Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of our Lives

Jeffrey Smith:
The very *process* of genetic engineering generates unpredicted side-effects.

Jeffrey Smith:
The process of insertion plus cloning creates massive collateral damage. There can be hundreds or thousand of mutations up and down the DNA, and hundreds or thousands of genes can change their levels of expression. This creates unpredictable side-effects.

Jeffrey Smith:
They never checked, if the BT-toxin-gene transfers from, say, corn-chips into our gut-bacteria and continues to function. If it does, it might turn our intestinal flora into living pesticide-factories. This might explain, why 93% of pregnant women tested in Canada had the BT-toxin in their blood as well as in the blood of 80% of their unborn fetuses.

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Narratress:
America... bountiful... innovative... entrepreneurial... diverse... progressive... sick? Americans get sick more often than Europeans and people in other industrialized countries, and they're getting sicker. Since the mid-90s, the number of Americans suffering from at least three chronic illnesses nearly doubled. And America's international ranking for infant-mortality and life-span also plunged. There are many reasons why this is taking place.

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GENETIC ROULETTE - THE GAMBLE OF OUR LIVES]

Narratress:
One may be right in front of you.

Jeffrey Smith:
There is so much increase in the use of Roundup, it's now found by the US Geographical Survey in 60 to 100% of the air-samples, the rain-samples, and the water-samples. It's in the urine of city-dwellers, it's in the blood of pregnant women, it's in their fetuses. It's everywhere.

Gary Hoyer - Chef and Educator:
25, 30, 35 years ago, noone was allergic to *anything*. And now you have allergies, like people who cannot have black pepper... or there's people who are allergic to the basics, like dairy or seafood. Everything! People who are allergic to *parsley*.

Jeffrey Smith:
In the U.S., GMO grown side by side with organics show no difference in yield for soy and corn, except in times of drought, when the organic outperforms the GMO.

Andrew Kimbrell - Director, Center for Food Safety; Author:
No one gets up in the morning wanting to buy a GMO-food. No one, not a single human being on Earth gets up and says, "Boy, I can't wait to go to the supermarket and buy a GMO-food." Now, why is that? That's because after 30 years, and hundreds of billions of Dollars of public and private investment, they have not been able to come up with one thing in this food that actually helps the consumer. No better taste, no lower price, no more nutrition, nothing, zip, zero, nada.

Shiv Chopra - Former Health Canada Microbiologist; Author:
These companies are parasites. They don't care. They want to make money, they want to run governments, and they are right now running governments. I don't know how long, but I think that time is running out.

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Farmer:
I set up feeders, side by side, with regular feed-store feed. And the chickens chose the non-GMO feed. Naturally. They emptied the feeder without touching the other one, so I refilled it, and I says, "I'm gonna play a trick on my birds." I flipped it, flipped the two feeders from spot to spot and the birds still chose the non-GMO food. Which is incredible.

Jeffrey Smith:
People are getting sicker. What's changed? The one thing that's changed is the food. And the most radical change is the genetic engineering of our food supply.