Bitter Seeds Trailer

Bitter Seeds is the final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy, following Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town and China Blue. The films won 18 international awards, aired on over 30 television channels and screened in more than 100 film festivals. They also connected viewers to NGO action campaigns and encouraged Western consumers to understand their impact on the rest of the world.

Bitter Seeds explores the future of how we grow things, weighing in on the worldwide debate over the changes created by industrial agriculture. Companies like the U.S.-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified (GM) seeds offer the most effective solution to feeding the world's growing population, but on the ground, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where an epidemic of farmer suicides has claimed over a quarter million lives. Every 30 minutes one farmer in India, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family, commits suicide.

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[Anon Trollsuccess]

Monsanto is a company that is enslaving farmers worldwide, farmers have been farming for thousands of years and never needed the help of a business model that ensnares farmers to become dependant on it. Also, Monsanto has its history with Agent Orange and the list goes on. Basically, I'd rather eat sacred cow dung than genetically modified seeds from Monsanto, thanks.

[Mannycom420]

no you are dead wrong. the woman in this video has been touring Nova Scotia spreading awareness of GMO foods and seeds. going to our farms and schools she teaches how to do Organic farming, and spreads awareness of corporate GMO manipulation. don't be a fucking moron. GMO's Kill people. how can you say there is no argument? hundreds of people are dying. its all facts and information. and it should appeal to your emotions if you have any.

[PlasticFarmer420]

Hybrid Vigor? Yes it is true that hybrids generally are stronger and better yielding. This seems like magic in modern times. Poor farmers are romanced by these properties into trying these seeds. They are sold the benefits and not told the real detriment which is that unlike their old, free-pollinating varieties which will grow the same product year after year from their own seeds, the hybrid's second generation will fail, requiring them to buy more seed. Corporate exploitation of the poor.

[yurishmosh]

Have people not heard of hybrid vigor? That's why farmers don't save seeds anymore, hybrid seeds are extremely difficult for farmers to produce on their own and companies like Monsanto can provide that service. Ask any farmer who continuously buys hybrid seed.

[Maggot666PL]

Newsflash: they can't force you to buy their seeds. Just don't and if it's all true they will quickly go out of business...

[phantom5691]

do a little research on Monsanto before you make generalizations based on a MOVIE TRAILER.

[bananaberrybutterfly]

the rabbit hole.

[M Vijay]

Its Shocking But true....Its happening because our system fails.