GMO OMG

Very one sided - did not discuss any positives.Jeremy Seifert is the writer, director and narrator of this documentary. He looks like he is in his 30s/40s and drives a VW Eurovan with his family. He looks like a hippie and therefore I knew this documentary would be extremely biased. The documentary was very one-sided, he discussed most of the opposition which I mentioned in my article.It was interesting to see that he would interview farmers discussing the negatives and as the farmers were about to discuss the positives, the scene would cut off and he would raise another issue. He never discussed any positives which come from GMOs.This documentary was very critical of Monsanto, I did not realize that Monsanto is the leading global seed provider to farmers. I just thought it was part of roundup and supplied herbicide. Seifert kept on mentioning how GMOs were only about money and nothing else, what he did not discuss is that scientist developed genetic engineering with a sole purpose of providing a greater good to humanity and Monsanto took the risk to invest in this technology. Seifert also mentioned patenting and the containability of this technology which lead in to a brief discussion of the precautionary principle.Seifert discussed something that I was not familiar with. Since GMOs contaminate organic fields, Monsanto is forcing organic farmers to pay for the GMOs they inadvertently grow. I think this is pretty ridiculous, scientists need to figure out a way to contain the spreading of GMOs and Monsanto should be responsible of the spreading not the farmers. Seifert also discussed how lobbyists have shares in Monsanto (I smell conspiracy).Seifert did discuss how regulatory bodies have limited the research on health effects of GMOs. Seifert interviewed Gilles-Eric Seralini, a French molecular biologist, who performed tests on mice to see what the health risks of GMOs would be. The male mice developed liver and kidney failures within 4 months and female mice developed tumors within 4 months. What baffled me was Seralini is a famous scientist in France but he was interviewed by Seifert on the street.Seifert did not mention anything about drought, frost nor salinity resistance in GMOs. He discussed a field test in Idaho that organic yields were just the same as GMOs yields, he concluded this issue with, well since they have the same yields, then we do not need GMOs. I thought this argument was ridiculous, he conducted a test in Idaho and made an irrational conclusion about the world. He did not factor the differing environmental conditions.This documentary discussed the Svalbaard Seed Vault in Norway. It is a gigantic vault that has seeds from all over the world in case a world catastrophe occurs. This documentary also discussed how people from Haiti will not grow GE seeds because they are unnatural. Monsanto donated millions of seeds to third world countries, some countries have planted these seeds, others have burned these seeds due to cultural reasons.This documentary finished off with how the consumers in the US should know that they are consuming GMOs, they have the right to know. He discussed how the United States should adopt the same labeling policy as the European Union. In the EU, GE foods must be labeled so consumers know that they are eating GMOs. He mentioned how ketchup from Heinz in the US is made from corn oil but ketchup from Heinz in EU is made with sugar.This documentary was interesting, it was nice to have a background on this topic because I was able to weed out his bias. To others, this documentary will make them aware of GMOs. I do believe that citizens of the United States should have the ability to chose what they eat and should be informed of what they eat.

Good Documentary has a lot of useful information, however like most documentaries the director/producer goes to the extreme to get his point across. Put it this way, any business headquarters that you show up to including the one that you currently work for with out an appointment, and it doesn't matter what questions you are asking, they will turn you away. Its called "Professionalism". If that company doesn't want to schedule an appointment they don't have to, that is their right. Just like its the right of any business to refuse service to any one that walks in the door. The one thing that really caught my eye is the part where they have to wear HAZMAT suits to run through a cornfield. I was raised on a farm, I did de-tasseling, GMO or no GMO, there is nothing that the corn is putting off that will warrant the wearing of a HAZMAT suit. With that said the most dangerous thing in a cornfield is actually the dirt. Sounds odd right, how could "dirt" something that we used to roll around in and play in be dangerous. This is because most farmers use manure which is animal s*** to fertilize their fields. Its some of the best fertilizer money can buy, ask any farmer. Now I don't know about you but I personally don't like to roll around in animal s***. Hence why I see it as dangerous or unclean. But hey, everyone has their views and opinions on what is and isn't dangerous. Either way its a good documentary the information is always nice to add to my knowledge of what things are. Just remember when you start seeing the extreme stuff. Like all the questions about "do you know if that has GMOs" or "Do you know what a GMO is" most people don't have a clue what that is, or if its in their foods. They even state that it is cost prohibitive for a company to go out of their way to see if such and such is GMO or not. He even says it himself, a company is there to make money. That is what companies do. Now is Patenting GMOs wrong, yes. To change that send petitions to the government to have them write legislation so that those patents can't carry over onto harvested seeds.

Jeremy Seifert tells us the truth about GMO, showing us his journey on finding this truth!!! People MUST KNOW!!!!

Learn the truth. It may save your life. You will be SHOCKED to learn that you are eating Diphosate from Roundup week killer. It is in 90% of our GMO corn. The food industry has been taken over by chemical companies who do not care if you die from their food so long as the profits are large. Don't stick your head in the sand. You MUST see this. The solution, for now, is spend the extra money to buy ORGANIC. Our own Congress just passed HR 1599 (The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling bill). It is anything but this. It precludes states from requiring food manufacturers to disclose whether their food is genetically modified or not. You read that correctly. Almost all of the Republicans in Congress voted for this bill. Our local representatives (Darry Issa, Dana Rohrabacher), supposedly conservatives looking out for us, voted yes on this bill. They threw us under the bus to keep us in the dark about what we eat for bribe money. I called Darryl Issa's office in DC and gave them an earful. The guy answering the phone had nothing to say.....no defense. He just apologized and said they are getting a lot of calls about this. Trust nobody, especially not our representatives, the state and federal government, and all the food manufacturers. California had a chance to force GMO disclosure but voters were deceived by Monsanto's commercials depicting family store owners going out of business because of the proposed labeling law. What a lie. Californian's were too stupid to think for themselves and the proposition did not pass. Wise up. Educate yourself. Watch this documentary!

Nice to see Monsanto exposed

Dvd was great and the package arrived as planned, ecxellent.Juha Laaksonen

Very well presented and directed. The movie shows very well how the complacency creeps into the mind of the general public and that even farmers expresses concerns about the un-necessary amount and volume of pesticide/insecticide used to grow crops were simpler and lesser amount could yield to the same results. It also shows the cowardice of the corporation to speak and connect with the general public.

Excellent and eye opening

Great movie.

Everybody should see this DVD!!!