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

[Kamyar Enshayan]

Hello,

It seems to me, one of the very useful actions we can take in the Green 
Sanctuary process is to develop a contact list of key people in other 
churches around us who might support certan events, initiatives.

So, when we do plan a film series, several churches can be listed if 
they wish.

I am in the process of planning a series of events for 2007 to highlight 
10 years of local food development in our metro area.  One of them will 
be showing of a few films, and the one Donna mentioned is one of them. 

I will be happy to help in whatever way needed.

Kamyar

DJ Davis wrote:

> 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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