Monsanto kills Fox News story: BGH hormones in milk - HQ version
Monsanto kills Fox News story of their BGH hormones in your milk - HQ version
Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan released their film The Corporation in 2003 to great acclaim.
In the 6 years since then, it has won 26 International Awards, 10 international Audience Choice Awards, the Genie for Best Documentary, and has become one of the most-downloaded non-fiction films on the internet.
Sadly, the film makers’ ability to create more great documentary films isn’t funded by torrents. Why not check out their Special Edition DVD set, packed with over 8 hours of extras?
http://thecorporation.com
In this high-quality excerpt, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, ex investigative reporters for Fox News, tell of Monsanto’s successful efforts to have their program profiling their product Posilac, terminated with extreme prejudice.
Don’t think for a moment that Monsanto’s strategies, tactics, and plans to dominate the food industry worldwide, have in any way changed by their recent sale of the Posilac product to Eli Lilly.
http://tinyurl.com/MonsantoSellsPosilacToEliLilly
The seeds of the world are now owned primarily by one company, Monsanto. Monsanto is aiming to extend its control to pigs by patenting and thus privatising gene sequences, many of which are found naturally in pigs. Monsanto is doing this despite the fact that the pig has not yet been genetically engineered. Betzelberger is travelling around Germany encouraging farmers to protest against this “sell-out of life”. This happened in the 1990s when genetic technology was green lighted. Steven Druker, judge and civil rights activist, says “This, I believe, is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated by any government in history.” (From Germany, in English and German, English subtitles) (Documentary) G CC WS
http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=110
Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. This century-old empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation, The World According to Monsanto puts together the pieces of the companys history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.
http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/monsanto/
Here are some resources to learn more about Monsanto’s activities
http://tinyurl.com/MonsantoMissionAndVision
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Monsanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_Growth_Hormone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Pig_controversy
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Building Bridges for the Agri-Food Sector in Ontario
A partnership between the University of Guelph and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs was recently renewed. The partnership will help ensure the future success of Ontario’s agri-food industry.
Duration : 0:3:46
Opportunities in Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural engineers utilize knowledge of the biological and physical sciences as well as engineering principles to solve agricultural problems. Universities continue to improve their agricultural engineering programs in response to a growing need for qualified individuals in this field. Agricultural engineers may work in food processing, forestry, conservation, renewable energy, farm power and machinery, and environmentalism, among other sectors.
Duration : 0:2:59
Purdue’s World Food Prize winner the first in food science
On Thursday (Oct. 18) Nelson, Purdue’s Scholle Chair Professor in Food Processing who helped build Purdue’s Department of Food Science, will receive the award during a ceremonial dinner starting at 6 p.m. in the Iowa State Capitol Building in Des Moines.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007b/071016NelsonFoodprize.html
Duration : 0:3:6
Agribusiness & Hunger in the 3rd World 02 Educational Video
Agribusiness & Hunger in the 3rd World 02 Educational Video. This video is an excerpt from Alternative Views #306 at archive.org. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States. The program shows how peasant farmers are forced off their land in Third World countries to make way for large landowners and multinational agribusiness. By using the land for export crops, people go hungry because the country can no longer provide food for all its people. Additionally, the dispossessed landowners are either forced to work on the big farms at low wages or to go to the cities where they cannot find satisfactory work and are forced to live in squalid conditions. The documentary shows the brutality and venality with which the established powers operate. Producer: Frank Morrow; Production Company: Alternative Information Network; keywords: hunger; documentary; agribusiness; Third World. Multinational corporations now grow more food in Asia, Africa, and Latin America than ever before. But much of the food is exported while over 500 million people go hungry. Many people believe that hunger is caused by drought, war, or overpopulation. But in the vast Sahel region in West Africa, there is another reason: peanuts! A hundred years ago, French colonialists who controlled most of the Sahel forced farmers there to grow peanuts for the French vegetable oil industry. Peanut farming and processing by multinational corporations expanded rapidly after the Second World War. By the 1960s, peanuts were king of the Sahel. Over have the cultivated land of Senegal, 2.5 million acres (1 million hectares), is now devoted to growing peanuts for export to Europe. Peanuts also deplete the soil. Peanut harvesting uproots the plants since the nuts grow underground. The disrupted soil is gradually carried off by dry season winds. The small peanut farmers are too poor to replenish the soil with fertilizer, so they grow peanuts until the soil is exhausted and then they move on, leaving barren land behind. Today, a terrible drought. The food storage bins in the villages are nearly empty. Malnutrition and famine are spreading. The vast estates in southern Brazil grow soybeans which are processed locally into oil by large American companies such as Cargill, and then exported to Europe and Japan. We can make a difference in overcoming hunger in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We can demand that U.S. government and business policies in the Third World give priority to feeding local people first. We can support movements by peasants to own their own land and grow their own food. In these ways, our brothers and sisters in the Third World will have enough to eat, and will have a future for themselves and their children. These farm laborers in northwest Mexico don’t work for a foreign agribusiness. They own the land they work on. Five thousand landless peasants fought for and took over 50,000 acres of idle farmland here. Peasant leaders recognized that they could not go back to each family farming their own small plot of land. They saw that modern farm technology makes for efficient food production. So they work their land as one large cooperative farm, each member owning a share of the business. They have started a small industry for building their own houses. They have their own schools and their own credit union. Shows clearly that the main cause of world hunger is not weather or war but rather the policies of western multinational corporations in Asia, Africa and Latin America (e.g., Dole, Del Monte, Cargill, Gulf and Western and Bud Antle). Sweeps through the Philippines, Brazil, Senegal, and the Dominican Republic providing devastating statistics and pictures of the scope of world hunger. In each case, the film traces the roots of the problem to the massive displacement of farmers from the land to city slums and the use of farmland to produce food for export instead of local consumption. Shows how the “Green Revolution” was presented to the U.S. public in the l960’s as a way to end world hunger but — because of the profit motive — has led to greater hunger than ever. Spokesmen for the food corporations give their side of the story in several interviews. Relates world hunger to the growing revolutionary ferment throughout the world. Offers solutions based on the principle of “feed local people first” and on the need for peasants to own their own land. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States.
