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The Peace of Wild Things.
"When despair for the world
grows in me
"and I wake in the
night at the least sound,
"in fear of what my life
and my children's lives may be.
"I go and lie down
where the wood drake rests
"in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
"I come into the peace
of wild things
"who do not tax their lives
with forethought of grief.
"I come into the presence
of still water.
"And I feel above me
the day-blind stars,
"waiting with their light.
"For a time, I rest in
the grace of the world,
and am free."
Having children
makes you start seeing
everything differently.
It's the first time
that either my wife, Jen, or I
had to feed someone
besides ourselves.
You have a little life to
nourish and look out for.
And that responsibility made us
think more about food
than we ever had before.
And so did my son,
Finn's obsession with seeds.
When he was 3 years old,
he thought himself
how to write letters
by copying seed names
out of a Seed Savers
Exchange catalog.
He's 6 now and has
been collecting seeds
for half his life.
Finn helped me take my
first real look at a seed.
He taught his
little brother Scout, too,
and I know he'll share
his love with his sister, Pearl.
His wonder filled me
with wonder.
Which plant will make
a lot of seeds?
That's how simple it is.
It's like every time you
just plant one seed,
it will like grow into a plant
and it produces like
thousands of seeds.
It's crazy.
It's hard enough
just raising a family,
but then, all these
unexpected issues complicate
what's already so exhausting.
You find out about toxic
chemicals in your house,
asbestos in the walls,
BPA in baby bottles,
methyl iodide on
strawberries, lead in toys,
arsenic and heavy metals
in tap water,
antibiotics in meat,
flame retardant from furniture
and breast milk.
Everything causes cancer
and it's all subtle,
hidden, latent.
We tried to be awake and
make good decisions,
to look out for our children
and do our best for them,
but one thing we totally missed.
We just never heard about it
was GMOs,
genetically modified organisms.
Seeds much like
my son Finn's seeds
but with altered genes
and they are in our food
for either good or ill,
I didn't know,
but it bothered me
that we are eating them
and didn't even know
what they were.
I decided to see if anyone
else knew about GMOs,
and that was the beginning
of a very long journey.
We're doing a
documentary on food.
- Okay.
- What people eat.
I'm wondering if you eat GMOs?
I don't even know what that is.
Give me one second.
Hey, girls.
How are you doing?
I got henna tattoo
right over there.
GMO, what's that?
I don't know what they are.
What is that?
I don't even know what it is.
What the hell is that?
What is it?
GMO?
What's that?
Genetically modified organism.
Oh.
So, you don't know.
They don't know.
I don't know.
Nobody knows.
Like, cattle, chicken?
I eat anything.
Any hot chicks eat them?
No, I'm not sure because
I don't know what they are.
Does it taste good?
What are GMOs?
GMO, I don't know what it is.
That would not help me.
I don't know.
Don't ask me that stuff.
Like, I don't know.
Ask her.
Do you eat that?
What are they?
Genetically... um...
Man, I'm lost.
OK, how do we know
if eat it or not?
I heard something about
strawberries with fish
or something like that.
It's like gen... genetically
made something,
I know, but I don't
know what the O is.
I don't know what they are.
I don't know what that is.
Genetically modified... organic?
No, gen... genetically
modified...
- organisms.
- Organisms.
How is it possible
that we are also clueless?
It felt weird not knowing
something so basic
about one of the most
essential things in our lives.
I suddenly felt uneasy about
all the food we are eating.
So, I did some research to
answer a very basic question.
What is a GMO?
According to the World
Health Organization,
GMOs are organisms in which
the genetic material
has been altered in a way
that does not occur naturally.
But what does that mean exactly?
It gets complicated
pretty quickly.
They involve Agrobacterium
tumefasciens
and vectors and Ti plasmids
and Cry1Ab genes
taken from soil-dwelling
bacteria called
Bacillus thuringiensis.
They are glyphosate resistant
enzymes called EPSPS
and my favorite gene gun with
protoplast electroporation
bombarding cells with
gold particles
coated with DNA encoding,
but in plain English, there
are two basic types of GMOs,
pesticide producers
and herbicide resisters.
Apesticide producer kills
insects like Monsanto's Bt corn.
A gene from a naturally
occurring bacterium
is inserted into
the DNA of corn.
The modified corn produces
a toxin lethal to insects.
An herbicide resister is
immune to weed killer
like Roundup Ready soy.
The DNA is altered with a
soil bacterium's gene
to make the plant immune to the
weed killer called Roundup.
Farmers douse their fields with
Roundup to kill every weed
and unwanted plant,
but even when coated
in herbicide,
the soy plant remains unharmed.
I couldn't find anything
definitive
on the health effects of GMOs.
Most studies were only
three months in length,
done by the same company
selling the GMOs.
The studies aren't peer reviewed
and they refused to release
the raw data to the public.
Were they hiding something?
Were we all a part of some
gigantic experiment?
Or, maybe, GMOs make us stronger
and faster and healthier,
who knows?
But didn't we even have
a choice on the matter?
Was there a way to opt out
if you wanted to?
And then something happened
that really awakened me
to a much bigger story about
seeds and food and control.
We, the peasants of Haiti,
are the guardians
of the seeds of life.
At the moment,
we see the seeds of death...
invading our country.
Haiti is the poorest country
in the Western Hemisphere.
People suffer from
crippling poverty,
hunger, and malnutrition.
The earthquake made an already
desperate situation much worse.
With hundreds of thousands dead
and countless bodies
lost beneath the rubble
and over a million people
cram into tent cities,
the agrochemical company
Monsanto offered Haiti
475 tons of seeds.
So, why would poor
rural farmers burn seeds?
Was there a hidden threat
in Monsanto's donation?
And when she says it is
disappointing to see people
encouraging farmers
to burn seeds?
The people is this guy.
Yes, it's me.
We think that's a
normal reaction
for a capitalistic enterprise.
Because the objective of
Monsanto is to make money.
The objective of Monsanto
is not the quality of food
that people are eating.
Monsanto's objective
is not to protect life.
It's not to protect
the environment.
When people like me say these
types of seeds are poisonous,
when I say these seeds are
destroying the life of the land
and destroying the people...
That's when I attack
the interest of Monsanto.
Stop Monsanto!
Chase them out.
Monsanto is poison for the air.
Stop Monsanto!
Chase them out.
Monsanto is poison
for the people.
