Below you will find videos highlighting the dangers of non-gmo and genetically engineered trees, crops, and the threats to Indigenous and Forest Peoples’ land and human rights.

A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests

As policies and programs to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and to enhance forest carbon stocks (REDD+) are promoted around the world by global and national elites, Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities are raising the alarm that these programs will have serious negative impacts — and will not reduce the cascading threats of the climate crisis. This 28-minute documentary introduces the many concerns about REDD from the perspective of the people who are most impacted, featuring interviews and testimonies from Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda, India, and California.

Land Grabbing and Deforestation for Palm Oil

The fastest-growing cause of deforestation across the tropics is the massive growth of palm oil plantations. One company — Wilmar International — produces nearly half of the world’s palm oil.

In the United States, palm oil is in about half of our packaged foods and cosmetics, because global companies are taking over land, wreaking havoc on the environment, and ignoring human rights.

Among the biggest U.S. financiers of Wilmar are the nation’s largest banks, pension funds and asset managers. To save the world’s forests, we need to get our money out of palm oil.

The World According to Monsanto (FULL LENGTH)

There’s nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it — it’s strategic. It’s more powerful than bombs. It’s more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world. The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the “revolving door”. One example is Michael Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to Monsanto, becoming the company’s vice president for public policy.

Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market. Monsanto’s long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence.

Genetically Engineered Trees – The Increasing Threat

The Growing Threat Genetically Engineered Trees – Award winning documentary film explores the growing global threat of genetically engineered trees to our environment and to human health. The film features David Suzuki, who explores the unknown and possibly disastrous consequences of improperly tested GE methods. Producer: tankerenemy. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0