Duration : 0:14:17
Agribusiness & Hunger in the 3rd World 01 Educational Video
Agribusiness & Hunger in the 3rd World 01 Educational Video. This video is an excerpt from Alternative Views #306 at archive.org. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States. The program shows how peasant farmers are forced off their land in Third World countries to make way for large landowners and multinational agribusiness. By using the land for export crops, people go hungry because the country can no longer provide food for all its people. Additionally, the dispossessed landowners are either forced to work on the big farms at low wages or to go to the cities where they cannot find satisfactory work and are forced to live in squalid conditions. The documentary shows the brutality and venality with which the established powers operate. Producer: Frank Morrow; Production Company: Alternative Information Network; keywords: hunger; documentary; agribusiness; Third World. Multinational corporations now grow more food in Asia, Africa, and Latin America than ever before. But much of the food is exported while over 500 million people go hungry. Many people believe that hunger is caused by drought, war, or overpopulation. But in the vast Sahel region in West Africa, there is another reason: peanuts! A hundred years ago, French colonialists who controlled most of the Sahel forced farmers there to grow peanuts for the French vegetable oil industry. Peanut farming and processing by multinational corporations expanded rapidly after the Second World War. By the 1960s, peanuts were king of the Sahel. Over have the cultivated land of Senegal, 2.5 million acres (1 million hectares), is now devoted to growing peanuts for export to Europe. Peanuts also deplete the soil. Peanut harvesting uproots the plants since the nuts grow underground. The disrupted soil is gradually carried off by dry season winds. The small peanut farmers are too poor to replenish the soil with fertilizer, so they grow peanuts until the soil is exhausted and then they move on, leaving barren land behind. Today, a terrible drought. The food storage bins in the villages are nearly empty. Malnutrition and famine are spreading. The vast estates in southern Brazil grow soybeans which are processed locally into oil by large American companies such as Cargill, and then exported to Europe and Japan. We can make a difference in overcoming hunger in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We can demand that U.S. government and business policies in the Third World give priority to feeding local people first. We can support movements by peasants to own their own land and grow their own food. In these ways, our brothers and sisters in the Third World will have enough to eat, and will have a future for themselves and their children. These farm laborers in northwest Mexico don’t work for a foreign agribusiness. They own the land they work on. Five thousand landless peasants fought for and took over 50,000 acres of idle farmland here. Peasant leaders recognized that they could not go back to each family farming their own small plot of land. They saw that modern farm technology makes for efficient food production. So they work their land as one large cooperative farm, each member owning a share of the business. They have started a small industry for building their own houses. They have their own schools and their own credit union. Shows clearly that the main cause of world hunger is not weather or war but rather the policies of western multinational corporations in Asia, Africa and Latin America (e.g., Dole, Del Monte, Cargill, Gulf and Western and Bud Antle). Sweeps through the Philippines, Brazil, Senegal, and the Dominican Republic providing devastating statistics and pictures of the scope of world hunger. In each case, the film traces the roots of the problem to the massive displacement of farmers from the land to city slums and the use of farmland to produce food for export instead of local consumption. Shows how the “Green Revolution” was presented to the U.S. public in the l960’s as a way to end world hunger but — because of the profit motive — has led to greater hunger than ever. Spokesmen for the food corporations give their side of the story in several interviews. Relates world hunger to the growing revolutionary ferment throughout the world. Offers solutions based on the principle of “feed local people first” and on the need for peasants to own their own land. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
Duration : 0:13:45