MOVIE – THE GENE REVOLUTION
This video is the final project for CES 440. It is about the consequences of GM crops and food. Mainly I wanted to point out that GM and the gene revolution won’t feed the hungry any more than the Green revolution did. So far GM crops have contaminated the environment, caused health problems and we won’t know what the full extent of the damage will be for awhile. Another thing is that congress nor the people ever got a vote on whether life should be patented or not. I think that it is a travesty to allow a corporation to own the sole right to a seed, so no one can grow it without a license. That little kernel holds so much promise, so much life, but not in the hands of those only interested in the profit from it. Genetic diversity is necessary for a species to survive. If one company has control they can give but only for money. We never got to vote on what the WTO, the IMF or the World Bank would do and how they would treat people. What I protest the most, but didn’t say in the video, is that our country is far from a true democracy. I love my country and I am grateful to be American, but we really need to do some work on the way it’s run. I am so glad I got to take this class. I feel like I will never be the same, never see the world or America with the same eyes. I took history, but now I realize that even though a lot has changed, essentially nothing has changed, just the players. In the middle ages it was the church that tried to control everything and now it’s the corporations backed by rich government.
I absolutely agree that there should be no terminator seeds, what if they spread to other crops and cross with other plants and make them terminatior seeds as well. THat would screw everyone. Terminator seeds as not an “economic opportunity” for the rich and powerful to continue systems of inequatity!