G.M.nO! Genetically Modified Democracy

11/06/2014 28 min
G.M.nO! Genetically Modified Democracy

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Episode Synopsis

More than 60 countries either ban or require labeling on GMO foods; the US is not one of them. As GMO regulation moves to a local level, frustrated consumers and farmers are pushing for state or county regulations, but the seed and pesticide companies are fighting back.
Today, we bring you a special episode investigating corporate control of our democracy and our dinner plates. This program is part of What the Fork, a collaboration between Making Contact, Center for Media and Democracy/The Progressive Magazine and Food Democracy Now.
Featuring:   

Rebecca Wilce, Progressive and ALEC Exposed reporter
Marcia Ishii-Eieman, Pesticide Action Network senior scientist
Don Tipping, Seven Seeds Farm owner
Chris Hardy, Rogue valley farmer
Elise Higley, Our Family Farms Coalition leader
Magdeleno Rose-Avila, Yes on 15-119 volunteer
Barry Bushue, American Farm Bureau vice president
Klayton Kubo, Kauai citizen
Gary Hooser, Kauai County Council member
Dr. Judy Shabert, Harvard Physician
Chris Broussard, Whinney Hee, James Masey, concerned Kauai residents
Dean Okimoro, Farm Bureau Association president
David Louie, Hawaii Attorney General
Harry Stalford & Willow Coberly, Stalford Seed Farms farmers

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