GE Soy is Devastating the Amazon Forest and Destroying the Indigenous People

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Soy producers in Brazil are devastating the Amazon rainforest, stealing native farmers’ land and burning down their homes, and even assassinating their activists, in order to turn the land into massive soy plantations.

Now Brazil has the fastest climbing share of genetically modified soybean crops in the world.

This Greenpeace documentary offers a fascinating and disturbing look at the consequences.

Go full screen on this one!

Soy Beans… Responsible For This?

From www.Mercola.com, Nov 1 2012

“This Greenpeace documentary, based on a lengthy, intensive investigation, discusses how soy producers in Brazil are devastating the Amazon rainforest, stealing native farmers� land and burning down their homes, and even assassinating their activists, in order to turn the land into massive soy plantations.

Three multinational companies�ADM, Bunge, and Cargill�account for 60 percent of the total financing of soy production in Brazil and the destruction of nearly three million acres of Brazilian rainforest between 2007 and 2008.

Brazil is now the second largest soybean producer in the world, second only to the U.S; but Brazil has the fastest climbing share of genetically modified soybean crops.

GE soy crops are associated with resistant super weeds and super pests, uncontrollable cross contamination, and serious health hazards, including allergies, infertility, birth defects, bizarre mutations and cancer, just to name a few.”

This documentary is a real eye opener. Who could imagine the soy bean could be responsible for such devastation?

Best to go full screen on this one, as much of the film uses subtitles.

–Bibi Farber

This documentary was produced by Greenpeace

A new “soy rush” has been kick- started, and large-scale farm producers from all over Brazil are flocking to the Amazon forest in hopes of striking it rich with this golden crop. Yet all this comes at a price. Communities — most often those found in the forest — are often violently expelled from their lands in the wake of this uncontrolled scramble to plant soy.

For Brazil, it’s all in the name of progress. Still, to ask those whom have been chased from their lands and have seen first-hand the ecological wrath which has followed in the wake of soy in the region of Santarem, this new cash crop in the Amazon has brought nothing but destruction and misery.

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Director: Todd Southgate

Producer: Greenpeace

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