Rice is life

[Uuuurk]

Why would GM rice destroy theire culture? its the dumbest thing i ever heard!

[csd1997]

i am against this, i don't want to sonia gandhi pass this GM crops issue

[ddpl365]

While I am against industrial farming, Genetic Modification of food has been going on for thousands of years. It's why potatoes aren't poisonous, why banana's don't taste like crap. Adding extra vitamins to rice in countries where people are going blind from vitamin A deficiency is not a bad thing.

[myndy86]

@ddpl365 GMO are not selectively or cross bred, etc. "definitions are used by agencies that regulate genetically modified organisms (GMO's).""under guidelines issued by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, genetic engineering is defined as the genetic modification of organisms by recombinant DNA techniques (7CFR340: 340.1).""Recombinant DNA techniques (DNA formed by combining segments of DNA from different organisms)" ers.usda.gov/briefing/biotechn­ology/glossary.htm

[ELITEtaylor2000]

Ummm...wht was the point of this video?was it to support this idea of life...or to get moneyz :D...i like moneyz...moneyz moneyz moneyz!!!

[stollensecret]

why on earth are people allowing genetic food?!?!? i dont get it, in the U.S. we ban a plant and make it illegal, but we allow this BS??????

[1800123456TM]

Very simple people but still happy with such a mere existence.

The community looks very natural. Unbeleivable how people can be so poor but still willing to share their food with others.

I have a different perspective on China after watching the footage you have so kindly shared with the YouTube community. Thankyou!

[oldpaladin1]

Even if all of mankind changed direction and actually started to care about the enviroment instead of raping it. And started to care about of all humanity instead of letting people starve or kill them in wars. If we achieved the perfect balance between Man and Nature. We would screw it up. We need strife , it is in our nature. Someway , Somehow we need to become better than we are. The Road we are on surely leads to the end of mankind.

[oldpaladin1]

I miss Cousteau and Sagan. They brought a little sanity into this insane world.

[deaneden79]

Amazing! I really wish America was more like that (or I guess like it was before urban sprawl and massive industrialization).

[oldpaladin1]

Now that is a Great Community. It won't be long before MonSatan destroys it :(

[joisfantastic]

such a great idea to go around and preach against scientific "progression" to the "undeveloped" countries. How ironic that these "poor" countries can self sustain while America would crumble in a day without the conveyer belt. Us Americans truly are backwards in this case.

[bmed19]

"How ironic that these "poor" countries can self sustain while America would crumble in a day without the conveyer belt."

i agree. lets all convert to the agrarian lifestyle and become bums and live on a few dollars a day. real genius there bud

[joisfantastic]

They are only "poor" according to the American ideology. When one has clothes, food, family, and health, then one is NOT poor.

If they are poor, it is because America has sucked the world dry of natural resources by allowing people to get lazy playing with paper money while machines pump out scientifically modified crap.

Do you know how hard it is to find a decent organic banana?

Maybe I am the genius here, bud. I'm thinking outside the lines American drew for us.

[oldpaladin1]

jois I agree, sadly most of the world does not. Greed is the dominant force in the world today. The Greatest Treasure we have is right under our feet and we are destroying it for the next dollar.

[joisfantastic]

Yup. To spend that dollar on the McDonals dollar meal. Nothing is more Where's the balance?

[bmed19]

jo, i am afraid u are not thinking outside the box.

what u are expressing is nostalgia for the past. when man worked the land with his hands, rather than with machinery. It was an honest lifestyle based on hard work and persistence. It is these ideas that were expressed by Thoreau in 1854 and John Muir in 1892: a "back to nature" mentality. But times have changed. To grow ur own food by hand is now a luxury. It cannot sustain our global population as a result of its high costs and low yeilds.

[joisfantastic]

I am not nostalgic for the past... I am progressive and modern at best. It's just, I don't believe that we should be fucking with nature while we are progressive and modern. Progression doesnt have to be defined by technology and scientific modifications. Maybe you've watched one too many sci fi movies. I could go on and on, but really, I don't feel qualified to delve furthur and all the information is already out there.

[skiie]

America is the demand, the other countries are the suppliers. Think that out.

[joisfantastic]

What's there to think about? What does supply and demand have to do with anything? I'm not even so sure you know anything about the state of global trading. Don't you know the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? We've one uped everyone with slavery and now we are the powerhouse. Well... maybe not for long...

[skiie]

I'm just saying, if these companies got together and said no to the demand they could arrange things better in their favor. As for your "rich getting richer and poor getting poorer" are you saying these people that get rich don't deserve it? Also Slavery in America was wrong but it was only for the south because their economy used to run off plantations. that doesn't put us ahead it was so long ago, we can easily replace man power with modern engineering.

[joisfantastic]

I don't think you really know what you're saying.

[skiie]

then explain.

[alexkvaskov]

hit the nail on the head my friend

[miniscus5]

the rainbow warrior is coming to my town today!!!

[bmed19]

This is a very distorted view on the life of these ppl.

These individuals are very poor and seeking to get out of poverty. WE CANNOT EXPECT THEM TO LIVE UNDER THESE CONDITIONS. we cannot expect them to slave away bent over tending to their crops. Yes to the westerner this seems like a humble, traditional and appealing lifestyle. But unless you are willing to engage in the hard work these farmers do everyday you have no right to deny these ppl a way out of poverty!!! USE UR BRAIN GREENPEACE!!!

[joisfantastic]

I think you missed the point of this video.

[bmed19]

would u be kind enuf to fill me in on what i missed then?

[oldpaladin1]

bmed19 : would u be kind enuf to fill me in on what i missed then? Sure. They are one with the enviroment. They are Self - Sustaining. They do not need Lots of money or technology to be happy. They are living in a way that works and has worked for thousands of years.

[bmed19]

i would like to clear up 2 misconceptions u seem to have.

1) these ppl arnt happy. maybe happy they have a familly and grateful to own a bit of land. but they are stuggling everyday to make enuf money to live comfortably. My father lived in Laos and his family is one of these poor farmers. It is heart wrenching to see them struggle to slave away in their fields just so they can sell what they cultivate for rediculously low profits.

[bmed19]

We cannot deny these ppl the opportunity to mechanize their farms to increase yield and improve working conitions.

2) they are not "in harmony with nature". These farmers are overusing their lands to increase yeilds and profit thus decreasing its fertility. Therefore to make up for the loss in aerable land they overexert and furhter accelerate the degradation of the land. These farmers have extremely low yields and cannot affort to adopt sustainable practices to avoid env degredation.

[oldpaladin1]

bmed19  Watch the Monsanto Documentary on you tube. Maybe you will change your mind I hope.

[bmed19]

k, i took a look at the doc, the 1st 3 parts. It seems to me that monsato represents the archetypal case of extreme coorparate irresponsibility. It is it not representative of all industrial agriculture, nor is it the fate of all agricultural practices. The negative impact from Monsanto was due to poor management, not b/c biotechnology is inherently bad. Monsanto will have difficulty doing more harm as the adverse consequences of it irresponsible actions become more apparent to the public.

[oldpaladin1]

bmed19 If they are overusing thier land they need to crop rotate, but "Mechanized Farming" with pesticides is not the answer.

[bmed19]

The World According to Monsanto - Part 1 of 8? ill take a look at it