Stop Monsanto!
Chase them out.
Help! Help!
Peasants in the country,
Peasants in the North,
Peasants in the South,
Peasants in the West...
Let's stop them!
It was to change life,
the seeds Monsanto sent to us.
Understand?
We wanted to have our own
homegrown seeds to plant.
We plant produce that you
can plant every year.
With the Monsanto product,
you can plant just one time.
That's why we didn't take it.
They say they have a
gift to give you.
It's a gift to kill you.
It's a gift to destroy you,
destroy who you are.
Because for us,
Seed is something sacred.
It's a natural thing.
We marched against it,
so they wouldn't
leave it in Haiti.
We're headed for a small
town called Mirebalais.
And farmers in this area
received seeds from the
USAID Winner Project
and they planted them.
So, this is probably going
to be the closest we come
to finding these seeds
from Monsanto.
We pulled them up
and threw them away.
Because they came up withered,
turned red.
They weren't good for us,
so we pulled them up
and threw them away.
They made us pay.
So now we lost both
money and seed.
It didn't do us any good.
That's why we say to Monsanto:
Thanks, but we won't
continue with them.
There is a choice,
and I think consumers have
an important role to play
in pushing their countries,
industrialized countries,
to change their
mode agriculture.
The Haitians weren't
the only ones protesting
genetically modified seeds
in the biotech industry.
Resistance was springing
up all over the world.
For Haiti, accepting
Monsanto's gift
would mean losing
their own seeds,
their food sovereignty,
an essential piece of their
culture and way of being.
And they were fighting for
something that we had lost
without even knowing
we were giving it up.
They believe that the seeds of
life are the common inheritance
of all humanity,
as numerous and diverse
as the stars above,
owned by none,
and shared by all.
No one was marching back home.
There were no protests
in the streets.
It was business as usual
and people were
lining up to eat food
that ultimately comes from
the same chemical company
that the farmers in Haiti
were crying out against.
I had to do something
however small.
So, I began at the
most obvious place,
educating my own children.
Boys, I made you some
GMO goggles, OK?
Can I have that one?
Yeah.
But let me tell you
how they work, OK?
Uh-huh.
- See this part?
- Uh-huh.
Lets you see inside of the food.
Cool.
So, you can see if it's got
genetically modified food in it.
You got to be really
gentle with these.
They're super high tech.
What do you see?
OK, guys, look over there
at McDonald's.
Daddy, are you crazy?
There's no GMOs.
Is there anything on the menu
thats not genetically modified?
Give me one minute.
Yeah. I'm in search of food
that's not genetically modified.
- OK.
- It's kind of a question I'm on.
I figured we could
just go to Whole Foods,
the biggest organic
supermarket in the county.
But I was wrong.
Eighty percent of all
processed foods contain GMOs
and even Whole Foods
hasn't stayed pure.
You guys don't carry GMOs,
do you at Whole Foods?
Um... we're not supposed to.
Thank you, bye.
OK, he said all of our
produce are 100% GMO free.
Our meat department is GMO free.
- All the meat?
- Uh-huh.
Is like GMO-free, they
don't eat GMO corn or soy?
If it's not organic,
it most likely is fed
genetically modified feed.
At the time, I still thought
that "All-natural"
meant something. It doesn't.
I wonder if this
is... it says "All-natural",
but milk,
since it's not organic,
that means it comes from
cows that eat
genetically modified
corn and soy.
Oh.
- So, this ice cream...
- Daddy...
In our products,
sugar listed in ingredients
may be beet sugar or cane sugar.
It's not practical for us to
isolate and identify
genetically engineered
ingredients.
In other words,
I can't tell you if it's
genetically engineered or not.
Well, it is natural.
But we're eating them.
Even if it's
genetically modified,
do you still like it?
Uh-huh.
Years and years from now,
when you're older,
it might hurt you.
Do you care?
I care.
You care?
But you're going
to eat it anyway?
Mm-hmm.
But...
And it's not
making me dead still.
Well, if you eat too much
of it, it will make you.
This is the best ever.
Were the GMOs the best ever?
Or were they poison like
the Haitians believed?
We loaded up the van and
went looking for answers.
Five minutes from home, we
had to stop for lunch already.
What do you have?
Uh, some ham.
So, that has GMOs in it, too?
What about the cheese?
Cheese.
That is the direction of
Monsanto's headquarters,
but this is Monsanto's corn
that's feeding all of us.
So, you want to get
your goggles on to see it?
I'm a farmer
and I'm an independent
seed sales representative
for Pioneer Seed Company.
We have to have chemicals
to control weeds
so that we can produce the
amount of grain that we have,
just can't produce
it without chemicals.
Unless you're an organic farmer,
you're going to
purchase chemicals
to control those problems.
So, having a chemical company
own a seed company
is hand in hand.
Watch yourself
or you'll get hurt...
How come it's green and red?
It's treatments.
There's treatments on it.
OK.
That treatment is for pests
that are under the ground
that will inhibit the growth
of the bean
from coming out of the ground,
worms and bugs and soil
borne diseases as well.
Is this Roundup Ready?
That's one of the
genetic traits that's in it,
- is Roundup.
- OK.
These weigh 59 pounds a piece.
And how much is a bag of corn?
This particular bag of corn
here runs about $350 a bag.
That sounds like a lot.
It's a lot.
I've been a dealer for 10 years,
and when I first
started to sell corn,
it was about $80 a bag,
corn was.
You need large equipment
to get it done fast
and it requires a lot of
output of money to do that.
The family farm is going
by the wayside in a hurry.
Do you see this as
like a good shift?
The fact that we have
less people on the farm now,
in my opinion, is not good.
It's no different than when
you go into a town
and the Wal-Mart's
are taking over
where there used to be
Amida's and Alco's
and Gibson's and your
five-and-ten-dime stores.
My great grandpa in the
house that I live in
had spiked nails in
the attic of the house
and he would take the
best healthiest ears of corn
in the fall of the year
and stick them on those spikes
and he would just take the ear
and jab the ear on to the nail
and then it would just
sit there and dry.
And then, he would shell those
kernels off the next spring
and plant them and that's
how he raised corn.
In 1860, farmers made
up 58% of the workforce,
but the rise of
industrial agriculture
rapidly replaced people
with oil and machines.
Today, farmers make up less
than 2% of the workforce
which means there are
more prisoners
than farmers in the US.
