The Film

During the past four years, director Adriano Sverko has been travelling the world, talking to farmers, scientists, field workers, and a myriad of other thoughtful and concerned people to document their experiences with the biotech industry.

What makes this movie unique is that it is not just about good versus bad, or right versus wrong; it is a search for opportunities that lay behind the technology.

Once more people better understand genetics, might there be a shift in consciousness, outside the realms of scientific research? How can society better finance and enforce safety testing?

How can the industry improve its professionalism by being more direct and less insulting to those who are its critics?

Discover, learn, explore.

Here's what experts are saying...

"[The GMO variety] was alot healthier plant because it was resistent to corn borers."

- Ralf Doren, Farm Manager

"I feel the good Lord knows alot better what he's doing with the genetics and DNA of these plants - more so than what these scientists do at this point in time - but he's also going to give them the free will to get themselves in trouble."

- Howard Vlieger, Organic Rancher
An early adapter of GMO corn

 

"Many Swedish consumers associate GMOs as the food of the future, representing science fiction — something relating to a laboratory."

- Louise Ekström, Director, Consumer Reports, Sweden

"We can take genes that encode properties of the living organism from one source and put it into an alternate source for the benefit of mankind."

- Pal Maliga, Rutgers University Researcher and Lecturer

 

"The idea that you're just putting one gene in and getting one event out is totally false."

- David Schubert, Macrobiologist, Salk Institute

 

"The gene itself didn't do it. It's the genetic engineering - the way how it was bombarded - how it disrupted the cell's [genetic] network structure that activated some toxins in the potato plant."

- Arpad Pusztai, former Rowett Institute Scientist
(terminated due to his publicizing research proving
GMOs need more proof as to their safety)

 

"When we talk about crops, [genetic engineering] can be used to create resistance against unwanted fungus, an insect or virus. It can be used to improve harvest quality. You can also strengthen or restructure starch, change the protein structure or add new vitamins, previously absent in the plant. You can create very much with this technology, but the question is: What are we willing to pay for it? "

- Kristofer Vamling, Research Director
Plant Science Sweden AB

 

"Every time you take a product, you have a chance of poisoning yourself. And there is no way you can know which products are genetically engineered...."

- Dayna Tolley, former US Intelligence Employee
(and EMS survivor)

 

"[Consumers must] say 'We don't want genetically engineered foods. These companies will listen, and as a result, they'll stop buying genetically engineered crops, and that will kill the market."

- Ken Roseboro, Publisher, Non-GMO Source

 

"The theory that the biotech industry tells us is that it's a very precise insertion and all they're doing is adding one single trait. That's definitely not true."

- Jeffrey Smith, author, Seeds of Deception

"I told the US Department of Agriculture Representative to no longer come visit our office with these types of pressure tactics and emotional blackmail, because this is not dialogue."

- Jagoda Munic, President, Zelena Akcija
(Croatian affiliate of Friends of the Earth)

 

"Too many scientists in New Zealand are fearful to raise their concerns with some aspects of biotechnology."

- Susan Kedgley
New Zealand Minister of Parliament

"I dont know whether genetically engineered food is good or bad, but people have the right to eat as they please - to be carefree or careful, precautious or playful. Food is the building block of the body temple. It is the primary ingredient for the child, athlete, academic, spiritualist, and peak performer in all of us. No administration, scientist or seed provider has the right to take our decision-making away from us. It is our divine right as humans to choose our food."

- Adriano Sverko, Director