[Greensanctuary] "The Future of Food" film/video and Green Sanctuary/Conscious Living/Social Action

[DJ Davis]

Dear All--I have a purchased copy of this outstanding documentary (winner of several awards) by Deborah Garcia .  It helps us understand a number of little-known facts and issues that we will  probably want to take positive action on:
   
  (1) How GMO seeds are not "just like hybrids, as the agro-biotech biz wants us to believe; how viruses and bacteria are inserted in them to make them able to "break into" a seed's DNA.
   
  (2) How "the right to patent life" (which came about under the Reagan Admin.) has empowered and ramped-up the greed of Montsanto and DuPont and others to claim control/ rights to income forever from stray seeds that get into unwilling farmers' fields (in other countries, too)
   
  (3) How these GMO seeds threaten heritage seed stocks and the future of food for the world (already in South America and Central America).
   
  (4) How "terminator" seeds are being produced by these GMO agro-biotech companies that can, willy-nilly, affect our heritage and wild seed stocks.
   
  Personally, I wish a lot more people could see it before the Nov. elections, so they could ask the candidates for national office where they would stand.  But in any case, as the "window" on this process is possibly as little as 5 years, and not more than 10 (according to Garcia's research), it would be a reason for getting new legislation passed (like some forwarded by Kucinich and Boxer, but also some other more far-reaching legislation).
   
  Kamyar has a project at UNI that might dovetail with when we decide to show it for our congregation (or the public, with Garcia's OK) for free.
   
  Certainly this would fit with the Green Sanctuary purposes/goals/guidelines.
   
  Donna D

 				
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