License to Farm - Official Documentary
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- A documentary exploring the role of science, sustainability and food safety in modern agriculture, encouraging farmers to stand up for their right to farm. Visit www.licensetofarm.com for more information or follow our social media channels: License to Farm on Facebook and @licensetofarm on Twitter and Instagram!
Traditional practices of organic agriculture are just as up-to-date now as they were back in the 1950s. They are not outdated
And indigenous peasant agriculture around the world, were it survives, is still by far the most advanced and sophisticated like has always been the case.
Now an irreversible oil crisis will teach farmers a lesson
This video is a) obviously promoted and financed by Bayer and b) extremely biased on the affirmations. It is true that GM technology can/could provide solutions to climate change adaptation and food security, but it is also true that it has been and still often is extremely devastating to the environment due to the unsustainable, large scale, intensive agricultural practices it induces. In addition it has been driving many farmers into large debts due to prohibitions on re-using seeds, the enforcement of certain farming techniques, etc. both in the global north and the south, and all this is also scientifically proven by many MANY articles you can readily find on platforms such as the Web of Science or PLOS One.
Indeed!
I am grateful to the farmers that grow the food i choose to eat. I choose food grown organically thank you.
As a farmer I know how difficult it is to become profitable. This video is nothing more than a PR piece. Maybe they should have more accurately named it "License to farm with GMO's". Hey I like canola oil but to assume we HAVE to have roundup ready canola is a joke. We need better crop rotations, smaller or narrower size fields, intercropping, windbreaks (even better profit alleys), gps guided auto-steered SMALLER tractors that are electric, more wildlife and wildlife habitats on farms, more beneficial insects and insect habitats on farms, more ponds, sloughs, swales, more diversity NOT LESS. Get me started!!! The industry wants to be able to do more, bigger, faster, cheaper. I want to also but not in a more monoculture, more bigger machinery, more simplified fields way. I've worked in western Canada and the scale of agriculture dwarfs anything in the east. Individual fields are so large there in no way for beneficials and wildlife to help control pests. It is WAY too far for them to reach the inside of fields. The hedgerows have mostly been ripped out (like in most places), many of the shallow ponds have been filled in since they get in the way of the big equipment. ARGHHH!!
+Stefan Sobkowiak Thanks for taking the time to offer a thoughtful response. It's important to keep the dialogue going, so we find the common ground. I don't think anyone wakes up every morning wanting to do bad, but if we are not well informed our actions might result in unintended consequences.
Stefan Sobkowiak We do not want any Gmo here in Europe either. roundup should be used with caution and as with antibiotics, we make the weed resistant to spraying agents. how much do you spend per hectare ?? over 4 liters ?? 2-3 liters and everything is dead and is used every 4 years.
Stefan Sobkowiak ❤️💕💛❤️ 4 mins in I called BS! Everything you said is bang on! I live in The city, & buy local & non-gmo as often as possible. Bigger is not better!
Stefan Sobkowiak - I completely agree. Round-Up Ready allows the corporation to claim, Monsanto, to file lawsuits against the farmers because of cross pollination. Shouldn't Round-Up be banned, since it's a poison that genetically modifies the organism? Way to go Jimmy Carter for allowing Monsanto to create patents for Monsanto seed. 🤔
Amen. Came to the comments 11 mins in to say the same thing. They are pushing a square rock down the road instead of fixing the root problem. Which is lack of biodiversity and design.
Thank you for making this documentary. Hoping to see more of this information spread this way. We should chat!
"Farmers face a new challenge" at minute 00:56 we cut to a Non GMO Label. Yes. A new challenge. Transparency... I have to pause to get a note book, this 30 minute journey will require some note - taking, and some time from my work to address some of the statements that I am about the hear. It looks lovely, very professional. Please see the COABC, OCO, COTA and Think Before You Eat campaign to hear another perspective - from the pioneers - of sustaining food production systems and new economies.
+Jodi Koberinski Firstly, Thank You for your respectful dialogue. It is a breath of fresh air. From your perspective, could you help me understand what damage is being done by the GMO canola I might choose to grow on my farm. To myself, my family, the land we manage or to our customers?
+Jodi Koberinski So I google "Think before you eat" to find the website. The first thing I notice in the feature picture is a four tine tillage fork. This, to me, represents the most destructive force to soil health and promotes wind and soil erosion. While I respect the ideals of organic production, what I see is a reversion to tillage for primary weed control in organic production models and that alone gives me pause both from an efficacy and soil erosion standpoint.
