We Are What We Eat?
Jeremy Seifert is the creator and director of GMO: OMG, a documentary that raises public awareness about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). GMOs are most commonly used in reference to crop plants created for human or animal consumption. Today over eighty percent of all processed foods on our grocery store shelves have GMOs in them. Seifert takes to the streets, randomly asking people what they know about GMOs. No one he asked knew what GMOs were. Food is one of the most essential things in our lives, yet we don’t even know what we are putting in our bodies.
The risks of GMOs to our health and the environment are unknown. In the United States labeling of our food is not required. Through lobbying and campaign contributions, …show more content…
They not only refused their seeds, they burned them. They suffer from poverty, hunger and malnutrition and were not willing to take a chance on Monsanto’s seeds. They referred to them as the “seeds of death”. They realized it was not Monsanto’s objective to protect life or the environment. Chavannes Jean Baptist, the leader of the Peasant Movement of Papaye points out, “The objective of Monsanto is to make money.” Monsanto has created a seed that is patented and cannot be used to replant. Is that why Monsanto won’t be interviewed, because they have control over all of us and have no reason to give us any explanation? Haiti did not want to lose their own seeds, an essential piece of their culture, which is what has happened to the United States. Less than two percent of our workforce are farmers, we have lost our culture. We have unknowingly given up the power to sustain our own food …show more content…
Gilles-Eric Seralini, a French scientist and a professor of molecular biology. Seralini conducted a two-year study of Monsanto Roundup Ready corn. He fed rats a diet of this corn and found long-term health risks such as, hormonal imbalance and tumors of the mammary and pituitary glands. Seralini’s testing showed that the eighty-eight percent of the rats developed the tumors after the first year. In Monsanto’s study, they said there were no findings to indicate any harmful effects. However, it was only a three-month study. Monsanto’s studies were not peer reviewed and they refused to release the raw data to the
Jeremy Seifert is the creator and director of GMO: OMG, a documentary that raises public awareness about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). GMOs are most commonly used in reference to crop plants created for human or animal consumption. Today over eighty percent of all processed foods on our grocery store shelves have GMOs in them. Seifert takes to the streets, randomly asking people what they know about GMOs. No one he asked knew what GMOs were. Food is one of the most essential things in our lives, yet we don’t even know what we are putting in our bodies.
The risks of GMOs to our health and the environment are unknown. In the United States labeling of our food is not required. Through lobbying and campaign contributions, …show more content…
They not only refused their seeds, they burned them. They suffer from poverty, hunger and malnutrition and were not willing to take a chance on Monsanto’s seeds. They referred to them as the “seeds of death”. They realized it was not Monsanto’s objective to protect life or the environment. Chavannes Jean Baptist, the leader of the Peasant Movement of Papaye points out, “The objective of Monsanto is to make money.” Monsanto has created a seed that is patented and cannot be used to replant. Is that why Monsanto won’t be interviewed, because they have control over all of us and have no reason to give us any explanation? Haiti did not want to lose their own seeds, an essential piece of their culture, which is what has happened to the United States. Less than two percent of our workforce are farmers, we have lost our culture. We have unknowingly given up the power to sustain our own food …show more content…
Gilles-Eric Seralini, a French scientist and a professor of molecular biology. Seralini conducted a two-year study of Monsanto Roundup Ready corn. He fed rats a diet of this corn and found long-term health risks such as, hormonal imbalance and tumors of the mammary and pituitary glands. Seralini’s testing showed that the eighty-eight percent of the rats developed the tumors after the first year. In Monsanto’s study, they said there were no findings to indicate any harmful effects. However, it was only a three-month study. Monsanto’s studies were not peer reviewed and they refused to release the raw data to the