GMO OMG Page #2

Were they hiding something?

Were we all a part of some

gigantic experiment?

Or, maybe, GMOs make us stronger

and faster and healthier,

who knows?

But didn't we even have

a choice on the matter?

Was there a way to opt out

if you wanted to?

And then something happened

that really awakened me

to a much bigger story about

seeds and food and control.

We, the peasants of Haiti,

are the guardians

of the seeds of life.

At the moment,

we see the seeds of death...

invading our country.

Haiti is the poorest country

in the Western Hemisphere.

People suffer from

crippling poverty,

hunger, and malnutrition.

The earthquake made an already

desperate situation much worse.

With hundreds of thousands dead

and countless bodies

lost beneath the rubble

and over a million people

cram into tent cities,

the agrochemical company

Monsanto offered Haiti

475 tons of seeds.

So, why would poor

rural farmers burn seeds?

Was there a hidden threat

in Monsanto's donation?

And when she says it is

disappointing to see people

encouraging farmers

to burn seeds?

The people is this guy.

Yes, it's me.

We think that's a

normal reaction

for a capitalistic enterprise.

Because the objective of

Monsanto is to make money.

The objective of Monsanto

is not the quality of food

that people are eating.

Monsanto's objective

is not to protect life.

It's not to protect

the environment.

When people like me say these

types of seeds are poisonous,

when I say these seeds are

destroying the life of the land

and destroying the people...

That's when I attack

the interest of Monsanto.

Stop Monsanto!

Chase them out.

Monsanto is poison for the air.

Stop Monsanto!

Chase them out.

Monsanto is poison

for the people.

Stop Monsanto!

Chase them out.

Help! Help!

Peasants in the country,

Peasants in the North,

Peasants in the South,

Peasants in the West...

Let's stop them!

It was to change life,

the seeds Monsanto sent to us.

Understand?

We wanted to have our own

homegrown seeds to plant.

We plant produce that you

can plant every year.

With the Monsanto product,

you can plant just one time.

That's why we didn't take it.

They say they have a

gift to give you.

It's a gift to kill you.

It's a gift to destroy you,

destroy who you are.

Because for us,

Seed is something sacred.

It's a natural thing.

We marched against it,

so they wouldn't

leave it in Haiti.

We're headed for a small

town called Mirebalais.

And farmers in this area

received seeds from the

USAID Winner Project

and they planted them.

So, this is probably going

to be the closest we come

to finding these seeds

from Monsanto.

We pulled them up

and threw them away.

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