[Solar-general] Fwd: [hipatia-socios] farmer to farmer: a documentary on GM crops farming

[Diego Saravia]

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Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, has been farming
in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on
behalf of family farmers for over fifteen years, traveling extensively
in Europe, India, Canada and the USA.

In this short documentary he investigates the reality of farming
genetically modified crops in the USA ten years after their
introduction. He travels across the US interviewing farmers and other
specialists about their experiences of growing GM.

During the making of the film he heard problems of the ever increasing
costs of seeds and chemicals to weeds becoming resistant to herbicides.

US farmers told him that a single pass (one herbicide application) is a
fallacy and concurred that three or more passes are the norm for GM crops.

As weeds have become more resistant to glyphosate there has been a sharp
increase in the use of herbicide tank mixes (most of them patented and
owned by the biotech companies). Astonishingly some farmers were now
having to resort to hand labour to remove weeds.

Farmers have seen the costs spiral, for example, the price of seed has
gone from $40 to over $100 per acre over the last few years.
Farmers referred to co-existence (the ability to grow GM crops next to
non-GM and organic crops) as “unsolvable” and say that it does not work.


the film is available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX654gN3c4



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