NOTE: We’ve trawled the web in search of the best videos on GM and
related issues. You’ve sent us your favourites, and together we’ve
created a fascinating and informative collection.

Please let us
know anything we’ve missed!

The ‘Introduction’ below is best read
online for the multiple embedded links.
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1.Introduction
to the GMWatch video collection
http://www.gmwatch.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12211
http://bit.ly/ao3jWd

We’ve
divided the videos into categories (like Agriculture, Corporations,
Latin America) and created an ‘Index of speakers’, where you can check
out who’s in the videos, and an ‘Index of GM crops and foods’.

Here
are the different categories.
 
MUST-SEE (currently 14 videos)

This
section contains some of the most compelling videos we’ve come across.
They cover a wide variety of topics as we’ve cherry picked from all the
different categories.

Among our absolute favourites is this
extract from the film The Corporation about how Monsanto got Fox News to
kill an investigative news report into its genetically engineered
cattle hormone.

Another treat is hearing razor-sharp economist Dr
Raj Patel put the case against globalized corporate agriculture,
including GMOs, and its efforts to marginalise the planet-wide push for a
more environmentally sensitive approach to food production
(agroecology).

AGRICULTURE (13 videos)

This section
contains films that place GM in the wider context of corporate control
of agriculture and food production and that show how farmers and
consumers’ interests are being overridden.

Look out for The
Future of Food, a groundbreaking documentary released in 2004, that
distils the key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer
issues surrounding the troubling changes happening in the food system
today.

Farmers Speak: Bust Up Big Ag features passionate
presentations by US farmers who find themselves caught up in the
profiteering of giant agribiz companies.

At GMWatch we’ve focused
more on GM food crops than GM trees. But GM trees are a serious threat
to ecosystems and to tree crops, like fruits. The award-winning film, A
Silent Forest, is a real eye-opener.

CORPORATIONS (23 videos)

We
have a compelling collection of films in this section which act as a
guide to the terrible record of the leading GM corporations in relation
to public and employee safety and protection, regulatory compliance, and
customer care. Look out too for some vibrant and colourful protests.

The
big daddy of all the films about the GM corporations is The World
According to Monsanto. If you haven’t seen this superb documentary,
check out this great review.

CORPORATE TAKEOVER (18 videos)

This
section contains films on how the GM corporations are heading for
near-monopoly control of the seed and food supply.

Leading the
pack is GM/agrochemicals giant Monsanto. Find out about the lawsuit
Monsanto launched against an Indiana seed cleaner and how it plans to
own all seed and what this means for global food security.

Among
our favourite films in this section is Islands at Risk: Genetic
Engineering in Hawaii. Read our review.

CONTAMINATION (8 videos)

Contrary
to the claims of biotech companies, GM crops do not mean more choice:
they mean that choice is taken away as everyone’s crops get
GM-contaminated.

Among the films documenting a few of the many
cases of contamination around the globe is an interview with Cathy
Holtslander of Saskatchewan Organic Directorate, Canada about GM
contamination of organic crops.

And an excellent Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation news broadcast takes a revealing look at how GM
crops are researched and monitored for safety (or not) – and how GM
genes can’t be contained.

LATIN AMERICA (6 videos)

In
Latin America, GM soy production has caused the destruction of millions
of hectares of forest in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. It has
poisoned humans, livestock, and ecosystems.

You can get a very
simple, short introduction to the problem from Farmers Struggle in
Paraguay against Soy Cultivation. Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap
Meat, goes into this important story in more detail.

INDIA (14
videos)

India is another of the key battlegrounds over GM crops.
Monsanto’s GM cotton has been commercialized there but has provoked
considerable controversy. And a huge public and scientific outcry
stopped GM Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine) from being commercialised as
India’s first GM food crop.

A Disaster in Search of Success: Bt
Cotton in Global South is a superb film about the failure of Bt cotton
not just in India, but in the Philippines, and South Africa too. Read
the review.

Bt Cotton Adoption in Vidarbha also shows the
disastrous failure of Bt cotton in some parts of India, where it has
left farmer debt and suicides, poisoned soil, and even reports of
sickened and dead livestock in its wake.

FOOD SAFETY (9 videos)

Look
out for an interesting interview with researcher Prof Gilles-Eric
Seralini. Jeffrey Smith, author of the books Seeds of Deception and
Genetic Roulette, is one of the best communicators on GM food safety –
or the lack of it. His trilogy of films on the topic are all worth
watching and provide a great introduction to the subject for friends,
educators, and decision-makers. Here’s a review of the set, under its
alternative title, Hidden dangers in kids’ meals.

