{"id":46902,"date":"2019-06-25T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46902"},"modified":"2019-06-25T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:52:29","slug":"modified-a-film-about-gmos-and-the-corruption-of-the-food-supply-for-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46902","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Modified\u2019: A Film About GMOs and the Corruption of the Food Supply for Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018Modified\u2019: A Film About GMOs and the Corruption of the Food Supply for Profit<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Parts of the documentary Modified<\/a> are spent at the kitchen table. But it\u2019s not really a tale about wonderful recipes or the preparation of food. Ultimately, it\u2019s a story of capitalism, money and power and how our most basic rights are being eroded by unscrupulous commercial interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film centres on its maker, Aube Giroux, who resides in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her interest in food and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was inspired by her mother, Jali, who also appears throughout. Aube says that when her parents bought their first house her mother immediately got rid of the lawn and planted a huge garden where she grew all kinds of heirloom vegetables, berries, flowers, legumes and garlic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe wanted me and my sister to grow up knowing the story behind the food that we ate, so our backyard was basically our grocery store,\u201d says Aube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the film, we are treated not only to various outdoor scenes of the Giroux\u2019s food garden (their \u2018grocery store\u2019) but also to Aube and her mother\u2019s passion for preparing homemade culinary delights. The \u2018backyard\u2019 is the grocery store and much of Giroux family life revolves around the kitchen and the joy of healthy, nutritious food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When GMOs first began appearing in food, Aube says that what bothered her mother was that some of the world\u2019s largest chemical companies were patenting these new genetically engineered seeds and controlling the seed market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the film, Aube explains, \u201cFarmers who grow GMOs have to sign technology license agreements promising never to save or replant the patented seeds. My mom didn\u2019t think it was a good idea to allow corporations to engineer and then patent the seeds that we rely on for food. She believed that seeds belong in the hands of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Modified\u2019: A Film About GMOs and the Corruption of the Food Supply for Profit Parts of the documentary Modified are spent at the kitchen table. But it\u2019s not really a tale about wonderful recipes or the preparation of food. Ultimately, it\u2019s a story of capitalism, money and power and how our most basic rights are being eroded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13900,5608,373,643,1980],"class_list":["post-46902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-colin-todhunter","tag-genetically-modified-organisms","tag-gmos","tag-power","tag-profit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46903,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902\/revisions\/46903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}