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Synopsis: SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. As chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these reluctant heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Jon Betz (co-director), Taggart Siegel (co-director)
Production: Collective Eye
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IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PG
Year:
2016
94 min
Website
924 Views


You think about crimes

against humanity,

blow up a seed bank in war.

(loud explosions)

It becomes an immediate

target to weaken a country.

(loud explosions)

When we invaded Iraq,

we destroyed that seed bank

and we destroyed that garden.

And we destroyed that repository

of the great ancient seeds

that had been collected

by that government

for the benefit of mankind.

(machine gun clanks and fires)

(bomb explodes)

(cannons explode)

(metal creaks)

During World War II,

Hitler was aiming to conquer

Nikolai Vavilov's seed

bank in Saint Petersburg.

And the people associated

with that seed bank

holed themselves

up in the building

and kept those seeds protected,

even though they were

starving to death

and missiles and bombs were

landing all around them.

(moves into soft and

relaxing strings music)

I remember gardening

with these little hands.

Now they have

gardens of their own

and children of their own.

If there's no one to

pass that seed onto,

that living link and

that living seed is lost.

These are grandpa's

Morning Glories,

the seed that started

the whole movement.

When we started Seed

Savers in the 70's,

we didn't have anything,

we just had an idea and a dream

so we had thousands of

beans in my living room.

It was now our responsibility

to keep all those

bean varieties alive

what we've saved over those

years is irreplaceable

and if we hadn't started then,

we would've lost a lot more.

It's always amazing to me

when I started out with

two varieties of seed

and now I'm here looking at

over 24,000 accessions of seed

that we're permanently

maintaining at the seed vault.

All of our seeds are in

air tight foil packs,

so they're not

maintaining any moisture.

We also store a backup

collection at the seed vault

off the coast of

Norway, at Svalbard.

Svalbard has been called

the doomsday seed vault.

The idea is that if one

of these asteroids hits,

and causes a tsunami that

wipes out part of the world

or there's catastrophic

cultural and economic collapse.

You know, we see all the seed

banks in the world looted,

just for food.

The idea was to have a backup,

like the ultimate

backup just in case

the seed bank is destroyed and

they need their seeds back.

But the problem with it is that

we think that we don't have

to worry about this now.

It gives a false

sense of security.

All the gene banks,

they're all arks.

Ultimately, life does

not go on in an ark.

I'm not confident

that any of us.

Have got something

long term in place

that can weather the slings and

arrows of outrageous fortune

that might come our way

(rain pours intensely)

We're now facing

severity of climate change,

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