The farmer community is kind of
like a lot of other business,
they either had to
get bigger or get out.
Your margin per acre
is very few dollars,
so they've got to do lots
of acres to have anything,
you know,
at the end of the year.
Three thousand acres
is considered really just
average to small farm.
Is it true that the farmers
can't save the seeds?
Yes, it is true.
You cannot save seed to replant
because, you know,
it's patented.
I'm tickled today that the
companies are doing the research
and providing us with the good
seeds that they are because
our yields have increased 50%
probably in the last
10 to 15 years.
If the yields have
increased that much,
how about people's
actual salaries?
The good Lord kind of
takes care of that.
If you're fortunate enough to
get rain and make a good crop,
yes, you could
make a little money.
What it costs to
grow an acre of corn,
equipment cost, land cost,
and if they don't make a yield,
they don't make a crop.
That person could
be out of business.
I don't think that
these have corn syrup,
but they do have canola oil.
The funnel cake is fried in it.
Do you still want it?
You don't care that
it's genetically modified?
I do care,
but I'm going to ignore
that I care for a minute.
- Does it deter you in any way, seriously?
- A little bit.
No, it does a little like...
Watching them eat it
makes me a little horrified.
Scout, no.
Scouty.
It's making them violent.
Thank you for calling
customer service.
This is Angela.
I was trying to set up an
interview with someone
at Pioneer just about the
seeds you guys make,
the... OK.
I called all the major
GMO chemical companies,
multiple times,
with a simple request,
as a concerned father.
Are these products safe?
There was avoidance,
suspicion, transferred calls.
All right.
Nobody knows were to direct me.
Is there a pretty likelihood
that I'll be able to get
an interview with
someone at Monsanto or...?
Like I said,
I'll pass it on to them
and have someone
give you a call back.
OK?
Weren't they proud
of their products?
Wouldn't they want to
show off their innovations,
how they were feeding all of us?
I left messages with my name
and email and phone number,
but I never heard
from any of them.
Here in Iowa,
we're surrounded basically
by GMO corn and soybeans.
Is there anything you
think I should know?
Well, I think
consumer education is key.
Nobody knows.
And I think the biotech industry
would like to keep it that way,
that people remain unaware
of this issue because,
in general,
the more people know,
the more they're shocked
and surprised as you are
about this whole issue
and the potential negative
impacts on human health
and the environment.
The corn we see growing around
here is actually registered as
- a... pesticide?
- As a pesticide...
And then, but it's also a food?
Um... well, that's debatable.
So, would I be accurate in
saying that Monsanto is feeding
us and my children pesticides?
In a way, you could say that.
You could say that.
How is registered pesticide...
Yeah, it's getting
into the food.
Yeah,
it's getting into the food.
How is that possible?
You know, that's a
lack of regulation.
Well, it's... it's
pissing me off.
Yeah. I know.
The more people
find out about it...
I mean that...
You find out about it...
It's outrageous.
It's an outrage.
It's totally, you know,
unbelievable.
I mean, I'm... I'm ready to
get into a fistfight like,
- right away.
- Yeah.
X... Oh, Monsanto.
Oh, Mr. Saint.
Go see if they'll
chat me up a little bit.
- Hey.
- Hey, how are we doing today?
Good.
How are you doing?
May I help you, sir?
I'm working on a
documentary on food.
No.
OK, just a second.
Here you go, sir.
This is the site rep.
You need to talk to her.
I'm sorry?
- She's already on the phone?
- Yeah.
How did you know?
Hello?
How did you call...?
I mean, it's kind of weird
that you're calling me
and I just wanted to ask
somebody about the product
and if it's for sure safe and...
You're asking me to leave?
I...
OK. OK.
Bye.
Do you guys sell hats
like, Monsanto...?
No, I'm sorry.
We don't.
- Have a good day.
- Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
A woman that I talked to
earlier this morning
at a different Monsanto facility
was on the phone
and they handed the
phone to me and she said,
"Jeremy,
you need to leave right now."
Monsanto and the other
major agrochemical companies
are also the world's
biggest seed companies.
The top three companies
control over 53%
of the worldwide proprietary
seed market.
The GMO seeds and chemicals
of these giant companies
grow most of the food we eat
because soy and corn
have found their way
into nearly everything,
cows, chickens,
and pigs are raised on them.
So, most of the meat
and dairy in this country
starts with the GMO crops.
We have a recipe that
we use of chemicals
that allows us to no till.
So, I put two and a half quarts
of Lumax on per acre.
A Lumax has a low level
of atrazine
and I just need a
little more atrazine
because it gives me a
little more residual.
And then, I put 40 ounces
of Gramaxone on per acre.
The two products together will
suppress the weeds in this field
hopefully enough that I
won't have to re-spray it again.
If I do have to
re-spray it again,
the corn that's planted in this
field is Roundup Ready
and the Roundup will not
affect the corn,
but it obviously
will kill the weeds.
So, what are your thoughts
on organic farming?
I think organics is a choice
and I think organics
are a good thing.
However, the fact
of the matter is
organic farmers per acre
are not going to produce
as much as a commercial
farmer is going to
that uses all the
science that's available.
I feel an obligation to
not just see United States
but to the whole world
that there's a billion people
that live on less
than a dollar a day.
So, if we all have
planted organic,
and let's say, we cut
our production by 25%,
what are you going to
tell those billion people,
you can't eat?
So, that's why I choose to
use GMO seeds or herbicides,
fungicides, insecticides.
Now, in a certain point,
you have to trust our regulators
and our scientists.
I think they're good people.
And we do have, you know,
a safe and abundant food supply.
I love all the trees.
That's... The book I'm writing
now is At Home in the Woods,
pretty... pretty good, isn't it?
- I mean...
- Yeah.
- It's pretty accurate.
- That's nice.
Yeah, I go out here
like an old fool.
Well, I'll show you out here.
I still grow a little
open pollinated corn
just to thumb my nose
at Monsanto Claus.
How do you do that?
How do you grow
open pollinated corn
surrounded by genetically
modified corns?
Well, by now, it's
probably contaminated.
Well, the neighbor,
he has a cornfield right side
of mine this year.
I used to be able to play it
so that where he had corn,
I have corn far enough away that
hopefully it wouldn't pollinate.
A farm can be contaminated
by either GMO seed or pollen.
Insects or wind carry
GMO pollen for miles
spreading it to non-GMO crops.
