‘GMO OMG’ and Your Right to Know

Dennis Kucinich —

For the last two years, my wife, Elizabeth, has been volunteering her time producing a powerful documentary about GMOs, with talented film makers, Jeremy Seifert (Director) and Joshua Kunau (Producer) whose last film, “Dive!” won dozens of film festival awards.

“GMO OMG”, premiered at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival this year, to very positive reviews, and since then it has won almost every festival it has screened at. We need your help to get this film’s important educational message everywhere. This significant film project needs your help to raise an additional $100,000 to make this happen. Please donate today.

This beautiful, uplifting film is the answer to Monsanto’s lobbying machine!
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I strongly support this film, not simply because I have a brief interview in it, or because my wife Elizabeth is a producer, but because I have personally dedicated more time and effort on this issue than anyone else in government over the past 14 years.

In 1999 I heard a public radio report concerning a university study of a population of Monarch butterflies which were killed or injured while feeding on genetically modified plants. I wondered, if GMO substances could kill or injure butterflies, could GMOs have an adverse effect on animals and human beings as well?

Therefore, in 1999 and in each successive Congress, I introduced bills to test and label genetically engineered products, based on the simple principle that the public has a right to know how their food is made and what it contains. The bills were met with stiff opposition from the Big Ag – Bio Tech lobby, led of course by Monsanto.

Fourteen years later Monsanto has a viselike grip on our agriculture and trade policies, infiltrating both Democratic and Republican administrations alike. This corporate behemoth contributes generously to politicians, and runs misleading advertising campaigns to promote GMOs.

Still, the American public, if given a chance, wants to know if the food we are consuming is genetically engineered. This fundamental right of people is now being taken up at a state and federal level. Internationally, 64 countries have policies which require the labeling of GMOs. Many of those 64 countries have also severely restricted or banned the importation and cultivation of GMOs… And yet, we in America can’t even get a labeling bill?!

Into this mix arrives GMO OMG, a timely, beautiful, heart-felt film about one family’s journey of discovery into the world of GMO’s and the impact of GMO’s on food, agricultural and the environment. It is a powerful educational and organizing tool which brings home the urgency of this issue. Time is running out.