{"id":12986,"date":"2011-07-01T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=12986"},"modified":"2011-07-01T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T21:54:34","slug":"short-film-discusses-gm-crops-farmer-to-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/short-film-discusses-gm-crops-farmer-to-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Film Discusses GM Crops &#8220;Farmer to Farmer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GM Crops Farmer to Farmer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jEX654gN3c4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There have been several points over the past few weeks when I&#8217;ve thought &#8220;You know what&#8230; let&#8217;s just take a break on agriculture.&#8221; Proponents of biotechnology, organic agriculture, and other farming methods get pretty passionate&#8230; but considering that agriculture has a substantial environmental impact, and that we&#8217;re, you know, eating the food produced by farmers, these discussions are bound to get contentious. That&#8217;s OK&#8230; we need to discuss and debate these issues for the same reasons&#8230; so no breaks.<\/p>\n<p>So, to throw a little more perspective out there, I thought I&#8217;d share this short film that I discovered this afternoon, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gmcropsfarmertofarmer.com\/\">GM Crops Farmer to Farmer<\/a>.&#8221; British livestock farmer and small farm advocate Michael Hart travels the US to discuss GM crops with farmers here&#8230; particularly those who&#8217;ve used them (and, in the film, one who doesn&#8217;t). It&#8217;s a small selection of farmers (the film&#8217;s 23 minutes long), but the discussions themselves are interesting. The main issue that seems to come up over and over: the economics of growing genetically modified soybeans and corn (with these farmers noting their costs have risen). Other issues we&#8217;ve discussed, including spread of genetic material, enforcement of patents on that material, the evolution of &#8220;super weeds,&#8221; and the marketing of GMOs to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve learned from our discussions here: I&#8217;m no expert&#8230; so I&#8217;ll leave judgments about the film to you. I did do a bit of research on Hart himself: he&#8217;s served as the director of the UK-based Small and Family Farm Association (which did <a href=\"http:\/\/oro.open.ac.uk\/5071\/1\/LL_GovSustainability.pdf\">take a stand against GMOs from the outset<\/a>&#8230; unfortunately, the organization doesn&#8217;t seem to have a web site, so I can&#8217;t say much more), and appears to have spent much of his time over the past decade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cropchoice.com\/leadstryf7ac.html?recid=1000\">exploring issues related to small farms around the world<\/a>. In addition to the film&#8217;s site, the other information I found about him came from <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m2465\/is_4_30\/ai_63699776\/\">an article he wrote in 2000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the film, and let us know what you think&#8230; I think any additional viewpoints we can get from farmers themselves helps us all get a better handle on these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Liz McClellan of <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperlocavore.com\/\">Hyperlocavore.com<\/a> for sharing this <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hyperlocavore\/status\/86886558661230592\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been several points over the past few weeks when I&#8217;ve thought &#8220;You know what&#8230; let&#8217;s just take a break on agriculture.&#8221; Proponents of biotechnology, organic agriculture, and other&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":16805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,626,904,416,5088,5089,5090,754,5091,3843,262],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Short Film Discusses GM Crops &quot;Farmer to Farmer&quot; 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