MYTH OF
BIOFUELS (8 videos)

Not all biofuels are GM, but GM technology is
often critical to the development of biofuels, and Monsanto has been at
the very heart of the biofuels lobby, particularly for ethanol and
biodiesel. The videos in this section explain why biofuels have been
criticised for hurting the poor, for causing major deforestation and for
stealing agricultural land essential to farmers in the developing
world. Studies also suggest biofuels may be far worse in terms of
greenhouse gas emissions than even fossil fuels.
 
INDEX OF
SPEAKERS (see below)

If you want to know exactly who features in
these videos or if you are a fan of a particular commentator, our
speaker index is for you. It will even give you the time at which each
of the speakers start talking in the videos they contribute to.

Two
experts who give exceptional value are Dr Vandana Shiva and Anuradha
Mittal. Check out their various contributions on topics as diverse as
feeding the world and Monsanto’s culpability in the high suicide rate
among poor cotton farmers in India.

Someone else to look out for
in the index is Andrew Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety,
particularly when he talks about the cultural context that gave rise to
corporate globalisation and risky technologies such as GM and
nanotechnology.

INDEX OF GM CROPS AND FOODS (a-z)

If you
want to know which videos deal with a specific GM food or product, this
is the place to look. From papaya to wheat, from milk to pigs – the
relevant videos are identified here.
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2.Alphabetical
list of contributors to the videos

This is not an
exhaustive list!

Go to our ‘Index of speakers’ to see which
films these speakers contribute to.
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12105

It
will even give you the time at which each of the speakers start talking
in the videos they are in.

CONTRIBUTORS

Dr Rene Van
Acker, Professor, Associate Dean External Relations OAC, University of
Guelph, Canada

Jane Akre, award-winning investigative reporter

Britt
Bailey, Center For Ethics and Toxics, talks about

Larry Bain,
Chef, San Francisco

David Baker, president, Community Against
Pollution, Anniston, Alabama

Hanny Van Beek, farmer and chair,
Dutch Arable Farming Union
 
Prof Robert Bellé, National Centre
for Scientific Research, Pierre and Marie Curie Institute, France
    
Dr
Charles M Benbrook, Former Director, Board of Agriculture, National
Academy of Science
 
Dr Pushpa M Bhargava, founder director,
Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology

Mahesh Bhatt,
filmmaker and social activist

Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the
Earth

Terry Boehm, Vice-President, National Farmers’ Union,
Canada

Melanie Bondera, GMO-Free Hawaii

Jose Bove, MEP and
farmers leader, France

Beth Burroughs, Executive Director,
Edmonds Institute, talks about

Richard Burroughs, veterinarian at
the US FDA in charge of reviewing Monsanto’s data on its GM bovine
growth hormone Posilac

George H. Bush, then Vice President of the
United States, later President

Dr Elena Alvarez Buylla, National
Ecology Institute of Mexico

Dr Neil J Carman, Clean Air Program
Director, Lone Star Chapter of Sierra Club

Dr David Carpenter,
MD, professor, Environmental Health and Toxicology Division, School of
Public Health, University at Albany

Kirtana Chandrasekaran,
Friends of the Earth, UK

Dr Ignacio Chapela, Department of
Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California,
Berkley

Dr Shiv Chopra, former scientist at Health Canada

Aziz
Choudry, organizer, GATT Watchdog

Dr Eric Cleveland, UHH College
of Agriculture

Ken Cook, president, Environmental Working Group

Claire
Hope Cummings, journalist, environmental lawyer, and author

Tanya
Datta, journalist

Dr Patrick Dixon, futurologist

Steven
Druker, lawyer and director, Alliance for Biointegrity

Dr Samuel
Epstein, head of the Cancer Prevention Coalition

Nancy Evans,
Communications Consultant, The Breast Cancer Fund

Dr Stanley
Ewen, former co-researcher with Dr Arpad Pusztai

Roberto Franco,
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Paraguay

Deborah Koons Garcia,
film director

Dan Glickman, former US secretary of agriculture

Aldo
Gonzales, president of an indigenous people’s organization, Mexico

Diane
Joy Goodman, Farm Box, Products Consulting

Mamadou Goita, civil
society activist, Mali

Prof Richard Gray, agricultural economist,
University of Saskatchewa

Michael Hansen, senior scientist at
the Consumers Union of the United States

Peter Hardin, Editor and
Publisher of the Milkweed

Simon Harris, Organic Consumers
Association

Brad Hash, Native Forest Network board member, talks
about

Margaret Haydon, Health Canada scientist

Karen
Heisler, US Environmental Protection Agency, Agricultural Initiative
Program, talks about

John Hoffman, vice president of the American
Soybean Association (part-funded by Monsanto)

