Food, Inc. Page #8
wrote the majority opinion
in a case that allowed
these companies
to prevent farmers
Monsanto had very close ties
to the Bush administration...
and the Clinton administration.
This goes to why we haven't had
much political debate
over this radical change
to our food system.
For the last 25 years,
our government
has been dominated
by the industries
that it was meant
to be regulating.
The challenge is as soon
as you have people
with expertise in industry, they may
turn out to be very good regulators.
It's really about what interests
they decide to represent.
centralized power
and that power
is being used
against the people who are
really producing the food
like the farmers.
It's being used
against the workers
who work
for these companies
and it's being used
against consumers
who are deliberately
being kept in the dark
about what they're eating,
where it comes from
and what it's doing
to their bodies.
Good afternoon,
Madame Chair and members.
SB-63 is a consumer
right-to-know measure.
all foods that are cloned
must be labeled
as cloned foods.
a fundamentally
new thing.
But I find it incredible
that the FDA
not only wants to allow the sale of meat
from cloned animals
without further research,
but also wants to allow
the sale of this meat
without any labeling.
How many witnesses
in opposition, please?
Noelle Cremers
with California Farm Bureau.
And if I can point out--
the reason that we are
concerned with labeling
is it creates unnecessary fear
in a consumer's mind.
Until the industry
has an opportunity
to educate why we want
to use this technology
and the value
of the technology,
we don't feel that
consumers just having
a warning label
will help them.
These companies fight
tooth and nail
against labeling.
The fast food industry
fought against
giving you
the calorie information.
They fought against
telling you
if there's trans fat
in their food.
The meat packing industry
for years prevented
country-of-origin labeling.
They fought not to label
genetically modified foods,
and now 78% of the processed food
in the supermarket
has some genetically-
modified ingredient.
I think it's one
of the most important battles
for consumers to fight--
is the right to know what's
in their food and how it was grown.
Not only
do they not want
you to know
what's in it,
they have managed
to make it against the law
to criticize
their products.
Can you tell me how
you've changed how you eat?
Yeah, we--
you'll probably have to
talk to an attorney
before you would
put this in there.
What? You can say this is--
we've stopped--
I know, but--
I could have the meat
and poultry industry
coming after me
and I really--
Seriously? For saying--
that it's so--
It depends
on the context.
You're not saying
"Someone else don't eat it."
Yeah, I'm sorry,
Robbie,
but I get asked this
all the time.
Initially,
my reaction was
"I don't care.
Let them sue me.
Let them try
and sue the mother
of a dead child
and see."
It's pretty amazing
that you can't say
- how you and your family have changed--
are different.
The food industry has
different protections
than other industries do.
We have a lot of questions
about this mad cow disease.
If you recall the case
where Oprah was sued
by the meat industry
for something
she said on her show.
It has just
stopped me cold
from eating
another burger.
- Good morning, Oprah.
- Good morning, y'all.
Are you glad to see
Well, I think
I can say that, right?
I can say that, yeah.
I can see the end in sight.
In Colorado it's a felony
if you're convicted
So you could
go to prison
for criticizing
the ground beef
that's being produced
in the state of Colorado.
There is an effort
in several farm states
to make it illegal
to publish
a photo of any
industrial food operation,
any feedlot operation.
At the same time, they've also gotten
bills passed that are
called cheeseburger bills
that make it very
very difficult
for you to sue them.
These companies have
legions of attorneys
and they may sue even though they know
they can't win
just to send a message.
We are on record
for the deposition of Maurice Parr
in the matter
of Monsanto Company
and Monsanto Technology
versus Maurice Parr.
Mr. Parr, we subpoenaed
your bank records
in this case.
Do you know that?
I'll tell you, what really
scared me the most today
was the fact that they have every check
that I have written
from every bank account
that I've used
in the last 10 years.
Do you own any land,
Mr. Parr?
- Yes.
- How many acres do you own?
Three.
How long have you had
this Dell computer?
Which ones are soybean seed
cleaning customers?
- Mr. Kaufman?
- Beans only.
These people are not just customers,
they're personal friends.
It's extremely
heart-wrenching for me
to know that this list is
in the possession of Monsanto.
Harold Sinn?
Beans only.
This is the first case
in which
a seed company is suing
the person who does
the cleaning of the seed.
So if Monsanto's claims
are upheld in this case,
that would not only put
Moe out of business,
but it would prohibit
every grower in the country
from doing what
Moe does as a precedent in future cases.
Have any of these customers specifically
told you that
they are not going to use
- your seed-cleaning services anymore?
- Ron Merrill.
This essentially puts me
out of business.
- Max Lowe.
- I'm finished.
Jerry Kaufman.
Bill Zeering.
Robert Duvall.
We've had a food system
that's been dedicated
to the single virtue
of efficiency,
so we grow a very small
number of crops,
a very small number
of varieties,
a very small
number of companies.
And even though
you achieve efficiencies,
the system gets
more and more precarious.
You will have
a breakdown eventually.
And where the breakdown
comes in the system
we don't always know.
Modern production agriculture
is highly dependent
on large amounts
of petroleum.
Our farm,
we're going to use
about 40,000 gallons
of diesel fuel a year.
We eat a lot of oil without knowing it.
To bring
a steer to slaughter,
it's 75 gallons of oil.
So what we're seeing is
that this
highly-efficient machine
does not have the resilience
to deal with shocks
such as the spike
in oil prices.
Food prices
last month were 3.9% higher
than they were
a year ago.
Take corn, another basic
source of food,
up to a 12-year high.
For a while, we could sell grains
so cheaply
anywhere in the world,
farmers in other countries
who aren't being subsidized
could not
compete with us.
So their capacity
to grow food
for themselves
was compromised.
The world's running out of food
and nobody's talking about it.
We have no reserves.
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