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This interesting documentary movie shows a quiet fact the menaces the future of food production and earth biodiversity. Using the falacy of biotechnology sand genetically altered food solving hunger problem in the world, big international companies, as the paradigm of Monsanto, these companies are trying to stockpile seeds market. They are "patenting live", altering any milenary crops to appropriate them, and suing every farmer that accidentally finds his fields contaminated by their transgenic patents. These companies and the current production system are reducing the diversity of grown species, promoting "mono-farming", just growing a few species of food primary products. Decreasing variability, crops become more vulnerable to plagues and sickness, and this obliges to use chemical products to combat them, products that the same companies control as well. What’s more, these companies are devolping technologys like "Terminator", crops that "suicide" themselves on every season, producing sterile seeds, so farmers can not reuse their own seeds for next season, becoming "slaves" of seeds companies.

In addition, they are preventing the labeling of products containing genetically altered sources, in order to be able to distinguish these products from those not containing them. They do this, not only to avoid any impact on sales due to the (justified) concern about this products, but also to prevent any chance of trace the possible adverse effects of their products on people’s health, like alergies, indigestion, so nobody can connect any side effect with these transgenic products.

And what’s more, they are not putting and end to world hunger, but they are damaging subsistence farmers, because they are pushing transgenic seeds to make them even cheaper than those obtained on their own countries. This way they are depriving farmers of their milenary legacy of improvements and adaptations obtained after generations of crops, making them slaves of genetically altered varieties, that are showing less adaptation and resistance, and in some occasions are providing decreased crops compared to native seeds.

This is a worrying reality taking place in front of us, and in order to change it, it is necessary to demand that international companies as well as economic force cannot be over consumers and farmers rights. People’s health cannot face any risk for this reason. Goverments are becoming accomplice ofo this situation as they do not legislate properly to protect citizens. So to face this  reality, we should promote consuming non-altered products and enforce the labeling of transgenic ones. Biological grown products, not genetically altered are those obtained after generations of evolution and improvements, which has shown over centuries that are safe and healthy, and they do not pose moral issues.

The Future Of Food Trailer in Quicktime format.

Full Movie in Google Video (Spanish): El Futuro de la comida

Read more about Food Sovereignty here.

A few years ago I saw a documentary explaining the effects of methane leaking from the poles and the devasting consequences that they may have. I thought that I would unlikely live to see such an incredible  phenomenon, but "unfortunately", I lived to see it: almost unnoticed this event has been shown on media: Big methane leaks detected on the Arctic by Russian ship. Such gas escapes, are a predicted effect in the "The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis". If this theory comes true, the consequence would be a global warming speed up, as methane inside on arctic permafrost is much more powerful than CO2 on greenhouse effect.

What’s more, the vicious circle in which the Earth climate would enter would be dramatic: global warming caused by human CO2 emissions provokes abnormal and fast ice melting from the poles; methane catched hundreds thousands of years ago leaks from poles permafrost; the greenhouse effect provoked by human CO2 is speeded up by the more powerful methane, increasing the ice melting and the methane leaking.

Of course, life on Earth will survive despite the dramatic and sudden changes: many species will adapt (although most of the species we know will not resist and become extincted). However we seem to cointinue ignoring the dramatic consequences and the global crisis for human living that will come when the great increase of Earth temperature decreases Eart’s capacity to support life and provide food.