Their DNA is altered,
giving them GMO traits
like Roundup resistance.
The contaminated farmer is
now growing GMOs illegally,
in violation of the
chemical companies' patent.
Monsanto alone has sued
hundreds of farmers
for this kind of patent
infringement
and they have threatened
thousands of others
with lawsuits,
bullying them into
buying their seeds
and using their chemicals.
The main thing that they say
about the reason we need them
and this biotech
and industrial Ag
is to feed the world.
Can we feed the world like this?
I need to sit down and tell you
about how angry I get
when they say they're going
to feed the world, you know.
That's just... I
don't know if... if, uh...
uh, GMO grains are better
or worse for you
or healthy or not healthy.
I don't know, don't know
anybody who does know,
but that's not the point to me.
These people are
trying to patent nature.
They're trying to
patent all the, you know,
nature really.
They own it.
In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled
that living organisms
could be patented.
The race to own the building
blocks of life had begun.
To think they could own nature,
patent plants like that.
I don't think it's moral.
And it's now the
accepted practice.
I'm very concerned
of what we eat
and I will eat without doubt
anything I produce
with no hesitation.
I'm uncomfortable with
the patenting of the seeds.
OK.
Just because it's
ownership of... of life and,
and it seems strange that you
could patent something that's,
that's living.
Let me give you an example.
OK.
- Can we walk down here?
- Yes.
This oats niche is for
the Amish Market
because it yields well and
cuts well with the binder,
and I'm not saying that
I'm for patenting seed.
- I'm just saying by allowing them
to patent this germplasm - Yeah.
It gives them an opportunity
to get that money coming in
to help fund the research.
Right.
It's become very difficult to
avoid genetically modified food
and the reason
I want to avoid it
or think that I want to avoid it
is because it's like,
the science is still out.
My fear is not from the
genetically modified seed,
what we're putting on that
genetically modified seed
and how much of that is
absorbed by that plant.
The seed itself,
the genetic modification,
will not hurt you,
but if it's resistant to Roundup
and we spray that plant
with Roundup,
does any of that Roundup
get in to the grain.
Yeah.
And that's what you said
has not been tested
and not brought forth to
the public and that's true.
Now, walk down here with me.
This is a giant ragweed.
Giant ragweed is resistant
to glyphosate
in eight or nine states now.
So, you... if you don't
dump Roundup on this,
it's not going to kill it?
There is resistance here
and it's becoming
greater all the time
and they have identified,
I don't know,
9 or 10 or 12
resistant weeds to glyphosate,
but there's different chemistry
you can use to control them.
In this field right here,
if there were no chemicals,
you would see nothing but this
and there would be no crop,
none,
because this would take over.
- Can you eat that?
- No.
Dang.
Technologically,
we are to the point
where we're going
to have to deal with
genetically modified germplasm.
Are you a religious man?
You don't have to be.
Yes, but I don't go to
church every Sunday.
Well, that doesn't
mean anything,
but I'm just wondering from a
religious perspective if you,
you know, believe in
creation or God
or even... or even believe in evolution
that, now, with
genetic modification,
we've done something that
has never come before.
We sort of are playing God
and taking, you know,
one organism over here
and another one
and jamming them together.
But we haven't
created a new gene.
- We're just modifying the old...
- We're taking...
We've taken a gene from a plant
that is resistant to
glyphosate naturally
and insert it into a plant
that we want to produce
to feed the world.
From the very
beginnings of agriculture,
over 10,000 years ago,
humans have struggled
with pests.
For a millennia, we grew
our food organically
without any chemical inputs,
but around 900 A.D.,
Chinese farmers began
using arsenic sulfides.
By the 1800s, lead and arsenic
pesticides filled orchards.
The deadly gamble of
poisoning insects
without poisoning
ourselves had begun
and was about to get much worse.
After World War II,
the battle with nature
became an all-out war.
Chemicals produced for
explosives and nerve agents
were reformulated as
fertilizers and pesticides,
then rained down on
farmland around the world.
In 1945, 200 million pounds
of pesticides were used.
By 2000, it had ballooned
to 5.1 billion pounds.
The result?
Over 500 species of bugs are
now resistant to pesticides.
GMOs emerged in the '90s
as the industry's most
advanced weapon against nature,
plants engineered to
produce pesticides
and withstand deadly
weed killers.
But as weeds and
bugs quickly adapted,
the cure became a curse.
Roundup Ready crops gave raise
to Roundup resistant weeds
and they're ravishing
fields across the country.
Horseweed, Ripgut Brome,
Annual Bluegrass,
Hairy Fleabane,
Goosegrass,
and the monstrous Pigweed
can bathe in weed killer
and still grow up to 3 inches
in a single day.
Bugs like weeds have
adapted more quickly
than we ever thought possible,
overcoming our deadliest
chemical concoctions.
Superbugs like the
Western Corn Rootworm
have found a chink in
the frail GMO armor.
The ravenous Cotton Bollworm
feeds on the Bt toxin
engineered to destroy it,
and now, it's stronger than ever
and has an insatiable appetite.
Hop out.
See this gigantic cornfield?
Uh-huh.
It stretches on
forever and ever?
Uh-huh.
Come here.
When my grandparents were kids,
they used to run and
play in the cornfields
because all the corn is really
close together this way,
but the other way they're rows
and when you go inside,
- you can run down the rows,
- Cool.
Inside this huge cornfield.
- Do you guys want to do that?
- Yeah.
But listen, the problem is this
is genetically modified corn
and it's been modified to
produce its own pesticide.
- So, it actually is a pesticide.
- OK.
So, we have to wear
these special suits.
What are we doing?
Well, I'll show you.
- What's this thing?
- OK, then your arm goes in there.
Not every kid gets to play
in a GMO field of corn.
We're almost ready to have fun.
And you just have to breathe
really hard like this...
because it's cleaning
the air, right?
This is like,
turning into a nightmare.
I don't know where they are.
Was that fun?
Yeah...
Please, can we do it again?
Can I have water?
Yeah, we'll get some water.
Oh, I couldn't hardly breathe.
Really the problems that farmers
begin to spray for
are there for a reason.
They're taking advantage of
a weakness in the system
that we've created as farmers
and I'm not suggesting
that any farmer
that uses chemicals in
their production system
is a bad farmer
or doing anything that
they're not being told to do.
USDA says, in Iowa,
that for every bushel
of corn we produce,
we're losing 44 pounds
of topsoil on average.
