Controlling Our Food | A Documentary On Genetically Modified Foods GMO's

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On March 11, 2008 a new documentary was aired on French television, a documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

Genetically modified foods (or GM foods) are foods derived from genetically modified organisms (GMO). Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to radiation or chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. Other techniques by which humans modify food organisms include selective breeding; plant breeding, and animal breeding, and somaclonal variation.

GM foods were first put on the market in the early 1990s. Typically, genetically modified foods are transgenic plant products: soybean, corn, canola, and cotton seed oil. Animal products have also been developed, although as of July 2010 none are currently on the market. In 2006 a pig was controversially engineered to produce omega-3 fatty acids through the expression of a roundworm gene. Researchers have also developed a genetically-modified breed of pigs that are able to absorb plant phosphorus more efficiently, and as a consequence the phosphorus content of their manure is reduced by as much as 60%.

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[bebe88481]

As long as money determines our decisions we will continue to see the degeneration of our environment, freedoms and quality of life. A monetary system breeds competition, corruption, unsustainable consumption of resources, war, poverty, crime, hunger, disease, etc. We can educate ourselves and others on a resource based economy, we still have the tools and ability to come together and work toward a more sustainable/sane system.

Watch Zeitgeist Moving Forward, and share it far and wide.

[mikecorbeil]

@stedmans4christ Yes, it's a 9-11 sort of terrorism against all of humanity and is aided by corrupt Washington, like 9-11-2001 also was. It's sufficiently proven that Washington ensured the 9-11 attacks'ld happen.

Since war is extremely expensive, to taxpayers, that is, what was it for? World domination, huge profits for Corporate America and Wall Street, and power mongering were behind the pretext of 9-11 and the wars terrorizing humanity. It's similar with Monsanto. Gangsters and terrorists!

[sphinxart]

I'll never stop fighting Monsanto.

[kendraiscoolio]

technology shouldnt even be used in the environment in that level.

[SpotterOz]

Trans-genetic crossovers... It's a genie that, once it has tasted freedom will refuse to go back into the bottle, and worse, will create havoc where ever it goes.

Just saying.

[not2tees]

What is real value? Money? Or children, healthy children? A toxic desert surrounding a city of skyscrapers or a living ecosystem with humanity in balance? We have to think deeper than we are able, almost. I don't know, humanity, if we are going to make it.

[PuggiTheGreat]

God help us all, we destroy biodeversity & we destroy ourselves...Fuck monsanto !

[solarisrama55]

watch the Zeitgeist movie and Zeitgeist Addendum , those were the first ones :)

[1theforest]

@bebe88481 Good speech.

[lamrof]

America is suffocating in GREED.  No way out. No way out.

[westchesterny]

@lamrof Envy is more common than greed, listen to people talk; they want what other people make or create. They want social programs, or military free-rides, (miltary= cradle to grave dependents on the people the government takes money FROM and redistributes). Envy, greed, a lack of self-starting creativity. The new americans since Industrial revolution (post civil war) were brought as drones in robber baron factories, now they're on "programs" or "military"--none of it creative productive