Seed: The Untold Story Page #4
The big concerns are Cancers
that pesticides are
associated with.
area was because of Atrazine.
The actual manufacturer
hired me to look at Atrazine.
Novartis told me
I couldn't talk to
people about my research.
I couldn't publish it
and I couldn't write it
and I thought, what do you mean?
Then they started trying
to manipulate data.
And that's when I realized,
I've helped the
chemical industry
keep this chemical in the
market that I know is bad.
And go home to my wife and kids
and go "Oh, guess
what I did today."
I did a study that
confused all the sciences
and now people don't know
that this chemical's bad.
Novartis and Syngenta
And when you look Novartis
and Syngenta's strategy,
say is discredit Hayes.
They couldn't prove
my science was bad.
They wrote down a
checklist of things
they were going to do to me,
to hurt my students,
to investigate my wife.
The first page in the
secret spy evil handbook
is don't write it down
or you eat it or it
self destruct, right?
I do everything I can in
a position that I'm in.
But you know what some
of the dangers are,
being an academic and
speaking out for what's right.
We all have to do it.
(waves crashing calmly)
(soft, relaxing music)
We live in the most self
sustainable place on earth.
We can grow any plant
from Kakela to Hanalei.
It's such a cycle
of life around here
with the ocean and the land.
Hawaiians knew from
the beginning of time.
around Aloha A'ina,
giving back to the land
because the land gives to us.
Native Hawaiians have this
incredible agricultural system
able to sustain three
times today's population.
In the 1800s, plantation
agriculture happened in Hawaii,
and what you see is
private land ownership
happening in Hawaii.
(moves into calm
and serene music)
The original missionary families
are still the primary
private landowners.
The descendants of the
original missionaries
open up the first
sugar cane plantations.
The last sugar cane mill
eight years ago.
And in its place biotech
chemical seed companies came in
and took over agriculture.
They say sugar ruled
Hawaii, sugar was king.
Well, now I would say
the biotech industry,
these chemical companies
are king in Hawaii.
(sings in Hawaiian)
I live in a community
that consists of
pure Native Hawaiian
native speakers.
I have waited for an
opportunity to own my own home.
And not just own my own home,
but a space as a single
mother to raise my children.
Many Hawaiians die waiting
for their opportunity
at an Hawaiian homestead.
I moved out here and at the
time sugar was just moving out
and the fields around
us were fallow.
I started to see
different fields pop up
that I've never seen before.
It alarmed me.
I had no idea what was,
what was happening,
what was taking
the place of sugar.
Then I started to experience
very bad allergies,
migraines and illnesses,
just not being able
to get over colds.
My doctor said, "Oh you have
What I started to see
that the farmers were
spraying pesticides.
(moves into calm
but somber music)
night while we are sleeping.
My two daughters wake up with
blood-soaked pillows.
There's hundreds and
hundreds of acres
where these chemical
corporations test their seed.
18 tons of restricted
pesticides being dumped,
right next to schools
and neighborhoods.
I'm a teacher at Waimea
Canyon Middle School
for the past 18 years.
There's ag lands
adjacent to our campus.
It is literally 100 yards
up wind from our school.
That's the field that
they were spraying
and we can actually
feel the mists.
we believe that
drift is occurring.
During PE,
a cloud of gases came over them
and kids just started dropping.
(car horn honks)
There was chaos on
campus, it was horrific.
(emergency vehicle
sirens blare out)
There wasn't enough
room in the health room.
About 140 children were
seeking assistance.
There was this effort by
administrators and politicians
to whitewash it over,
and immediately
in the newspaper,
you know, school evacuated
because of stink weed,
and that became the
specious explanation,
that became the story.
Teachers came
together and stood up.
"Stop poisoning our children".
Monsanto, Dow, Dupont,
and Hawaii and elsewhere,
they've got a blank
check to experiment
with any chemical they
want on these test plots.
You've got the most
toxic insecticides
by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
(calm but serious strings music)
The seed companies,
the chemical companies,
especially Monsanto,
to manipulate our government
and other governments.
They pour huge amounts of
money into political campaigns.
They pour huge amounts
of money into lobbying.
They have many of their
own people embedded
in the key decision making
roles in the U.S. Government.
In 1992,
the approval of genetically
engineered crops
was done by Michael Taylor,
who was a lawyer for Monsanto
and went right from Monsanto
to working for the government.
Tom Vilsack was named
the Biotechnology
Industrial Organization's
governor of the year.
His law firm defended
Monsanto in the Supreme Court
and he became the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Here you have somebody
who's in control
of agricultural policy,
absolutely linked to the hip
to the biotechnology industry
and to Monsanto's interests
The revolving door between
Monsanto and government
is going to fast,
it's almost dizzying.
The corporations,
they said we wanna
really own these seeds.
We want patents on life.
It was fast tracked
to the Supreme Court.
It was a five-four decision
with Clarence Thomas,
in the lead of the five,
saying "Yes, you can patent
seeds, you can patent life."
Very few people know,
but Clarence Thomas
was a Monsanto lawyer.
the idea of patenting a seed,
or any kind of plant,
I was absolutely
horrified and I thought,
surely that'll never be allowed.
You can't own nature.
(soft and calm violin music)
Under section 101
of the Patent Act,
which defines what can be
patented in the United States,
you can only patent a
machine, a manufacture,
or an inventor's
composition of matter.
And I fail to see how a
seed can be either of those.
Monsanto takes one gene out
of tens of thousands of genes,
changes that, and says "No, no,
now we own the whole plant."
It's one of the most
extraordinary giveaways,
giving corporations the
natural reproduction
of all life forms,
saying you can make a profit
on every one of
those reproductions.
So they don't just
own the seeds,
they own all of the
offspring of those seeds,
and patent them forever.
(calm and somber music)
The threat is there
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