Now, we can do that
for a period of time.
States like Iowa are blessed
with tremendous resources
in terms of soil,
but we can't do it forever.
What we're doing is we're
trading short-term production
for long-term unsustainability.
And that's just a tradeoff that
we just can't afford to make
for future generations.
It's unfair.
We're not suggesting
that we go backwards.
We're suggesting that we take
advantage of that technology
that makes sense
but really discard those
pieces of technology
throughout aren't in
our best interest as a society.
Which are?
GMOs.
After 30 years of
side by side comparison
of organic and
chemical agriculture,
the Rodale Institute's
farming systems trial
proved that organic yields
match conventional yields.
You're telling me that organic
corn and soy will produce...
- The same.
- Just as much
as conventional
genetically modified?
Correct.
In the beginning,
the GMO outperforms.
It really does well
under perfect conditions,
but there is no longevity to it.
And in times of flood ordrought,
organic crops
actually perform better.
It's not three years of data.
It's not 13 years of data.
It's 30 years of data.
It's hundreds of scientists
and it's hundreds of peer
reviewed publications.
So, what was going on?
The industry's
strongest argument
to justify their
chemicals and GMOs
and the ever-increasing price
to farmers and the environment
was that we had to have
them to feed the world.
They spend millions on
advertising to convince us
that there's no other way.
Seven billion people,
one billion of whom
are malnourished.
Today, the population growth
is occurring in Asia
and other parts of the world.
How we are able to
produce food, increase it,
while at the same time being
able to supply to those in need,
is going to be the
challenge that we face.
There's a billion people
on earth
going hungry right now
and many of them are farmers,
small farmers.
We have the tools in our hands
today to address the challenge
of global food security.
Anybody that says we're going
to be using GMOs and Roundup
a thousand years from now
to feed ourselves
is deluding themselves.
It's just not going to happen.
But if we talked about
organic systems
being in place for
a thousand years,
we know that that can work.
So, the myth that organic
can't feed the world
has been disproven.
It's wrong.
We can feed the world
and what we know now
is that we can feed
the world well.
OK, boys, we're here.
It's Seed Savers.
Do you see it?
Look at that.
Dude, this is
killing me already.
I've been waiting for like,
years to go to Seed Savers.
Like, I thought I would never
go to Seed Savers like,
now I finally get to.
Here we are, my son.
And and my third farm
to go to in my life.
Yes.
What are you going
to look for here?
Uh, seeds.
Seeds?
This was the farm
of endless diversity
whose seed catalog had captured
Finn's imagination
when he was 3.
And that passion for
seeds had led us here.
Someone has to be paying
attention to all the pieces.
All the genetic diversity
that we have,
it needs to be identified,
saved,
and distributed
and enjoyed again
and grown in people's gardens.
We started Seed Savers
with that idea
of seeing through any other
people out there interested
in saving old seed
and there was.
Today, we have 24,000 different
accessions of seed
in our collection.
We're saving genetic diversity.
So, until we know,
we can't make a decision
that we'll never need a
amai tomato again
in our food culture,
but we shouldn't through it out.
And so, we're saving all the
pieces and that's what this is.
It's a beautiful puzzle.
When you see this, how
could you let this disappear?
Seed Savers was a tiny
oasis of crop diversity
in a massive ocean of sameness.
We learn that,
in the last hundred years
in the United States,
up to 93% of our
crop varieties have vanished.
They are gone for good because
we have replaced diversity,
seed saving and sharing,
and the farmers themselves
with the corporate-run
industrial monoculture.
The sheer immensity of
what we have lost
is a tragedy on its own,
but it's much more than
losing the beauty and flavor
of those varieties.
As we lose genetic diversity,
we lose traits that could be
the key to saving our crop
from diseases or pests
or the changing climate.
Loss of diversity threatens our
very survival on this planet.
I want to go over the rainbow,
Mama.
Yeah?
I was continuing
on to Washington, D.C.,
without my family.
They needed a break
from the road,
but I had to keep on going.
Don't eat McDonald's.
Yeah, I am going to eat them.
As I drove through
field after field
of identical GMO soy
and corn and cotton
drenched in pesticides
and herbicides,
owned and patented by
giant chemical companies,
I wished I could reach out
and take back the land
for my children.
The reason I'm here is
finding out about GMOs,
finding out that a lot of the
food I'm feeding my children
has GMOs in it, why is it
that these are not labeled
and what's being done?
Well, first of all, of course,
it should be labeled.
I don't know what the impact
of consumption
of genetically engineered food
does to the human body.
I... I don't know.
One thing for sure,
precautionary principle
would dictate
that you should give people
a choice
of whether or not they're
consuming these products
and if people choose to consume
genetically modified food,
they should do so knowingly.
In Europe,
if anything is written GMO,
people would just
leave it on the shelves
and that's why the industry
doesn't want to label
because they know that that
people could actually say,
"Hmm, if I have a choice,
I take the non-GMO."
That led me to introduce to
the House of Representatives
a number of bills covering GMOs
including a labeling bill
and the labeling bill
would require that everything
that was genetically modified
have to, have to indicate that.
Well, that's when
Monsanto went to work.
It seemed possible that Vermont
could pass the bill because
the people in the
state of Vermont
wanted to see
that legislation passed,
but our friends at Monsanto
threatened to sue the state
if that bill was passed.
We've moved forward
on the GMO bill
and delighted to see
Republican and Democrat
representatives
and Senators with us
all of whom believe as we do
that people have
the right to know
what they're putting
in their bodies.
Connecticut's GMO
labeling provision
was eliminated after Monsanto
threatened to sue the state.
State after state has
attempted to label GMOs,
but none have succeeded.
And yet, over 60 countries
around the world
require labeling of GMOs
including Russia,
India, even China.
By far, the biggest attempt to
label GMOs at the state level
was California's ballot
initiative proposition 37.
Over six million people voted
to label GMOs in California,
but the industry spent over
45 million dollars to defeat it
and won a narrow victory
by just 3% of the vote.
You said it's in
all of the foods,
80% of the foods?
80% of processed foods.
And I eat a lot of
processed foods.
So, you eat GMOs,
but you didn't know it?
No, sir.
I don't eat processed foods.
Do you eat out ever?
- Do you eat meat, sort of dairy...
- Yeah,
I don't eat meat,
no, no, no meat, no dairy.