There also needs to be strict labeling laws which let people who are buying food and beverages know what is in their beverages so that they can make informed choices and avoid toxins
I'm so proud of my family!!! Congratulations to Garry, Alexei and Benjamin who worked hard on this over the last year.
+Mishkin Berteig As you should be. They did an amazing job!! Hope they keep helping Canadian Ag to tell this side of the story.
+Mishkin Berteig of course with mega bucks funding why not?
+Erin Davis I'm not sure what you mean by "mega bucks funding". Although I don't know exact numbers, I do know that for the amount of time they put into this, they were paid a very very low rate - certainly much lower than they would normally charge for corporate work. My understanding is that 3/4 of the funding for this came from farmers. Also, "mega" usually refers to "million". Their personal take-home from this was much much much much less than a million. Finally, I'm never proud of someone for making money. That's crass. Perhaps that is your value system, although I suspect you simply were being sarcastic (hard to tell in comments) and actually you thought I was proud of them for making money. No - I'm proud of them for a different reason. I'm proud of them for helping an important, largely unheard voice, the voice of the farmers, to be brought into the discourse about food. Do you think that farmers should be silent? Would you censor farmers from speaking about food? Seems unfair to me... surely you didn't mean that.
+Mishkin Berteig $50,000.00 came from tax payers like me. I want a refund.
+Mishkin Berteig
Uh $200,000.00 of tax payers money funded this project. I'm sorry, but it looks like they were had too. And I mean that... I really am sorry that they were paid so little seen as just more people to be fooled.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/government-funds-video-combat-anti-gmo-1.3410802
I do think however, another one should be made! obviously you can't touch on everything in 30 minutes... but I think adding in the effectiveness of cover crops, crop rotations, livestock rotations...
We test our soil and we are putting fences back up around our fields that have no been used for years. We graze our cattle on a covercrop planted right after wheat is taken off. Our fields are never bare! Helping minimize soil erosion, decreasing soil temperatures and improving the bugs within the soil (there are many many more good bugs than bad IF the conditions are right... but this takes time. spraying is not eliminated, but very minimized).
Wait a second.. are you suggesting I trust a farmer to assure me about the biochemistry of my food supply? This documentary seems off to me.
The use of chemicals is a genuine concern but the documentary is undermining these concerns. I think the dependence on technology is adding to this view.
This video is a chance to share our side of the argument when it comes to GM canola. In the past only the anti-Gm were represented. Thanks to the Berteig's and Sask. Canola for giving FARMERS a voice. Well Done!
+John Kowalchuk since the non-GM market for canola was all but obliterated after the introduction of GE canola on a wide scale in the late 1990s, there is hardly a peep from them because we abandoned the crop. Grateful for independent seslf-sustaining enterprises like Highwood Crossing, but they are a rare farm with no GMO in their seed stock.
The market wasn't obliterated for non-gm canola. It has always been sold into the same markets as gm canola. I applaud those farmers as well. Allowing consumers to have an option is great. I was stating that I was glad that it was something other than ANTI-Gmo not Non-Gmo.
+John Kowalchuk do your homework... Jodi is correct
so true
Healthiest? Is it? I know who to listen to! PERMACULTURE IS THE NATURAL WAY!
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i would like to apologieze for all of those hatefull- anti farmer comments. they don't understand what a farm realy is and what we do
Not neccesarily hate,but when waterways,runoff,pesticides,herbicides,Fenceline pushbacks,deforestation,monoculture wipe and spray your feet due to diesease put on your tyvek suit is required,it aint farming.Its sad,but true.Its a corporate agenda and greed from the top.ALL short term thinking in todays world and Fu&*^ the next generation .Being more informed does not mean hate.Chemical induced soil on life support,it aint long term.Can't possibly last.
@@moultonditcher6187 I have one question. have you ever been on a farm in Saskatchewan?
Thank goodness I found someone with some common sense in this comment section.
GREAT to see a CANADIAN made documentary pushing out clear statements that the average Canadian can understand!!
THANK-YOU for making this!!!
We need to speak up ... especially since there's only 2% of us farming, we could be easily bullied by anti-farmers!!
