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Bitter Seeds is the final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy, following Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town and China Blue. The films won 18 international awards, aired on over 30 television channels and screened in more than 100 film festivals. They also connected viewers to NGO action campaigns and encouraged Western consumers to understand their impact on the rest of the world. Bitter Seeds explores the future of how we grow things, weighing in on the worldwide debate over the changes created by industrial agriculture. Companies like the U.S.-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified (GM) seeds offer the most effective solution to feeding the world's growing population, but on the ground, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where an epidemic of farmer suicides has claimed over a quarter million lives. Every 30 minutes one farmer in India, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family, commits suicide. http://teddybearfilms.fatcow.com/2011/10/01/bitter-seeds-2

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Daaaaaang man. That's dark.. :(

Fuck Monsatan

STOP GMO !!

Monsanto have to be stopped and soon as possible, they play like they are god but they are the devils for our nature, scum it is, not more, not less!!

Great video...

Did I not pay attention, or did this documentary seem really negative, not even attempting to address the problem with possible solutions? I hope these people have adapted and developed a healthier balance with nature, as one can learn more about if they search for Geoff Lawton's food forests, as well as, the Green Gold documentary, but with all this negativity, I'm not so sure. ?

Monsanto does this in other countries too! shouldn't be much of a shock to me but it was.

This is a documental about what we are living (search for Documental 9.70 de Victoria Solano)

Now Colombia is victim :( look at the news on internet, the government, as condition to approve the TLC with US, agreed to force our peasants to plant GMO seeds but they can´t afford the high prices. Actually we are in a national protests against this. I like you support us.

did you even watch the video? i now place the documentary "bitter seeds" on my bucket list of films to watch

Hybrid Vigor? Yes it is true that hybrids generally are stronger and better yielding. This seems like magic in modern times. Poor farmers are romanced by these properties into trying these seeds. They are sold the benefits and not told the real detriment which is that unlike their old, free-pollinating varieties which will grow the same product year after year from their own seeds, the hybrid's second generation will fail, requiring them to buy more seed. Corporate exploitation of the poor.

Have people not heard of hybrid vigor? That's why farmers don't save seeds anymore, hybrid seeds are extremely difficult for farmers to produce on their own and companies like Monsanto can provide that service. Ask any farmer who continuously buys hybrid seed.

Its Shocking But true....Its happening because our system fails.

Be a good slave, go suck Monsanto, more than you 're actually doing.

MONSANTO = A Satanic Deception to Enslave the Entire Planet

The problem is labeling and price. Monsanto is working very hard to not label their foods whether they're produced with GMO or nonGMO's. What the American people need to do is get more involved in demanding the labeling and choice.

Baja’s production of US-bound organic tomatoes has grown requiring lots water. commercial cultivation of organic tomatoes is putting stress on the water table. In some areas wells have run dry meaning that small subsistence farmers can’t grow crops. This luxury product for export squeezes out people who are trying to feed themselves from their own land. & this arrangement is not building wealth & pulling people out of poverty in this part of Mexico tinyurl .c om /ckvvzkd

♥ very, very impressing pictures - this trailer shows the problems of indian farmers very well! Life is so beautifull and we have to try to stopp this injustice as quickly as possible!

I agree. That's why these films are made -- to create awareness. :)

Good point, I always buy organic to support organic farming. Problem is not everone is aware or belives eating organic is better for you. Guess things will have to get alot worse before poeple realise what they are doing.