The two hour long documentary that aired on French television was never going to be aired in America. While Rush Limbaugh has enough freedom to call for riots in Denver, critics of American petrochemical companies can't hear a word about the privitization of the food supply on our public air waves. On March 7, 2008, Greenpeace International summarized the film and global reaction on their website.
International — A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the credibility of US based Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and the provider of the seed technology for 90 percent of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops. The French documentary called, "The World According to Monsanto" and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.
As shock waves went around the globe, articles about the world's most evil corporation filled cyberspace. The film was added to Google and YouTube, but not for long. The movie has been pulled from both sites and no one has been able to get a statement explaining why. As news of food shortages creeps out it is getting more difficult for American media to keep the public in the dark. They have launched a major PR campaign featuring a fictional version of the effects the genetically engineered papayas have had on Hawai'i. Like the Golden Rice scam that heralded an answer to starvation with a product that was such an abysmal failure that even biotech was forced to acknowledge the truth. How could they not when it required eating twelve pounds of the genetically altered rice to get the Vitamin A in one cup of dark green or orange vegetables. Imagine if the billions spent on Golden Rice had been applied to planting food crops. But this isn't about feeding people it's about hungry corporations growing profits. This is about getting Hillary in the White House to continue the Clinton-Bush Biotech expansion and showing the world that no one swallows more %$#@ in the name of freedom than Americans! Number one on the google results is the link for the film in video but sorry, it's not there!! The World According to Monsanto (see link below). None of this comes a a surprise to followers of Monsanto. Delay, deny, destroy or buy is their strategy and it serves them well. Since 1999 I have tracked the the legislation, politics, science and spin surrounding the genetically altered crops that make Monsanto's new global empire. Frustration with the American media ban pushed me to do my own documentary film. Released in 2007, http://roundupreadynation.com Ready Nation is named for the effects of the unspoken, toxic policy eroding our freedoms, health and natural resources at an alarming rate.
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Pamela Drew tracks the legislation, politics, science and spin surrounding the genetically altered foods. She is a freelance researcher, writer and documentary film producer living in New York City, where she works with advocacy groups and small producers to create sustainable farming practices and community based agriculture programs. Pamela is the executive producer of the controversial film 'Roundup Ready Nation ~ dying for profits' www.roundupreadynation.com
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The first is the page that comes up for google when you search the film title for the French film and the second to my film site Roundup Ready Nation www.roundupreadynation.com
By Jove I think we've got it!!
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Pamela Drew (19 articles, 15 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 12 comments)
on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 4:21:47 PM
Neither of these comments seems much to the point, namely, what's going on? I saw the film on French TV and can assert that it badly needs to be seen in the US. (By the way, it wasn't banned in America, it was banned in the USA). The same kind of thing happened recently to a video on Brasscheck about big pharma drugging US school children. I gather that it's happening more and more frequently. Is this what a dying internet looks like?
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Scott Griffith (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 3:15:27 PM
OK, next day: thanks for your response. Couldn't agree more with you about how folk in the US need to wake up and see what they're swallowing. Sometimes it seems they'll swallow almost anything, in all senses of swallow.
Your interest is agri-business, mine here is censorship. Still, your assertion that "Here in the States, the terms are interchangeable..." manages to stick in my craw. If it's truly so, it's kind of tough on our friends in Chile, or Mexico or Canada or elsewhere in America, no? Who's more American, us or them?
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Scott Griffith (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments)
on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 3:26:01 AM