Wow. Very good.
Do you eat soy?
Soy, yeah.
93% of soy is
genetically modified.
Oh, why you have
to tell me that.
So, if you eat out, if you...
Oh, we eat out all the time.
Do you eat 100%
organic or just...?
No.
OK.
So, you eat GMOs?
Probably.
We have an organic garden here
in the back of the White House,
and it symbolizes
good healthy food,
and then, behind the walls
of the White House,
they're promoting chemical food
which is untested
and we don't know what
the health risks are,
what the environmental
risks are.
This is unbelievable to me
that this irony sitting
right here is so thick.
Where is the outrage?
Today, we produce 4,600
kilocalorie per person per day
at household levels.
That's twice as much as we need.
So, today, we produce enough
food to feed 14 billion people.
Now, who is out there saying
we need to double
and who likes those numbers?
The industry obviously.
In 1992,
under heavy pressure from
the biotech industry,
the FDA declared that GMOs
were generally recognized
as safe,
G.R.A.S., a designation only
given to food additives
that have gone through
rigorous scientific testing
and been proven safe by
overwhelming consensus
from experts.
They didn't have
any scientific basis.
There were no peer
reviewed studies.
Absolutely, no
longitudinal studies.
These are relatively
new products
and they then opened
the gates up.
These foods can
create new allergens.
They can make a
nontoxic food toxic.
They can lower immune response.
They do lower nutrition.
We've heard this from our
government scientists
they weren't listening to, but
we know that that was there.
The precautionary
principle says that
if you're not sure,
you don't do it.
And that's not what
is being done today.
There's something
extremely wrong
when a government becomes
captive to one industry
and pushes nonrenewable,
debt-creating seeds,
that destroy biodiversity
and independence
and self reliance.
And we can see now all of sudden
how this all fits together
and who is behind
the government.
It's always the industry
and we know the revolving door
policy here in the US.
Michael Taylor is the
revolving door poster boy.
In 1976, Taylor became a
staff attorney for the FDA.
Then, the joined the law
firm representing Monsanto,
then back to the FDA where he
oversaw policy for Monsanto's
genetically engineered
bovine growth hormone.
From there, he headed up
Food Safety and Inspection
at the USDA.
Then, back to Monsanto.
Finally, he has returned
to the FDA
as the second
highest-ranking official
pushing the deregulation
of genetically modified
alfalfa and salmon.
Michael Taylor is one of many
who used government
to feed corporate greed
at public expense.
We tried talking to
as many experts
and politicians as possible,
but the rabbit holes
were endless
because GMOs involve almost
everything you can think of,
world hunger,
international trade,
the patenting of life,
the rights of corporations
now defined as people,
the corporate takeover of
government and universities,
the loss of independent
research and science,
anti-trust investigations,
the multibillion dollar
farm bill
and our tax dollars essentially
subsidizing this whole mess,
the future of food and seed,
peak oil, and climate change,
labeling and the right to
know and choose as free people,
but what it all really boiled
down to was one thing.
Why are we doing this
is really the question.
And the answer is very clear
because it is huge money.
In the end, a few companies will
control what the farmer grows
and what you have in your plate.
One of the things we've learned
in the last five years
is that we can have seemingly
powerful institutions
that turn out to be extremely
vulnerable and brittle.
Our banks in the financial
collapse were too big to fail.
OK. Well, our energy system
and our agricultural system
are just as top heavy
and just as vulnerable.
And what that means is
not as with the banks
that we should like,
bail them out
because they're too big to fail.
It means that anything that's
too big to fail is too big
and we need to build
down this system,
spread it out,
make it more stable,
and I think that's the key.
We do not know the effect
of this grand experiment
that is being vested
upon humanity
by the purveyors of genetically
modified organisms.
If, in fact, we are what we eat,
then we certainly
should be mindful of
the nature of the products
were are consuming
so we know what we will become.
The sun just went
behind the clouds
There's darkness
all around me now
I've just destroyed the
world I'm livin' in
I broke her heart
so many times
And now I've finally
broken mine
And I've just destroyed
the world I'm livin' in
What made me think that
I could go on hurtin' her
I should have known
there had to be an end
But schools of love
are taught by fate
We never learn
till it's too late
And I've just destroyed
the world I'm livin' in
I was worn out and overwhelmed
and needed to get away
from everything for a while.
So, I took my family to one of
our favorite camping spots
in the Sequoia National Forest.
Is there anything sacred left?
Will they genetically modify
these ancient giants
to grow faster so we can
harvest more wood?
There are nearly a hundred new
GMO vegetables and fruit
in the pipeline waiting
to be released.
GMO eucalyptus trees
are already being grown.
There are glow in the dark
rabbits and cats,
spermicidal corn,
goats that lactate
spider silk protein,
salmon that grow
four times faster,
and thousands of other
science experiments
altering the world around us
mostly for profit.
Even human genes,
thousands of them in
our bodies right now
have been patented by
companies and universities.
Are there any limits
to what we will do,
to what can be owned?
Just because we can do it,
does that mean we should?
Who is watching over this
new power to alter creation?
Whoo-hoo,
I caught a rainbow trout.
After Washington, D.C.,
I had trouble trusting anything
even the rainbow trout.
Have we really escaped GMOs
way up here in the wilderness?
All the fishes eat
are these pellets.
This food is sponsored by the
FDA like it's all approved.
Pretty much it's like what
they give chickens and stuff.
They're like steroids
to make them bigger.
Where do all these fishes go?
We have a different hatchery.
There's 23 different
hatcheries in California,
but pretty much, we'll just
put them in lakes for fishermen.
Do you know who the supplier is?
Silver Cup is one and then
the other one is Rangen.
Hello, this is Leon.
Yeah.
Hi, may I speak to someone
about the ingredients
in your fish pellets?
Oh, OK.
- What's...
- Before you eat it?
Yeah, exactly.
The main ingredients, you
have fishmeal and wheat flour.
You got some soybean meal
and it could be
genetic modified.
I don't know that for sure.
But I know it's not organic.
So, there you have it.
Rainbow trout caught way up in
the Sequoia National Forest
with your children
in a beautiful pond
and you catch that first fish
as a 4 or 5-year old boy
and it's genetically modified.
What a world we live in,
unbelievable.
Our kids still looked out
at the trucks in the evenings
begging me with their eyes,
knowing that the trucks
were filled with stuff
that tasted like heaven on earth
and they wanted it bad.
