Jeremy Seifert Interview by Jeffrey Smith on GMO Summit

475 tons of seeds from Monsanto given to Haiti inspired this movie by Jeremy Seifert.

THIS IS FROM THE GMO SUMMIT
http://gmosummit.org/broadcasts/


Jeremy Seifert — GMO OMG!
Jeremy Seifert, film director-turned-activist, speaks on humanitarian and environmental issues around the world. He began his quest to understand the GMO issue after having learned that Haitian farmers burned seeds offered by Monsanto. He travelled to Haiti to understand what these seeds were and why an impoverished country, further devastated by an earthquake, would reject them. Thus began Jeremy’s life-changing journey, documented in the new hit film, GMO OMG.

Jeremy is raw, authentic and earnest in his pursuit of sanity in a crazy agricultural maze. Find out about his unique story, and what he learned about the food he was feeding his children.


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Monsanto gave seeds but did not give all of them.

A US BIotech company donated the seed.
The US State Department distributed them.

Biotech Ambassadors....Water Watch...

BIOTECH AMBASSADORS FROM FOOD AND WATER WATCH
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/biotech-ambassadors/



Talks about shocking things:

The seeds were designed for a different climate.

He learned about food sovereignty

This were hybrid, they weren't GMO.

They couldn't afford the fertilizers

The cycle of debt seen around the world.

The Haitians saw that they would lose their indigenous seeds and they saw they would lose part of their culture.

A new form of slavery....

Then goes into Seed Vaunt

Global Crop Diversity Fund, Cary Fowler...

http://www.ted.com/talks/cary_fowler_one_seed_at_a_time_protecting_the_future...

http://www.croptrust.org


"If there is no awe and wonder...

The seeds of the world tucked away in this mountain.
They are so small, and the foundation of life...

see seeds again for the first time.

He talks about his son Fin

He got excited and became a seed saver


After Haiti, I came home and started to research...

It became a very personal issue...

we were surrounded by GMO's...


HE MADE THE SZIZZLE REEL
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmofilmproject/gmo-film-project-untitled


Quotes Wendell Berry...
"There will be no singing and ...in those fields."

All the cousins are talking about GMOs.

Parents coming to me...

Fin and Scout...
it is part of their language...they know food is not all the same...

Food has a system behind it.

Fin is an old soul.

Pearl...is three...

COMMENTS on the FILM

After the premiers, heard stories of suffering at each showing.

told him real personal stories of how they had healed by radically changing their diets.

General reaction...heavy topic...but feel hopeful...

Critics...mixed...

some vicious attacks...
deeper than that..Ax grinding.

hilareous and dishearting...

Scientific America Food Issue

Why labeling is a bad issue...lack of issue....no genuine reporting.

Then, review...

Scientific American Stance.


NEW YORKER CRIticism

Michael Spector...

It has been hard...
I did not know how to respond.
as an insider, also humorous. because it is not true.

spitting out same propaganda of the industry...

Monsanto spin...


THEY SHAME

with harshness...no one says they will like it...
it is very effective...
A lot of

purpose: TO get people not to watch it.

THese efforts are often successful.

Hollywood Reporter review--

That did hurt some of theatrical release in Los Angeles...

they decided it was not a good film...

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ARTICLE ON GMOS SEEMS SO WELL DONE
BUT IS SLANTED

He talks about Omission...

He mentions some reports that we need to go.

Jeremy talks about interviews he had to cut out

Hans Heiren World Food Prize 1995 integrated pest management in South Africa.


Jeffrey says some nice comments in his thank you.

great interview...

HARD TO GET THE FILM NOW...

Wanted to inject it...
slowly spreading theatrically.

sooner than later....itunes...netflix...

GMO-OMG.COM

Tshirts available....

Bashed Dr Oz for having

26 scientists wrote a letter to the EPA...
criticism ...should be access to the seeds...
editor was replaced...

don't feel bad...
it is a merit badge...

they control the messaging...
when they have no argument...
they get personal.


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