[Lapg] WATCH SEEDS OF FREEDOM MOVIE

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

http://seedsoffreedom.info/

The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. 
It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food 
system, no matter what the true cost.  It’s time to change the story.
A landmark film from The Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity 
Network.

Narrated by Jeremy Irons.

Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of 
traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being 
transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global 
food system.The film highlights the extent to which the industrial 
agricultural system, and genetically modified (GM) seeds in particular, 
has impacted on the enormous agro -biodiversity evolved by farmers and 
communities around the world, since the beginning of agriculture.

Seeds of Freedom seeks to challenge the mantra that large-scale, 
industrial agriculture is the only means by which we can feed the world, 
promoted by the pro-GM lobby. In tracking the story of seed it becomes 
clear how corporate agenda has driven the take over of seed in order to 
make vast profit and control of the food global system.

Through interviews with leading international experts such as Dr Vandana 
Shiva and  Henk Hobbelink, and through the voices of a number of African 
farmers, the film highlights how the loss of indigenous seed goes hand 
in hand with loss of biodiversity and related knowledge; the loss of 
cultural traditions and practices; the loss of livelihoods; and the loss 
of food sovereignty.  The pressure is growing to replace the diverse, 
nutritional, locally adapted and resilient seed crops which have been 
bred by small-scale farmers for millenia, by monocultures of GM seed.

Alongside speakers from indigenous farming communities, the film 
features global experts and activists Dr Vandana Shiva of Navdanya, Henk 
Hobbelink of GRAIN, Zac Goldsmith MP (UK Conservative party), Canadian 
farmer Percy Schmeiser, Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International, Gathuru 
Mburu of the African Biodiversity Network, Liz Hosken of The Gaia 
Foundation and Caroline Lucas MP (UK Green party).

This film is co-produced by  The Gaia Foundation and the African 
Biodiversity Network. In collaboration with GRAIN, Navdanya 
International and MELCA Ethiopia .