Seeds of Death: Unveiling the Lies of GMOs

I am a huge fan of documentary film making. I watch as many documentaries as I can. I am also a biologist, and am already on side against genetic engineering of plants/animals and patenting of life and the general nasty attitudes of the chemical companies who have a stranglehold on our food production systems. So when people say "preaching to the choir" I am indeed a member of that choir.

So why did I hate this film? I am a fact seeker, I am looking for solid information, backed up by evidence. I find hysterics and badmouthing for the sake of badmouthing to be a turn-off in the documentary medium.

This film's first 20 minutes have several talking heads, each and every one of them delivering hysterics, no facts, no plan, no content, just a bunch of crazy flapping lips.

This kind of documentary does a disservice to healthy food politics. It's a real shame. The horrible cinematography and the choice of flapping hysterical lips was so so irritating that I had to shut it down. If it's horrible for the choir, imagine how unconvincing it is to those who need convincing!

If it were just biological, that would be on thing. It's not! Claims against Monsanto poisoning our food are not false! A lot of time has gone by since the airing of this documentary, and there is overwhelming evidence today regarding the chemical aspect of GMO's, and Monsanto is at the root of it all and you know it! Let's be real about this. Facts are facts right? But these days you can go to any website and claim to find the facts. But the truth is...facts claimed to be found on the internet are no longer true, it's really just whatever each particular website says is true. So then the only thing you can really rely on is scientific evidence right? Problem is where do you find that when even scientists are disagreeing and skewing facts so you believe what they want you to believe. So what's left? Evidence! Yes, much of Corporate America contributes to the contaminated environment. Don't get me started on 3M!!!!! That doesn't excuse Monsanto! That doesn't diminish what they are guilty of! Corruption and cover-up. It all comes down to 1 thing...MONEY!! Most of you defending Monsanto have everything to lose if the real truth comes out. The problem runs so deep that it in effect a house of cards. There is a lot riding on the layers and layers of lies! The best thing happening now is awareness and options for feeding our families. As the bees die off from pesticides while trying to pollinate more fingers will point to Monsanto. The truth will surface and many will suffer. Something as simple as killing off bees will change the face of this earth. More than climate change, more than cancer, and more than war! Think about that people when you buy your groceries in the store and support the very corporation that will kill the world, not just one neighborhood, or one state or on country. There are so many components, a chain reaction, from what Monsanto has done. We won't bounce back from the damage that has been done already. People have died across the globe from illnesses because of Monsanto! Farms across the globe that have been in families for many many generations were forced to go under, and some farmers to commit suicide in some countries so their families would be covered financially! Animals have, and continue to, suffer! Bee's are dissappearing! The very balance of our ecosystem has been adversely effected because of sterile seeds! But it's all just Monsanto Myths, right Dr. Steven Novella? Wonder what you have to lose when everyone realizes that your statement... "It's all just big agro conspiracy mongering that's just part of an anti-GMO idelological agenda" ...was actually THE LIE!

Produced by the AIDS denying conspiracy theorist Gary Null. Just hearing that should spark some skepticism towards this movie.

There are so many factually incorrect statements in this documentary it's impossible to go through them all. A clear case of Gish Gallop, the technique of drowning an opponent in so many lies and logical fallacies that it's going to take a whole book just to refute them.

I recommend everyone to remain skeptical and check almost every statement in this movie.

There is no reason to oppose GMO's based on the supposed health issues because there are none as any complete review of the scientific literature demonstrates

In fact most researchers against GMO's have routinely had an agenda and misrepresented their studies for selfish gains.

And when it comes to Monsanto they're no worse than your average corporation and they have just become the icon of corporate evil. Yet most of the claims about them are just outright false.

As for environmental concerns, it varies greatly between climates and in some cases GM crops are better for environment. It really depends on a number of factors.

The largest problem however is monoculture in general and not GM crops. Although GM crops do pose solutions for this and Monsanto did as well, but... (watch the video above)

"It's all just big agro conspiracy mongering that's just part of an anti-GMO ideological agenda." /Dr. Steven Novella, On Monsanto Myths

"This is documentary on genetic manipulation is drivel. Preaching to the choir. " Henry folded his arms. A clear sign of his deviance.

"You stopped watching after ten minutes." Kristl said with a thin smile.

"In those ten minutes I had not seen one shred of evidence, but I did see the seal of the president displayed over two people shaking hands and exchanging money while a voice over laid down accusations of bribery and corruption. Twice the companies were directly connected to agent orange while a Vietnam type movie showed a plane dropping bombs. The word contamination was repeated as much as possible, so we wouldn't miss the word 'contamination'. Contamination! Contamination! It was hammered in drivel clearly aimed at the gut. I had seen enough."

"There is a kind of truth in that. They started to show evidence around the fifteen minute mark. And actually I think the rest of the documentary sort of invoked worry a with me. Not that I was convinced as the movie was so obvious one sided. But you know. I got the feeling it would be wise if there was some investigation into all of this. Just to be sure."

"Duh."

"This is the main problem with this documentary. It is not an objective documentary, but it is a case for the prosecution. And it is so obvious biased that you start to doubt it's message. You feel there might be something wrong with genetic manipulation, but it the movie is like the answer you get when you ask a religious fanatic to give an honest opinion on what is the best religion in the world."

"Preaching to the choir!' Henry said.

"Sadly enough the consequence is that it fails to be effective. The documentary seems to be aimed at convincing the ones who are already convinced and it puts off any anyone who has yet to be convinced. It fails especially in the first ten minutes were they fling accusations of bribery and corruption around without backing them up with evidence. And they also fail by delaying to show people whom we would can connect with. Like farmers. There are some at the end of the movie, but that means you have to sit through an hour of watching people in suits and such talking about how bad these are companies are."

"So you agree with me!"

"Well, a one sided message doesn't have to be a wrong message. If they had just stuck to the facts and only showed the possible dangers of genetic manipulation and the lack of the government to take action, it would have been a better movie..."

"And much shorter one." Henry remarked.

"And that might not have been too bad, most people seem to have a short attention span." Kristl smiled, "About ten minutes or so."

"Tolerating ten minutes of nonsense is not a short attention span in my book. It means I am bonkers and should have stopped watching after five minutes!"

"I wonder if you had not stopped before you even began." Kristl suggested.

"No." Henry shook his head.

"Proof it."

"The title was cool. Otherwise I wouldn't have watched it at all."

"I believe you." Kristl said.

"I thought you would and it took me less then a minute to convince you." Henry said.

Kristl laughed at that.

A lot of 1 star reviews because they're defending the unnatural design of things, we are organic beings everything in here was designed by a higher source of consciousness.

We seem to think that because we are understanding the quantum space and the atomic space, that we can mess with it , and imitate the most high just like messing with our mRNA and DNA , we're going to see horrible things with our health.

Let's never forget that we are organic beings, our bodies but our soul is a bunch of cells organic natural living cells which were design to work in harmony with nature. You can't patent nature but u can patent GMO.