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Stop Monsanto!

Chase them out.

Monsanto is poison for the air.

Stop Monsanto!

Chase them out.

Monsanto is poison

for the people.

Stop Monsanto!

Chase them out.

Help! Help!

Peasants in the country,

Peasants in the North,

Peasants in the South,

Peasants in the West...

Let's stop them!

It was to change life,

the seeds Monsanto sent to us.

Understand?

We wanted to have our own

homegrown seeds to plant.

We plant produce that you

can plant every year.

With the Monsanto product,

you can plant just one time.

That's why we didn't take it.

They say they have a

gift to give you.

It's a gift to kill you.

It's a gift to destroy you,

destroy who you are.

Because for us,

Seed is something sacred.

It's a natural thing.

We marched against it,

so they wouldn't

leave it in Haiti.

We're headed for a small

town called Mirebalais.

And farmers in this area

received seeds from the

USAID Winner Project

and they planted them.

So, this is probably going

to be the closest we come

to finding these seeds

from Monsanto.

We pulled them up

and threw them away.

Because they came up withered,

turned red.

They weren't good for us,

so we pulled them up

and threw them away.

They made us pay.

So now we lost both

money and seed.

It didn't do us any good.

That's why we say to Monsanto:

Thanks, but we won't

continue with them.

There is a choice,

and I think consumers have

an important role to play

in pushing their countries,

industrialized countries,

to change their

mode agriculture.

The Haitians weren't

the only ones protesting

genetically modified seeds

in the biotech industry.

Resistance was springing

up all over the world.

For Haiti, accepting

Monsanto's gift

would mean losing

their own seeds,

their food sovereignty,

an essential piece of their

culture and way of being.

And they were fighting for

something that we had lost

without even knowing

we were giving it up.

They believe that the seeds of

life are the common inheritance

of all humanity,

as numerous and diverse

as the stars above,

owned by none,

and shared by all.

No one was marching back home.

There were no protests

in the streets.

It was business as usual

and people were

lining up to eat food

that ultimately comes from

the same chemical company

that the farmers in Haiti

were crying out against.

I had to do something

however small.

So, I began at the

most obvious place,

educating my own children.

Boys, I made you some

GMO goggles, OK?

Can I have that one?

Yeah.

But let me tell you

how they work, OK?

Uh-huh.

- See this part?

- Uh-huh.

Lets you see inside of the food.

Cool.

So, you can see if it's got

genetically modified food in it.

You got to be really

gentle with these.

They're super high tech.

What do you see?

OK, guys, look over there

at McDonald's.

Daddy, are you crazy?

There's no GMOs.

Is there anything on the menu

thats not genetically modified?

Give me one minute.

Yeah. I'm in search of food

that's not genetically modified.

- OK.

- It's kind of a question I'm on.

I figured we could

just go to Whole Foods,

the biggest organic

supermarket in the county.

But I was wrong.

Eighty percent of all

processed foods contain GMOs

and even Whole Foods

hasn't stayed pure.

You guys don't carry GMOs,

do you at Whole Foods?

Um... we're not supposed to.

Thank you, bye.

OK, he said all of our

produce are 100% GMO free.

Our meat department is GMO free.

- All the meat?

- Uh-huh.

Is like GMO-free, they

don't eat GMO corn or soy?

If it's not organic,

it most likely is fed

genetically modified feed.

At the time, I still thought

that "All-natural"

meant something. It doesn't.

I wonder if this

is... it says "All-natural",

but milk,

since it's not organic,

that means it comes from

cows that eat

genetically modified

corn and soy.

Oh.

- So, this ice cream...

- Daddy...

In our products,

sugar listed in ingredients

may be beet sugar or cane sugar.

It's not practical for us to

isolate and identify

genetically engineered

ingredients.

In other words,

I can't tell you if it's

genetically engineered or not.

Well, it is natural.

But we're eating them.

Even if it's

genetically modified,

do you still like it?

Uh-huh.

Years and years from now,

when you're older,

it might hurt you.

Do you care?

I care.

You care?

But you're going

to eat it anyway?

Mm-hmm.

But...

And it's not

making me dead still.

Well, if you eat too much

of it, it will make you.

This is the best ever.

Were the GMOs the best ever?

Or were they poison like

the Haitians believed?

We loaded up the van and

went looking for answers.

Five minutes from home, we

had to stop for lunch already.

What do you have?

Uh, some ham.

So, that has GMOs in it, too?

What about the cheese?

Cheese.

That is the direction of

Monsanto's headquarters,

but this is Monsanto's corn

that's feeding all of us.

So, you want to get

your goggles on to see it?

I'm a farmer

and I'm an independent

seed sales representative

for Pioneer Seed Company.

We have to have chemicals

to control weeds

so that we can produce the

amount of grain that we have,

just can't produce

it without chemicals.

Unless you're an organic farmer,

you're going to

purchase chemicals

to control those problems.

So, having a chemical company

own a seed company

is hand in hand.

Watch yourself

or you'll get hurt...

How come it's green and red?

It's treatments.

There's treatments on it.

OK.

That treatment is for pests

that are under the ground

that will inhibit the growth

of the bean

from coming out of the ground,

worms and bugs and soil

borne diseases as well.

Is this Roundup Ready?

That's one of the

genetic traits that's in it,

- is Roundup.

- OK.

These weigh 59 pounds a piece.

And how much is a bag of corn?

This particular bag of corn

here runs about $350 a bag.

That sounds like a lot.

It's a lot.

I've been a dealer for 10 years,

and when I first

started to sell corn,

it was about $80 a bag,

corn was.

You need large equipment

to get it done fast

and it requires a lot of

output of money to do that.

The family farm is going

by the wayside in a hurry.

Do you see this as

like a good shift?

The fact that we have

less people on the farm now,

in my opinion, is not good.

It's no different than when

you go into a town

and the Wal-Mart's

are taking over

where there used to be

Amida's and Alco's

and Gibson's and your

five-and-ten-dime stores.

My great grandpa in the

house that I live in

had spiked nails in

the attic of the house

and he would take the

best healthiest ears of corn

in the fall of the year

and stick them on those spikes

and he would just take the ear

and jab the ear on to the nail

and then it would just

sit there and dry.

And then, he would shell those

kernels off the next spring

and plant them and that's

how he raised corn.

In 1860, farmers made

up 58% of the workforce,

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