we have at our dinner table today, and I've never heard anyone complain. There could be harmful proteins lurking in every meal, and because of the 'sledgehammer' type of approach to breeding we would be none the wiser. With this in regard, the more precise and highly controlled gene splice modifications of today should seem like a good thing by comparison, yet paranoia, as usual, always prevails.
The GMO industry is a dangerous beast not because of any inherent health risks concerning GMO crops in general, but because of industry monopoly and heavy patenting. Only the mega-corporations can afford to buy their way past the legal constraints, and thus the farmer and ultimately the consumer, are at their mercy.
Independant research gets labeled as corporate espionage, and so the lack of it leads to media paranoia, which leads to heavier legislation, which leads to a stronger monopoly for Monsanto and the likes. In the end you could say documentaries such as this is a win-win for them.
Look up information on Monsantos. In some of the articles that I have read they are said to be not only be a company that produces its own crops and herbicids but also perscription pharmaceutical drugs,
the rockafellers taught the lesson of extintion of competition .... you just under cut the price so low that the people only buy your product ... that is exactly what is happening ... people buy what they can afford.... and that is the processed mass produced crops....
I know to make GMO soy they add a toad gene, to make GMO corn - a scorpio gene, to make GMO rise even a human gene, however honestly, here in EU I am yet to hear about and see with my eyes the GMO rise. Perhaps it is in the market in Asia more than here.
What year was this documentary made? I've heard that GMO is a reason for infertility (studies were conducted testing on lab rats). To minimize population of "street" grey rats which carry diseases, they tried to feed them GMO soy, but these rats wouldn't eat it at all. What can I say, is it really safe then. Also in humans noticed, with GMO in their diet it is much harder to lose weight and much easier to gain it.
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2 doc's : "The World According to Monsanto" and "The Future of Food"
are better , lot's more info. "Future of Food" has very low audio in every
instance i found and viewed it.