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I am writing this post to ask for your support in the fight against GMO’s in our food supply.

To that end I have attached the video “Genetic Roulette – The Gamble of our Lives”

This is the Full version of the documentary and it is being made available for free by Jeffery Smith, the consumer advocate and author of the book Genetic Roulette.

I know you are busy and even if you don’t have an hour and 24 minutes right now please watch the entire video it will change you forever if you do.

This video has been nominated as one of the most inspirational documentaries of 2012 by AwareGuide’s Top Transformation Film, 2012

After you watch the video please go to and vote for Genetic Roulette – The Gamble of our Lives as the most inspirational documentary film of 2012.

This past summer Kristin and I attended the NOFA Summer Conference in Amherst Massachusetts.   Jeffery Smith was one of the keynote speakers.

We had been following the issue of GMO’s up to this point but only as it relates to The Monsanto Company’s efforts to charge farmers for Genitically modify crops that had invaded their fields through natural channels.

After listening to all of the research we have come to see this as one of the most important issues of our generation.

Please vote for the film Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives as the Top Transformational Film of 2012. 

Genetic Roulette was just awarded the 2012 Movie of the Year by The Solari Report! Now with your votes, we can also receive the AwareGuide’s Top Transformational Film, 2012.

This honor will generate a huge impact on GMO awareness and greatly increase viewership of this powerful tool for real change.

The site had some technical difficulties on Monday, the 28th. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your support. Please try voting again.

I think the full version may only be available for free until Feb 3 so don’t delay

 

Tom

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This video gives some background history of the Monsanto Company and their history of producing products like “agent orange” and in todays marketplace Roundup

Agent Orange, an herbicide, was produced during the Vietnam war. At the time it was being used it often came in contact with humans and Monsanto told us that it wasn’t harmful to humans. They were wrong.

The video goes on to show how today Monsanto is promoting another herbicide, Roundup and how they are again telling us it’s not harmful to humans.

The attached video does a very good job of explaining in 2 min. what GMO’s Genetically Modified Organisms are and the potential harm they can cause in our food.

This video was originally made to support proposition 37 in California.

Proposition 37 would have mandated that all genetically modified food be labeled as such.

Not that GMO food couldn’t be sold just that they had to be labeled.

As most of you probably already know proposition 37 was defeated in California and therefore genetically modified food does not have to carry a label to inform the consumer that they are purchasing a food that has been modified genetically.

The reason that proposition 37 was to defeated was simply Monsanto and others from the Big Commercial Food and Chemical industry significantly outspent the concerned citizens who were in favor labeling.

It’s another example of the Profit of the Corporation being placed before the wellbeing of the average person.

This video was made by our good friends Eat Local Grown.

Eat local grown this website for an organization that helps people find and support local farmers and support direct  consumer to farmer purchase of food.

I hope in your travels on the web you’ll stop by Eat Local Grown and see what they have to say.

If you want to know more about supporting the fight against genetically modified food stay tuned for my next post in which I’m going to talk about Genetic Roulette.