A supermarket shopper buying hamburger, eggs or milk has every reason,
and every right, to wonder how they were produced. The answer, in
industrial agriculture, is “behind closed doors,” and that’s how
the industry wants to keep it. In at least three states — Iowa, Florida,
and Minnesota — legislation is moving ahead that would make undercover
investigations in factory farms, especially filming and photography,
a crime. The legislation has only one purpose: to hide factory-farming
conditions from a public that is beginning to think seriously about
animal rights and the way food is produced.
Would people really want to eat CAFO chicken, beef, or pork if they
knew it came from animals that are kept in pens so small they can’t
move and fed antibiotics constantly to keep them from dying of diseases
they give each other from standing in their own feces?
Also, I’m a Farm Bureau members, but this makes me ill:
And they are supported by the big guns of industrial agriculture:
Monsanto, the Farm Bureau, the associations that represent pork
producers, dairy farmers and cattlemen, as well as poultry, soybean,
and corn growers.
Farming used to be something to be proud of, not something to hide.
The documentary points out many products in German stores that
include GM soy.
In Argentina, it’s even worse, with increasing numbers of birth defects.
They interview
Prof. Andrés Carrasco about his research on amphibians:
“The hemispheres do not separate, like you can see here.
If you look closely you can see one brain.
Glyphosate can cause this kind of mechanisms, for it is an enzymatic toxin.”
“To human cells glyphosate is already toxic in a very low dose.
A farmer uses a much higher dose on the field.
Roundup is even more toxic than glysophate,
for that is only one of the ingredients in Roundup.”
Roundup says none of this applies to humans and Roundup is safe.
Seralini
says:
Who should you believe?
A corporation repeatedly convicted of deception,
or scientists who say that GM crops
cause liver and kidney damage in animals,
according to research using Monsanto’s own data.
A supermarket shopper buying hamburger, eggs or milk has every reason, and every right, to wonder how they were produced. The answer, in industrial agriculture, is “behind closed doors,” and that’s how the industry wants to keep it. In at least three states — Iowa, Florida, and Minnesota — legislation is moving ahead that would make undercover investigations in factory farms, especially filming and photography, a crime. The legislation has only one purpose: to hide factory-farming conditions from a public that is beginning to think seriously about animal rights and the way food is produced.
