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There is an upcoming public forum that will take place around Australia from February 25th to March 17th. Two farmers from the US are coming to give talks about the benefits and risks of GM food, based on their experience over the last decade. See the flyer below for more info on the dates for Victoria or read 2009 GM Crops Public Forum in Australia for dates for NSW, WA and SA.

GM Crops Public Forum in Australia Feb 25th to Mar 17th.

The following video is an introduction to The Future of Food documentary.

Some key points it discusses:

• 97% of the varieties of fruit and vegetables have become extinct since the beginning of the 20th century
• Monsanto’s acquisition spree, spending $8 billion dollars buying seed companies during the 1990’s
• Farmers being sued for unwittingly growing GM crops as a result of cross pollination
• The “Terminator” technology that Monsanto acquired to restrict the number of times a seed’s offspring can be replanted

If your alarm bells aren’t ringing after you get a sense of what is happening here, then you need to sit down and spend some time to digest it and ask yourself, “What will this situation lead to? How will it impact my future?”

If nothing is done to stop this activity, it will not be long before NOBODY will be able to grow their own food! Now that is incomprehensible and we cannot allow that to happen. Think about it, GM crops will soon cross pollinate and ‘take over’ every crop producing field in the world if we don’t stop it. Once GM crops have spread to all corners of the globe, there will be no way for us to grow our own food without paying a license fee to Monsanto.

Do you really want to buy seeds from a company that combines it with herbicides and pesticides ? How can anything that interferes with nature’s processes be good for humanity ? Man did not create plants, therefore man has no dominion to butcher them for corporate gain, nor ‘own’ seeds that nature has given to us freely. Just because they may tweak them and add some supposed benefits, do they deserve the right to “own” all future generations of that seed ? It’s just as ridiculous as a fruit shop sells you some fruit and says, “If you replant the seeds of this fruit, you have to pay me royalties.”

The next video talks about how wide spread GM food is, and the terminator technology that limits the generations of offspring a seed will produce.