Breeding plants and animals through selection works with natue. Genetically modifying plants and animals goes against natural selection. The DNA of any one organism is vast and genes are linked in a myriad of ways. Shifting selected genes around from one organism to another is just asking for trouble in the long term.
nice gmo propaganda... :)
the problem is that gmo crop herbicide resistance leads to over use of herbicides which are stored in the plant we then eat. We are eating roundup and other herbicides and this is destroying our digestive system...
This is an excellent video that provides a strong dose of reality from the farm in response to the alarmist non-scientific messages that dominate the internet. Well done SaskCanola!
As someone who is both a scientist and passionate about farming, this was an excellent video and you packed a lot into 30 min. If consumers would watch this with an open logical mind, that would be a real bonus.
+William Enright if you are a true scientist, and truly did watch with an open mind I find it an oxymoron . Having watched this myself - open-minded, skeptical, .... a leaked video of Hilary Clinton coaching Monsanto to re-brand using 'drought resistant'... which is interesting as a scientist and passionate about farming you would also know about the geoengineering that is going on... the farmers in our area certainly are aware
+Erin Davis Yes, I spent 11 years in university studying agricultural and animal science, earned three degrees, including a PhD and have 240 publications. And have worked in four countries and visited farms in 40 countries. I found your comment very confusing so not sure what you are saying other than something conspiratorial involving Hilary Clinton and Monsanto? Please share evidence.
+William Enright It is impossible to have an open mind when people are actually lying to you....
+Erin Davis geoengineering? oxymoron? I think you should defer to the PhD guy who knows words 'n stuff.
+commodore256 All the info you mention re Monsanto and patents is untrue. The fact is that lots of companies have patents on lots of things. Monsanto has sued very few farmers and never for accidentally having some of their seeds or GMO plants. They only sue farmers that deliberately plant their seeds without contracts, etc. Any monies ever won have been given to charity. Please don't believe all the crap you read on the Internet.
I’m only here because my teacher assigned this
@Kelly me too and its due in an hour
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same here
This is good stuff to know
same
Shooting License To Farm was to see into the heart of agriculture as being the cornerstone of civilization. Thanks to the great hearts we interviewed.
Just finished watching the film and it's great. The perspective of the farmer is often not easily accessible to the consumer. The Canadian farmer's voice is definitely not heard enough. By and large farmers are not out to push any agenda. I've observed that they are usually humble and silent but most care deeply for the land and environment and take pride in the service they provide for humanity. The film is a great catalyst for discussion. It informs the consumer (including me) and promotes a deeper awareness of the science behind modern farming. It definitely facilitates a more open dialogue between the farmer and consumer and outlines how each has responsibilities. I think for lifetime farmers like my dad it is a very empowering film.
I would just like to know this. In America we have created such an expensive way of farming that a young person that wants to get into farming simply cannot afford the capital to start one. The U.S.D.A. did a study about 5 years ago showing the average age of the American farmer was 60 years old. The children of most farmers don't want anything to do with farming because they have watched the hardships and struggle of there parents. So I ask how long will this big agg farm model actually work. With young people who want to farm not being able to afford 1,000s of acres and a few million dollars in equipment and you have the children of farmers growing more and more restless of the struggle how long will these 60 year old farmer be able to keep going?
Not to be a stickler but how long does it actually take before a big agg farm makes money when you have millions invested in land and equipment? Seems like a pretty sheer slope of debt if you ask me.
I farm 1/3 acre of all natural chemical free crops for local restaurant's and people in my community. I am able to net almost 100k per year while only using hand tools. I have no tractor and don't want one. I would put my cost to profit per sqft of land ratio up against any big agg farm and beat them every time. BIG AGG IS NOT PROFITABLE TO THE FARMER, IT IS ONLY PROFITABLE TO THOSE SUPPLYING THE FARMERS!
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We need something like this related to animal agriculture. I am so tired of hearing people promote veganism and how horrible farmers are to their animals when that is ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Again, really well done. PROUD to be an agriculture grad and passionate advocate!!!
Well, most animal farms in the US are factory farms. Just saying.
+Wildcat Jackie please see vimeo.com/106837795
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Of course they don't starve. However, they are crowded, put into gestation crates, and other cruel, cost-effective practices. Pigs getting tails cut off at birth, castrated without pain killers.
These kinds of practices are common in the US.
Jodi Koberinski Thanks for sharing. This, too, happens on conventional farms, including my own family operation.
+Diana, the Inorganic Vegan I assume you have some sort of reputable and legitimate evidence to support these wild claims to prove you aren't just making assumptions or making shit up.
