GMO OMG Page #6

and delighted to see

Republican and Democrat

representatives

and Senators with us

all of whom believe as we do

that people have

the right to know

what they're putting

in their bodies.

Connecticut's GMO

labeling provision

was eliminated after Monsanto

threatened to sue the state.

State after state has

attempted to label GMOs,

but none have succeeded.

And yet, over 60 countries

around the world

require labeling of GMOs

including Russia,

India, even China.

By far, the biggest attempt to

label GMOs at the state level

was California's ballot

initiative proposition 37.

Over six million people voted

to label GMOs in California,

but the industry spent over

45 million dollars to defeat it

and won a narrow victory

by just 3% of the vote.

You said it's in

all of the foods,

80% of the foods?

80% of processed foods.

And I eat a lot of

processed foods.

So, you eat GMOs,

but you didn't know it?

No, sir.

I don't eat processed foods.

Do you eat out ever?

- Do you eat meat, sort of dairy...

- Yeah,

I don't eat meat,

no, no, no meat, no dairy.

Wow. Very good.

Do you eat soy?

Soy, yeah.

93% of soy is

genetically modified.

Oh, why you have

to tell me that.

So, if you eat out, if you...

Oh, we eat out all the time.

Do you eat 100%

organic or just...?

No.

OK.

So, you eat GMOs?

Probably.

We have an organic garden here

in the back of the White House,

and it symbolizes

good healthy food,

and then, behind the walls

of the White House,

they're promoting chemical food

which is untested

and we don't know what

the health risks are,

what the environmental

risks are.

This is unbelievable to me

that this irony sitting

right here is so thick.

Where is the outrage?

Today, we produce 4,600

kilocalorie per person per day

at household levels.

That's twice as much as we need.

So, today, we produce enough

food to feed 14 billion people.

Now, who is out there saying

we need to double

and who likes those numbers?

The industry obviously.

In 1992,

under heavy pressure from

the biotech industry,

the FDA declared that GMOs

were generally recognized

as safe,

G.R.A.S., a designation only

given to food additives

that have gone through

rigorous scientific testing

and been proven safe by

overwhelming consensus

from experts.

They didn't have

any scientific basis.

There were no peer

reviewed studies.

Absolutely, no

longitudinal studies.

These are relatively

new products

and they then opened

the gates up.

These foods can

create new allergens.

They can make a

nontoxic food toxic.

They can lower immune response.

They do lower nutrition.

We've heard this from our

government scientists

they weren't listening to, but

we know that that was there.

The precautionary

principle says that

if you're not sure,

you don't do it.

And that's not what

is being done today.

There's something

extremely wrong

when a government becomes

captive to one industry

and pushes nonrenewable,

debt-creating seeds,

that destroy biodiversity

and independence

and self reliance.

And we can see now all of sudden

how this all fits together

and who is behind

the government.

It's always the industry

and we know the revolving door

policy here in the US.

Michael Taylor is the

revolving door poster boy.

In 1976, Taylor became a

staff attorney for the FDA.

Then, the joined the law

firm representing Monsanto,

then back to the FDA where he

oversaw policy for Monsanto's

genetically engineered

bovine growth hormone.

From there, he headed up

Food Safety and Inspection

at the USDA.

Then, back to Monsanto.

Finally, he has returned

to the FDA

as the second

highest-ranking official

pushing the deregulation

of genetically modified

alfalfa and salmon.

Michael Taylor is one of many

who used government

to feed corporate greed

at public expense.

We tried talking to

as many experts

and politicians as possible,

but the rabbit holes

were endless

because GMOs involve almost

everything you can think of,

world hunger,

international trade,

the patenting of life,

the rights of corporations

now defined as people,

the corporate takeover of

government and universities,

the loss of independent

research and science,

anti-trust investigations,

the multibillion dollar

farm bill

and our tax dollars essentially

subsidizing this whole mess,

the future of food and seed,

peak oil, and climate change,

labeling and the right to

know and choose as free people,

but what it all really boiled

down to was one thing.

Why are we doing this

is really the question.

And the answer is very clear

because it is huge money.

In the end, a few companies will

control what the farmer grows

and what you have in your plate.

One of the things we've learned

in the last five years

is that we can have seemingly

powerful institutions

that turn out to be extremely

vulnerable and brittle.

Our banks in the financial

collapse were too big to fail.

OK. Well, our energy system

and our agricultural system

are just as top heavy

and just as vulnerable.

And what that means is

not as with the banks

that we should like,

bail them out

because they're too big to fail.

It means that anything that's

too big to fail is too big

and we need to build

down this system,

spread it out,

make it more stable,

and I think that's the key.

We do not know the effect

of this grand experiment

that is being vested

upon humanity

by the purveyors of genetically

modified organisms.

If, in fact, we are what we eat,

then we certainly

should be mindful of

the nature of the products

were are consuming

so we know what we will become.

The sun just went

behind the clouds

There's darkness

all around me now

I've just destroyed the

world I'm livin' in

I broke her heart

so many times

And now I've finally

broken mine

And I've just destroyed

the world I'm livin' in

What made me think that

I could go on hurtin' her

I should have known

there had to be an end

But schools of love

are taught by fate

We never learn

till it's too late

And I've just destroyed

the world I'm livin' in

I was worn out and overwhelmed

and needed to get away

from everything for a while.

So, I took my family to one of

our favorite camping spots

in the Sequoia National Forest.

Is there anything sacred left?

Will they genetically modify

these ancient giants

to grow faster so we can

harvest more wood?

There are nearly a hundred new

GMO vegetables and fruit

in the pipeline waiting

to be released.

GMO eucalyptus trees

are already being grown.

There are glow in the dark

rabbits and cats,

spermicidal corn,

goats that lactate

spider silk protein,

salmon that grow

four times faster,

and thousands of other

science experiments

altering the world around us

mostly for profit.

Even human genes,

thousands of them in

our bodies right now

have been patented by

companies and universities.

Are there any limits

to what we will do,

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