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Our generation is in a huge dilemma,
because capitalism,
presently dominated by finance
and the big multinationals,
has imposed a type of farming
whose goal is not to produce food.
Its goal is to make money. 8 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,220 They made lots of dollars with the Green Revolution.
But for people in the 3rd World, it was terrifying,
because the Green Revolution destroyed the soil, water and air.
Biodiversity was destroyed:
India had 200,000 varieties of rice before the Green Revolution,
after 40 years of Green Revolution, there are only 550 left!
India's social fabric was ruined,
because Indian farming was feminine farming,
and it became masculine farming,
with harvests that have regional, national or international value,
whereas before, Indian feminine farming's aim
was to feed the family.
Before 1961,
multinationals had begun
to take control of the food chain.
But they hadn't taken control of seeds. Seeds are life.
He who controls seeds, controls the food chain and humanity.
So in 1961, they established a legal framework called the UPOV.
From that moment, the war was on.
They bought a million seed companies in 30 years
and played monopoly.
Today, 5 multinationals
control 75% of the world's vegetable seeds.
Number 1 is Monsanto.
From then on,
they got rid of all the old varieties
that reproduced normally
and replaced them by F1 hybrids,
creating a captive market.
Now, farmers and gardeners have to buy seeds every year,
since F1 hybrid seeds are by definition
sterile or degenerative.
In Argentina, pesticide use has increased by 4 with GMOs.
GMOs have another goal.
They're a Trojan horse for people who want
to appropriate the planet's genetic pool
and own what belongs to all of us.
Corn is drought-resistant.
They've turned it into a water monster,
guzzling 120 liters per plot.
Now there's no more water,
so farmers in southern France have to stop growing it,
since water tables are empty.
The GMO seed industry shows up and says:
"Hang on, we'll save you from ruin!"
We'll create transgenic corn varieties
that will resist drought.
And there you go!
We started with drought-resistant corn,
then made plants that guzzle water,
and end with transgenic drought-resistant corn.
Instead of keeping our old corn varieties
which were intrinsically and naturally drought-resistant.
Billions were spent on human DNA research,
now we've deciphered some plants' DNA
like oats, cotton, grapes...
They got pissed off, they found oats had twice our DNA.
These guys thought, since humans are superior,
they must have more DNA.
Bad news! Oats has twice as much DNA. And it's a plant.
That made them mad.
There's a huge part of DNA they don't understand.
They call it junk DNA. For them it's useless.
They're so stupid, they think nature has created this molecule,
the most energy-consuming in the world, for nothing.
These geneticists take idiocy to a new level.
It's totally mind-blowing.
Fertilizers and pesticides
used to destroy parasites
shouldn't come from chemicals.
We should look for them in the resources nature offers us.
We've discovered that humanity has survived
over millions of years
because small farmers have developed
this knowledge of cultivating land while respecting nature.
Now we must retrieve this traditional native knowledge
to recover ancient farming techniques
that respect the environment.
Of course, governments don't like it
because they've sold-out to big business.
They're merely puppets running industry's business.
Here's the latest fashion in crops.
The wheat's all rotten with fungus on its leaves.
And that's what we feed our children.
The plant is sick to its core, to its very last leaf.
It's got blotches all over, fungus and fusariosis. The works.
It lives on chemicals.
Look how ugly this ear is, totally bloated.
Wheat used to be "golden"...
It's all gray and ugly.
They've shortened the stalks.
Wheat used to grow this high.
Nitrogen makes them fall over. So they shortened them.
They put in hormones. It's awful.
That doesn't worry people.
It'll go to the silo, and the farmer gets the same money.
So why bother growing good wheat?
Look at the soil.
Look at the cracks. It's not soil!
It's covered in algae.
Algae and moss grow on rocks.
This soil is like rock,
it's completely cracked. It's dead soil.
Farming's over, now it's plant pathology management.
You learn to treat a sick plant at the right time.
We eat sick plants and sick animals, which makes sick people.
Then doctors sell drugs.
Since the same firms make all the products, bingo!
In our 1,500-hectares district, Marey-sur-Tille,
there are only 2 farmers left.
They're told their only value
is their cows *** 10,0000 liters of milk,
their land spits out 10 tons/hectare.
It's always about who can *** farthest.
Schoolboy mentality:
I'm the toughest, I can *** further!
That's not farming.
Farmers feed people, ideally with healthy animals and plants.
They're not doing that.
Their plants and animals are sick.
That's no way to feed people.
Looking into the future,
I don't see it being only urban.
Millions of people in towns who have to be fed,
who don't produce their food,
and a deserted countryside...
It's madness.
Here,
there were 4 or 5 farms operating,
and now there's not a soul. We're alone.
It's unbelievable.
Thee best way to beat international concern`s,
supermarkets, chemistry, bad seeds
The best way to win is to impose a boycott.
This system will be destroyed in 48 hours! So easy!
That`s the time of the new Noah`s Ark. _________________________________