Fishy Produce: Made in a petri dish

What are Flounder genes doing in your tomato?

The questions you have about genetically engineered food are answered in the The Future of Food, a 2004 film directed by Deborah Koons Garcia.

"THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade," states thefutureoffood.com.

What do our government officials have to do with deregulation and GM food approval?

The film explains that there is an ongoing relationship between government regulatory agency employees and corporate employees. It's like a "revolving door". For example,

• Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, was President of Searle, subsidary of Monsanto
• Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, was a lawyer for Monsanto's Regulatory Affairs
• Linda Fischer, Department Director of the EPA, has been back and forth three times between the EPA and Monsanto

"As we move on into this bio-tech revolution, and we start producing more and more genetic manipulations, we'll start seeing pieces of DNA interacting with each other in ways that are totally unpredictable," explains Dr. Ignacio Chapela in the film. He is a microbial ecologist at University of California, Berkeley.

Find out how genetic engineering can affect us, our families and our future!

The Future of Food: Video four of seven



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrKexPWMeU

Watch them all at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvLBMXC_D0Q