News from india on the doc "Poison on the Platter"

New Delhi, Feb 4, 2009: Renowned filmmaker and social activist Mahesh Bhatt today launched a scathing attack on biotech multinational companies and their nexus with regulatory bodies for unleashing what he describes as 'bio-terrorism' in the country. Speaking at a function organized to launch his new film, 'Poison on the Platter', directed by Ajay Kanchan, Bhatt said, "in their mad rush to capture the multi-billion dollar Indian agricultural and food industry, the biotech MNCs are bulldozing warnings by scientists about the adverse impact of GM foods on health and environment, and hurtling the mankind toward a disaster, which will be far more destructive than anything the world has seen so far, simply because it will affect every single person living on this planet".

Bhatt's film makes a mockery of Government of India's claim of not allowing import of any GM foods in the country as it conclusively demonstrates that supermarkets in India are flooded with harmful food stuff and biotech MNCs are cashing on the ignorance of unsuspecting consumers in India. "Indians are unfortunately kept in dark, and the corporations are hatching strategies to cash in on their ignorance. Poison on the Platter is, therefore, an attempt to generate awareness among consumers and kick start an informed debate on the issue", said Bhatt.

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• GMO
• GE
• Monsanto
• India
• food
• health risks
• cancer
• immune system
• starving

[MrTVtan]

Save conventional seed it will be futures gold

[DianeDi]

Too many crops these days are mainly GMO's. I bought a red pepper yesterday and when I cut it open, it was empty. No core / seeds.... I opened another one, same thing. Monsanto has far too much power and the fact they were allowed to patent life is truly criminal. A good history of this massive operation can be summed up in "The Monsanto Files". Google it for real eye opener. As rjanis123 said, when Codex takes hold in Dec/09 it will get very interesting.

[rjanis123]

mmmm....

Monsanto!!

yummy ... once Monsanto has the right people in place, to activate, and Change Codex Alimentarius .. it'll get really really interesting...

well.. fellow humans.. it's been a good run

an average species exists about four million years.. we've gone just about that long..

May God Bless Us All

lol

[cycimian]

Impressed, for a news segment it realy hits home. Where i used to live they had then the fields marked of Geneticaly Modified Corn. Suddenly those signs and all indications to whos growing what and where are no longer up. And the countys are not volinteering any information as to whos growing it. Anyways thanks for the vid.