Every Saskatchewan Ag advocate out there, stand up for your right. Don’t be afraid. Do what you love
So this is a PRO GMO PRO synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and against organic. I am an organic farmer and it works for me
Agribusiness is an activity risking for the farmers, but they have bet for their own benefit and logically generate food for humanity. Of course, agriculture currently needs scientific and economic advances to deal with the higher challenge of our civilization, producing food with low environmental costs and high nutritional value under extreme conditions. This is our mission.
Stopped watching at 45 seconds - more environmentally sound methods. Nope
SHARING EVERYWHERE!! This is SO important!! Very well done!!
I wanted to be a farmer once , but then I realized that I was lazy .
There needs to be a way created to make structured democratic discussion of these issues possible and videos like this are helpful.
Something that was not mentioned and that I've never heard in videos promoting Plant Breeding to feed the growing population of a hungry planet (apologies to Hans Rosling, Don't Panic!) is that agricultural production and plant breeding also involve the production of products that are not for human food consumption. In Canada and the U.S.A., there are crops like cotton, flax, aloe vera etc. that are not grown primarily for human food consumption (yes, flax seeds can be eaten by humans but people don't eat their linen or money). There are also crops that are grown indirectly for human consumption to feed to livestock, but field maize, in particular, is also grown as an industrial starch feedstock for a very large number of products humans don't eat at all. It's interesting to compare maize production in Canada and the U.S.A. with maize production in Africa where the percentage of the maize crop grown for direct human consumption is the complete opposite.
The word 'farmer' carries a lot of historical baggage related to human food production. Maybe 'agricultural producer' is too generic because one does not think of the production of trees, landscape plants and flowers as agricultural production. (Yes, there are edible flowers but don't eat the Christmas poinsettas in the greenhouse). I'm not sure showing images of 'farmer's markets' really helps. It reinforces old ideas. I know of Canadian families that made a living with market gardens and greenhouse production on less than 40 acres/16 ha. So agricultural producer needs to include them as well as family farms of thousands of acres (I won't mention Brazil) and maybe vertical farms too.
I've seen Canadian agricultural producers struggling with herbicide resistant weeds even to the point of smuggling illegal, unregistered herbicides into Canada from the U.S.A. to control them as a last resort. I've seen a field maize producer almost never have to use a pesticide while a friend growing sweet corn for a grocery store chain felt obligated to apply a pesticide several times to ensure a high quality product. I know for a fact that agricultural producers struggle with the issues of GMO's, use of chemicals and the environment and are often caught in the middle of the controversies trying to do what is right.
People had a good laugh when the Prime Minister of Canada was rumoured as saying that 'We don't need the U.S.A., we have grocery stores." but it brings home the point that the production of some human food products eaten in Canada often takes place in relatively small regions outside of Canada. I was amazed once, to find out that a Canadian company was sourcing peanuts from China rather than from some part of Canada or the U.S.A. The raisins were coming from Turkey. In the U.S.A., Green Giant grows all its sweet corn in one state. In Canada, I've never seen or heard of very large vegetable production fields (apart from potatoes). I won't mention Brazil or soybean and coffee production but there are lots of issues there.
I don’t hear people saying that farmers cannot use modern agricultural equipment. I hear them saying to not put chemicals on food crops and to have diversity and to have perennial agriculture that is sustainable and regenerative and economically viable
We urban foodies actually understand Modern agriculture quite well. We are often times highly educated and well informed. Stop talking down to us
It's great to see all the discussion! All comments are welcome, both supporting and opposing the content of the video.
Just because the correlation cannot be absolutely proved as causation does not mean that nobody has been harmed by genetically modified foods. They absolutely have because those foods have been covered in toxic pesticides. I’m a former pesticide applicator and I understand these things.
Silly farmers, scientists, and other experts...don't you know that you'll never know as much as a blogger who spends about fifteen minutes on Google looking for that needle in the haystack that confirms their bias?
All kidding aside, what an excellent presentation! I'd love to see a full feature!
For anyone with the intellectual integrity to consider the other side of this argument, please read Joel Salatins, Folks this ain't normal.
also mark shepards book restoration AG.
we farm hard and do care. #SASKCANOLA #FARMERS aRE THE BEST
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Be loud, Be strong, Be brave farmers
Genetically modified crops are about control and preventing Farmers from being able to harvest their own seed and replant their crops and is about making them completely dependent on buying crops every single year from a seed dealer. And buying the chemicals to use to kill the weeds
Take that everyone that hates us. We have true proof. Bravo whoever made this video. It is amazing. We need to stand up for what is right.
