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The Future of Food: The Biotech Threat To All Life
May 4, 2007
RaidersNewsNetwork.com

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary
that exposes the
biotech threat to life on our planet

 
by: Mike Adams

 
 There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that
 are systematically
 destroying humanity's future. These companies have
 taken over the food
 supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading
 genes into staple
 crops, engineered "terminator" genes that make crop
 seeds unviable,
 destroyed the livelihood of farmers and used every
 tactic they could
 think of -- legal threats, intimidation, bribery,
 monopolistic market
 practices and many more -- to gain monopolistic
 control over the global
 food supply.

 
 One documentary brings you this astonishing story.
 Through the testimony
 of family farmers, ecological scientists,
 agricultural experts and
 numerous public documents, The Future of Food tells
 a horrifying,
 heart-stopping story of how Big Agriculture has sold
 out the future of
 human civilization for the almighty dollar.
 

 The Future of Food is a compelling, eye-opening
 documentary that I
 consider a "must-see documentary" by anyone who eats
 food (which
 probably includes you). Even if you think you know
 everything worth
 knowing about your food, there's still a dark secret
 the biotech
 companies believe U.S. consumers should not be
 allowed to know: That
 many foods are genetically engineered with dangerous
 pesticides and
 foreign DNA, and there is currently no U.S. law
 requiring their labeling
 as such.
 

 Do whatever it takes to see this documentary. Buy
 it, rent it, or view
 it online by clicking on the link above

Just ake sure you
watch this film.

 It starts off looking a bit boring. But stick with
 it. The film picks up
 steam after the first ten minutes, and then it takes
 you on an
 outrageous ride that will have you gripping the edge
 of your seat,
 shaking your head in disbelief. Watch this entire
 film from start to
 finish, and then, when you're done watching it, send
 the link to your
 friends. This is an extremely important documentary
 for our time. Don't
 make another trip to the grocery store without
 seeing this film!
 
 
 The future of humanity is determined by the future
 of food
 What's at stake here is not merely control over
 today's food profits.
 The actions taken by Big Agriculture are
 systematically destroying the
 very agricultural biodiversity that will one day be
 desperately needed
 to save us from a global food crash. And at the same
 time these
 multinational agricultural giants are destroying our
 food biodiversity,
 they're also patenting seeds, then using
 imperialistic intellectual
 property law to extort profits from farmers,
 universities and research
 institutions all over the world.
 
 The whole problem of genetically engineered crops
 became a tidal wave of
 trouble following the U.S. Supreme Court's ill-fated
 decision in 1980 to
 allow corporations to patent life. The patenting of
 the first
 genetically engineered microbe opened the floodgates
 to corporate greed,
 and it wasn't long before Big Ag firms began
 patenting every seed they
 could get their hands on (a process called
 "biopiracy"), stealing the
 inventions of nature and declaring them to be their
 own.
 
 Today, an astonishing 20 percent of the human genome
 is now owned by
 corporations. The simple act of reproducing by
 having children is now a
 violation of U.S. patent law. Technically, the
 corporations that "own"
 these human genes could sue the parents of all
 newborns, demanding
 royalty payments for the use of their intellectual
 property.
 
 Want to know more shocking facts about intellectual
 property and the
 future of food, agriculture and human civilization?
 See The Future of
 Food for yourself. And while you're at it, be sure
 to visit the Center
 for Food safety (www.centerforfoodsafety.org ), a
 non-profit organization
 that's been doing the oversight job our own
 government should have been
 doing. But since the people who run the USDA, EPA
 and FDA are the very
 same people who occupy top positions in the most
 powerful agricultural
 organizations in the world, the U.S. government has
 no intention
 whatsoever to protect the public from financial
 exploitation by
 influential corporations (regardless of the cost to
 the future of life
 on planet Earth). It's the same story with Big
 Pharma, as you no doubt
 already realize.
 
 
 The coming food bubble
 Curious how modern civilization might ultimately
 end? In previous
 articles, I've discussed the coming food bubble -- a
 global collapse of
 the food abundance we naively enjoy today. Depending
 on who you talk to,
 this collapse of the global food supply could be
 caused by the end of
 peak oil, a collapse of bioversity followed by
 widespread crop blight,
 the depletion of freshwater tables, radical weather
 patterns caused by
 global warming, or the widespread disruption of
 global ecosystems
 through the continued use of synthetic chemicals
 (pesticides,
 herbicides, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
 
 Each of these explanations sounds like bad news to
 me. Any one of them
 could conceivably pose a major threat to the future
 of our global food
 supply. And yet the real news is even worse: We're
 facing all of these
 threats at once!
 
 Biotechnology companies claim they're coming to the
 rescue with a new
 breed of genetically engineered crops that can
 produce more food, with
 greater farming efficiency, than ever before. What
 they don't tell you
 is that these GM foods contain pesticides and their
 use encourages the
 massive dumping of herbicides on croplands by
 farmers. Those synthetic
 chemicals wash right off the farms and into the
 aquatic ecosystems
 (rivers, wetlands, oceans) where they are creating
 "dead zones" that
 can't even support aquatic life.
 
 It's all being done for the sake of the almighty
 dollar. Corporations
 (and the governments they control) are sacrificing
 the very future of
 human civilization in order to boost next quarter's
 profits. The food
 supply is now toxic, the environment is being
 systematically destroyed,
 and government departments that should be protecting
 the public are now