Who doesn't want to buy
their children ice cream
on a hot summer day?
But I felt increasingly
uneasy about it
because I was beginning
to understand
what's really hidden inside
a simple ice cream cone.
Opting out of a type of food
like GMOs that are everywhere
means opting out of
culture and tradition
and we weren't ready
to do that completely.
Hey, what about our candies?
I want candy.
No.
Everyone was getting tired
of my obsession with GMOs.
We still didn't know if there
were any health risks
unique to GMOs.
So, we let our kids have
fun with their friends
and experience the
excitement of Halloween.
Candy at every door poured
out by adoring strangers.
That's for you.
Thank you.
Did you draw this downstairs?
What is it?
Fire.
Fire?
Oh, I see some cavities.
- Yeah, I thought...
- They're trying to get you...
I thought I actually
saw some for real.
Did you?
Starting to form.
From all the sugar?
I have some black teeth.
- Some black teeth?
- Yeah.
- I hope not.
- Why?
You're too young.
Did you know that in one day,
I'm going on a plane
all the way to Norway
to this island called Svalbard
and it's almost all the
way up to the North Pole?
Why?
On this island,
they've created the Svalbard
Global Seed Bank.
Do you know how cold
it is inside the vault?
How?
Minus 15 or 20 decrees
in the coldest parts.
You go through this
tunnel underground
and it's inside this mountain
and that's where all the seeds
from all over the whole world.
The seeds are about 135 meters
into the mountain.
We're talking about the most
secure seed bank in the world.
It's an insurance policy.
What we mean to do is,
of course, to prevent
extinction in the future.
We have 700,000 samples coming
from every country on earth.
In every country,
the food industry
is the largest industry
that you find.
In the US, a quarter of the
trucks rolling down the road
have something to do
with the food industry,
and at the very base of that,
at the very foundation of that,
what makes the whole
thing possible,
the whole food industry,
food security,
our life on earth, it's seeds.
This crop diversity
is a common heritage.
And so, when you walk
into the seed vault,
what you see is,
for the first time that I can
think of in my lifetime,
countries, virtually all
countries in the world,
come in together for a common
endeavor with a common purpose
that's very long-term
and it's positive.
I think there's a lesson
to be learned there,
about an awareness
of interdependence
and what that means in terms
of our responsibilities
to each other
and how we ought to be
treating each other.
We haven't found any
GMOs in this entire island.
We found a bottle of ketchup.
It was Heinz American Ketchup
made in Germany with sugar
instead of corn syrup.
So, you have American companies
making products for
Europe differently.
Instead of corn syrup,
they're using sugar.
We're doing a
documentary on GMOs,
- genetically modified organisms.
- Oh yeah.
Norway is quite strict
about that.
It's not allowed.
So, Norway is very...
I think Norway is seeing it
as a very dangerous thing.
That is kind of... we
don't want to...
We don't want to eat or
use or anything like that.
So, that's always when you
go to school in Norway
and you have your kind
of science book here.
- You learn the dangers of it.
- Yeah.
We don't want to know
what's going to happen
if you eat or
do things like that. So...
So, you don't eat them?
No. In a Norwegian market,
it's not allowed.
So, it can well happen
that I've eaten it,
that's it's been in some corn
or something like that,
I don't know how good they
are at separating things,
but like by the law,
it's not allowed.
It's a weird thing to
think about though
because if you're eating
a tomato
and you have the genes of the
scorpion inside the tomato,
it's like, it's not the way
nature made it.
In order to be
approved in Norway,
a GMO will be evaluated
according to our gene
technology act.
This is an act from 1993
which says that a GMO should
not have any health risks
or environmental risks.
In addition,
it should contribute to
sustainable development,
be a benefit to society,
and ethical.
So, this broader approach
to GMOs are very good
in order to capture all
the different elements
that we should take
into consideration
when we say yes or no
to a certain GMO.
Historically, the greatest
threat to crop diversity
has been the modernization
of agriculture.
If you want an agricultural
system that's vibrant
and healthy and doesn't require
lots of pesticides
and other chemicals
and gigantic amounts
of fertilizer and water,
then you're going to need the
diversity in the seed vault.
It's absolutely necessary
to that type of clean,
healthy, green agriculture.
Well, I thought we were
going home after Norway,
but we've ended up in France
because this a two-year study
on the health impacts of GMOs
and Roundup was just
released by this Dr. Seralini,
and this is a question I've had
from the very beginning
when I first found out
about GMOs
and that was never, has
never been really answered.
It's what are the health
impacts of GMOs, if any.
Dr. Gilles-Eric Seralini
is a professor of
molecular biology
at the University of Caen
and serves as president
of the scientific board
for the committee of
independent research
and information
on genetic engineering.
Seralini set out
over two years ago
to conduct the most thorough
toxicological test
on the health impacts of
Monsanto's Roundup Ready
NK603 GMO corn
which was approved in
the European Union
almost a decade ago and after
only a three-month study
by Monsanto itself.
Seralini's plan was to study it
over the full life of a rat
with the aim to predict how
humans might be affected
by consuming GMOs.
Beyond the GMO corn itself,
he tested the health
effects of Roundup,
the most prevalent
herbicide in the world,
found in our soil,
streams, air, rain,
and recently in human urine.
What Seralini found after
two years of detailed analysis
went beyond this own
projections and concerns.
His findings erupted
throughout Europe.
Well, I really appreciate you
taking the time.
So, I guess my
first question is,
as a scientist
and as the lead author
of this two-year study,
do you think there are
implications for human health
from GMOs?
Of course, I think there are
severe implications
for human health
due to my research.
We have demonstrated
clearly that,
in males, especially
livers and kidneys,
were reached at
the very high level.
Kidneys were also
reached in females,
but females were prone
to big mammary tumors.
The first signs
of health effects
occurred in the
fourth and fifth months,
results of three-month
studies would have never seen.
At 14 months, 10 to 30%
of treated females
developed tumors.
There were no tumors
in the control group.
At 24 months,
50 to 80% of females
had up to three
tumors per animal.
The groups treated with Roundup
showed the greatest rates
of tumors at 80%.
Pituitary glands in females
were the second most affected.
The androgen and estrogen
balance in serum was modified
by both GMO corn
and Roundup treatments.
In males, the liver,
hepatodigestive tract,
and kidneys suffered most
and estrogen levels
more than doubled in males
with the highest
Roundup treatment dose.
