In the award-winning documentary Modified, filmmaker Aube Giroux and her mother embark on a very personal and poignant investigative journey to find out why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not labeled on food products in the United States and Canada, despite being labeled in 64 countries around the world.
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Ha. Here’s one. Here’s a tobacco plant with a pig gene. My mom always used to say that a great recipe doesn’t start in the kitchen. It starts outside with the seed in the ground. When the first genetically modified crops came on the market, my mom made it her personal mission to find out everything she could about them. And before long, she had me searching for answers as well.
Their report was released and it blasted how we regulate genetically modified organisms. I think these big companies realized there was a lot more money in patented seed, and they wanted to get farmers forced into raising that patented seed year after year. 80% of all genetically engineered crops are designed to withstand herbicides. Very good. From Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, and Dow, they’re selling more of their chemicals because they are chemical companies.
If you add water to a food product, you must put water on the food label. But if you add insecticide through genetic engineering, you need not label. We want genetically engineered foods labeled. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to overturn the GMO right to know legislation that states have passed. Governments are not representing the people. Governments are completely in the hands of the big corporations. It’s all about money.
We have to leave behind this absurdity of spraying poisonous chemicals on our food and get back to the small farmers, the people who care about the land. Magic.