Cathy Holtslander,
Saskatchewan Organic Directorate, Canada

Rick Howard, Professor
of Biology, Purdue University, Indiana, USA

Makiko Irisawa,
environmental activist

Takar Kate, Indian agronomist

Prof.
Masaharu Kawata, molecular biologist, University of Nagoya

Andrew
Kimbrell, Executive Director, Center for Food Safety,

Rajesh
Krishnan, Greenpeace, India

Dennis Kucinich, US Democratic Party
Congressman

Renate Künast, Former German Minister for Consumer
Protection

Kavitha Kuruganti, member secretary, Coalition for
GM-free India

Toivi Lahti, organic farmer, Hawaii

Marc
Lappé, Center for Ethics and Toxics, speaks about

Marc Loiselle,
Canadian organic farmer

James Maryanski, former head of the
biotechnology department of the US FDA, talks about

Richard
Matteis, Executive Vice President, California Seed Association,
California Grain & Seed Association

Jonathan Matthews,
director of GMWatch

Jason McKenny, Purisima Greens Farm

Martina
McGloughlin, Director, Biotechnology Program, University of California,
Davis, talks about

Joe McGonigle, Vice President, Aqua Bounty
Farms
 
Anuradha Mittal, First Institute for Food and Development
Policy, talks about

Dr L Mohan, director, Dept of Animal
Husbandry, AP, India

Pat Mooney, executive director, ETC Group

George
Monbiot, journalist, broadcaster and writer

Monica Moore,
Pesticide Action Network

Surendra Nath Naik, Minister of
Agriculture, Orissa, India

Dr. Ricardo Navarro, president of
Friends of the Earth El Salvador (CESTA)

Nell Newman, Newman’s
Own Organics

Getulio de Oliveira, Leader of Guarani Kaiowa
people, El Dorado, Brazil

Tomas Palau, Sociologist, Instituto
Base IS, Paraguay

Dr Lorrin Pang, MD, MPH, Maui District Health
Officer (speaking as a private citizen)

Mike Papantonio, attorney

Moe
Parr, seed cleaning contractor, Indiana, USA

Raj Patel,
economist and author

Keith Pavo, organic farmer, Saskatchewan

Jeff
Pera, Live Power Community Farm

Ann Peterman, co-director,
Global Justice Ecology Project

Mike Phillips, Executive Director
for Food and Agriculture, Biotechnology Industry Organization

Dr
Ian Pryme, University of Bergen

Dr Arpad Pusztai, former
scientist at the Rowett Institute, Scotland

Dan Quayle, former
vice president of the United States

Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Union
Minister for Health and Family Welfare, India

H.H. Yogrishi Swami
Ramdev, founder, Bharat Swabhiman Trust

Jairam Ramesh,
Environment Minister, India

Mullakkar Ratnakaram, Minister of
Agriculture, Kerala, India

H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankar, founder, Art
of Living

Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group, Mexico

Jeremiah
Ridenour, CEO, Wildwood Natural Foods, talks about

Jeremy Rifkin,
author and president, Foundation for Economic Trends

Aruna
Rodrigues, social activist

Peter Rosset, Food First, Institute
for Food and Development Policy, talks about

Troy Roush, US
farmer

Kiran Sakhari, Indian agronomist

William Sanjour,
former toxic waste expert with the US Environmental Protection Agency

Prof
Dwi Andreas Santosa, Molecular Geneticist, Indonisia

Percy
Schmeiser, Canadian family farmer
 
Prof. Gilles-Eric Séralini,
president of CRIIGEN research group, France,

Robert Shapiro,
former CEO of Monsanto

Devinder Sharma, food policy analyst talks
about

Dr Vandana Shiva, activist, and founder of the farm NGO
Navdanya,

Rajkumar Singh, farmer, Mehtawali, Bathinda, Punjab,
India, talks about

Hartej Singh, farmer, Punjab, India

Yudhvir
Singh, coordinator and member secretary, Indian Coordination Committee
of Farmers’ Movement, India

Jeffrey Smith, author

Gerson
Smoger, lawyer representing Vietnam veterans

James Steel,
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist

Martin Stephan,
Rainforest Action Network

Dr David Suzuki, geneticist

Venkat
Swamy, farmer, Medipally, AP, India

Michael Taylor, former
Monsanto attorney who oversaw the introduction of the FDA’s biotech
policy (some say he wrote it)

Dr Christoph Then, Greenpeace

Kishore
Tiwari, farm activist
 
Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology
and Author

Prof Terje Traavik, Institute of Gene Ecology, Norway

Dr
Colin Tudge, biologist and science writer

Petrona Villasboa, a
mother from Paraguay

Steve Wilson, award-winning investigative
reporter

All taken from:
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12105