food for thought.

I was kinda under the impression that Monsanto was going down, or at least on the radar, after all of the publicity from "The Corporation" waaaaay back in 2003. But I just came across this interesting looking video clip and perhaps the public continues to be uninformed about the food they are being sold (and not necessarily through fault of their own ... I feel a conspiracy, yes, a conspiracy). I'm shocked to see that in 2011 people don't know what genetically modified food (GMO's) are. Yikes.



But back to my video clip. After the earthquakes in Haiti, America sent help. One of these ways was by sending starving, rural farmers, 475 tons of hybrid genetically modified seeds from the Monsanto Corporation. Do you know what the farmers did? They burned the seeds in protest, refusing to grow and feed food to their people that was genetically modified. What do they know that (apparently) we don't?
The footage from this video looks gorgeous... take a look:

GMO Film Project Sizzler from Compeller Pictures on Vimeo.

So interesting to think about access to information; ignorance; capitalism; poverty; greed; obesity; disaster ...... Our priorities have gotten so far off track. I hope we are getting closer to something more familiar soon. I hope.

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