We've been eating GMOs
in some form in the
United States for 15 years.
So, why aren't people walking
around with big tumors
or obvious health effects
in our country?
So, what would translate
six months in a rat's life
to human years?
Two years of a rat
is an entire life.
So, as tumor arise, mostly by
the end of the first year
and within the second year,
so that means
at the end of the
first part of the life
which is around 30 to 40
and we are surprised to
see a lot of breast tumors
in women within
this part of life.
We don't know what
they are due to.
I'm not saying that
everything is due to GMO,
but I think that GMO
could contribute
to some extent to these tumors.
We have the fact that Roundup
can kill human cells
at very low levels
and even lower levels close
to the levels you find in
the river or in the tap water,
then you have hormonal effect,
hormonal imbalance
within the cells
that are necessary to form the
genital system, for instance.
Less than a day
after Seralini's study
was published in France's
top scientific journal,
the Science Media Centre
of London
put out a press release
discrediting the report
with criticisms from
eight top scientists,
all of them with strong ties
to the biotech industry.
They are well known, these
people that defend Monsanto
because they are the first one
to show in the media to say,
"Well, Seralini's
study is nothing,
and they don't want
to open the basket
in order to show
what they have done.
They can renew the tests
on their own
and show what happens,
but in the meantime,
we should request to forbid
these products.
Professor Seralini
was widely criticized
for the type of rats he used,
the Sprague-Dawley variety,
but this was the same kind of
rat Monsanto used in its studies
to prove the safety
of its GMO NK603 corn.
Their three-month study
wasn't questioned
but instead led to its
market release in the EU.
Seralini was also criticized
for not releasing
his study's raw data,
but he has offered to do
so if Monsanto will also release
its raw data.
Monsanto has refused.
The shame is that
in North America,
you don't have any
traceability of the food,
so you don't know
really who has eaten what.
Everybody is eating
contaminating levels
of these products.
Ninety-eight percent of
agricultural edible GMOs
are just made in the countries
where there is no labeling.
So, the first thing
is to obtain labels,
but there is another
simple thing
that doesn't cost one dollar
but that will change the world.
You request by the law
the transparency
on the blood analysis on rats
that have allowed
the authorization
the market's release of GMOs
and then we will
really go in another world
in the real 21 st century,
I hope.
There may be legitimate
criticisms of Seralini's study,
the number of rats
and the kind used,
but shouldn't his discoveries
give us pause
and more reason for
further research?
The tumors, liver
and kidney damage,
were far higher in rats eating
GMO corn and Roundup
than they were in
the control group.
That alone is frightening.
Shouldn't we verify his study
before blindly dismissing him
and feeding our children GMOs.
It would cost these multibillion
dollar companies almost nothing
to fund independent
transparent studies
to test the effects of the
consumption of GMOs
for all to see,
but they won't do it.
Neither will our own government.
What if Seralini is right?
Are we willing to risk
dismissing him?
One of the reasons
I don't like GMOs
and I have a problem with
these biotech companies,
they say to the farmer
you can't save the seeds
at the end of the year.
What if they came in here
and told you,
"You can't save these
seeds because we own them.
You have to come
buy them from us."
I would not like that.
Why?
Because I want to save seeds.
If nobody buys them, then the
company will just give up
and not do it anymore,
not give food to those stores,
and then, there won't be
any of that food anymore.
That's right.
Finn's love for seeds
isn't going to instantly solve
the onslaught of GMOs by
giant chemical companies,
but it's a starting place
because, ultimately, it's
not about being against GMOs
or against big industrial
agriculture and chemicals.
It's about being for what
is good and healthy
and right for us in the planet.
If we do that, the bad stuff
won't have a place.
We are just now learning
what Sir Albert Howard
said so long ago
that the whole problem
of health and soil,
plants, animals, and humanity
is one great subject
and after 15 years of silence
in this country,
we are finally beginning
to wake up
and join with millions of others
in a food movement
that has become a great
awakening around the world.
Change of that system
is possible,
but there won't be space
in that system
for certain industries anymore.
New one will be created.
Old ones got to go.
Monsanto and lobbying
power of agribusiness,
that's all that's
coming in the way
between ecological systems
that protect the planet,
provide food,
and bring life back to our rural
areas in our countryside
and our small farms.
Last year, the USDA said for
the first time in 150 years
that there were more farms
in America instead of fewer.
I think that's the single
most hopeful statistic I know.
It's clear that
people want it labeled,
and yet, it's not and why not.
Well, they don't want it enough.
They're not yelling
loud enough, you know.
In the defense of
the seeds of life,
the greatest symbol
we can offer...
is to burn the seeds,
which symbolize money,
symbolize death.
In defense, to defend the
seeds of the peasants...
...is to defend the
seeds of life.
When you raise your hands
and look to the sky,
you are looking to God.
You can't control your body.
When you're moving
your body like this
that means the pain
is hurting you.
You can't talk,
you're just crying out to God.
This type of dance is a protest.
The dancing and singing
is a protest against GMOs.
It's empty in the
valley of your heart
The sun, it rises
slowly as you walk
Away from all the fears
And all the faults
you've left behind
The harvest left no
food for you to eat
You cannibal,
you meat-eater, you see
But I have seen the same I
know the shame in your defeat
But I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name
as it's called again
I certainly would like to know
what I'm eating.
Absolutely, hundred percent.
You know, if
there's nothing to hide,
then disclose it
and let people decide if
they want to eat that.
Yeah, I'd like to know
what I'm... what I'm eating.
Yeah, we should know.
We should know
what's in our foods.
Of course,
they should be labeled
because you should know
what you're eating.
I mean, you know what
you're putting in your body.
I mean, that's simple.
Right?
Tell the truth and reveal.
If you hide it,
then it means probably
there's something haywire.
At the end of the day, it's your
health and you have to know.
Your voices, your presence,
your energy is so needed.
We need your voices to
get back to Washington, D.C.
We need the members of
Congress to hear your concerns.
And I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name
as it's called again
I think you all need to stop
giving people ,
that they don't
even know what it is.
You need to figure it out
before you start serving it.
Isn't that what the FDA is for?
To all the love I lost
Hey just tryin' to play boss
To all those friends I hurt
I treated em like dirt
And all those words I spewed
Nothin' sacred nothing true
To all these ghosts I turn
I'm ready now to burn