Rice is life

http://www.greenpeace.org/rice
Photographer John Novis on sustainable rice farming communities in Southern China.

For farmers of Southern China, rice is more than just food - it is the very basis of their culture, however, it's a way of life that could be under threat as the spectre of genetic modification (GM) creeps up on the planet's most important food crop.

www.greenpeace.org/bearingwitness

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[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??????

[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.

[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

[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.

[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!!!

[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!

[alexkvaskov]

hit the nail on the head my friend

[skiie]

then explain.

[joisfantastic]

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