Lol, Except what you think is right is actually wrong! Stop poisoning the people!
Song Girl, I am not. I believe in what I say. I have a lot of people who will back me up. I am an agriculture advocate, who will not back down. I won’t stop until I die. AND I AM 13!!!! I am a born and raised Saskatchewan farm boy. If you want to live your life in fear thinking farmers are trying to kill you, so be it. But me and millions of people won’t change our minds. If you want to see some real knowledge, go to @millenialfarmer ‘s channel.
Sorry guy, but there are better ways to farm. The focus should be healthy people, healthy animals, healthy soil, working with and not against nature.
Song Girl, I’d like to see you try to do that with 5200 acres (area=5200 football fields). That is a normal sized farm. But a few of my friends farm from 10,000 to 42,000 acres. P.S do you even live on a farm. Or do you live in a city.
Song Girl, I think I am more educated on this by living in a grain farm my entire life. My family has been farming for 93 years
I enjoyed this documentary a lot, thanks for publishing it and making it free. (As somebody who has no farming experience, it was still easy to understand)
:D nice propaganda
I beg to differ! People absolutely do understand risk. We are not stupid! The major concern is not that genetically modified organism crops are carcinogenic because of them being genetically modified… It is the cocktail of carcinogenic chemicals being applied to those crops because of that genetic modification that is the concern
Great Job!!! we need more of this, not only to tell our story to our eater customers, but to encourage those in the industry to stand up and start their own conversations. Fantastic, looking forward to more. Hopefully we can pull off something similar in Ontario.
Anybody who avoids Greens is doing them self a great service because grades are not digestible. Secondarily, anybody trying to avoid pesticide infused fruits and vegetables is also doing them self a great favor by reducing and minimizing toxins being introduced into the body.
Excellent.
I’m sure this it a complete coincidence but these videos just happened to start popping up on you tube at the same time dicamba was about to hit the market. 🤔
Above and beyond the whole safety question..
The consumer pays for the product.. They should have a right to say, No thanks, I would prefer to buy the other (natural) one.
One farmer said if he had to back to farming the way it was 50 years ago, he wouldn't farm... umm, Wheat, barley and oats are not GMO crops... yet enough is grown that we are all still eating bread and drinking beer. (I really do not agree with the spraying of finishing wheat crops, but that is a discussion for another thread.)
Back to GMO's ... If there is no market for it... well, then I guess farmers can either plant what is wanted by the consumer or... maybe they can sell it oversea. Oh wait.. .. more and more countries are saying No to GMO's overseas.. same reason, I guess.. No one wants to purchase them.
Proper rotational regenerative holistic grazing management can capture a lot more Carbon into the soil than any kind of monocrop chemical dependent industrial tillage-based annual crop agriculture ever will
I love farming and salute to all farmers out there...
i love lean
I’m a fourth generation farmer. Conventional, but want to move to organic. The conventional farming is bad for our rural communities. The cost of inputs are so high, and every year we have to get more toxic. For a small farm to remain I think the only option is to go organic, build up soil health. I’m tired of writing checks to chemical companies.
I support farmers! We need to hear more farmers and prevent the anti-science activists from harming our environment and food supply.
The land needs rest. That’s why in the wild, animals come in and grays and then leave until the next year. Continuous use exhausts the land. Crop rotation is necessary
I love that when you talked about megacompanies competing to monopolize the seed industry, you showed Bayer and not Monsanto.
People don't know this, but Monsanto is actually the second largest, not largest, seller of GM seeds (Du Pont is the largest), and yet none of the criticis can name Bayer or the other companies with similar market share.
+Trepur349 we have a "Big 6" Seed/ chemical cartel. Syngenta is being eyed by Monsanto (they did this a couple decades ago to beat a bad rap on PCBs, now they want a name change, or well, you know, to gobble up a competitor) and Dupont and Dow are in the final stages of their two-headed monster merger... And YES taking the conversation more broadly to the industry is a good thing, thanks for that .... companies do what they do because we allow it with lax regulation on chemical and biotech firms. Where it gets dicey is WHY the rules allow it. A lot of money and energy goes into shaping that environment in favour of the multinationals
+Jodi Koberinski we can argue the business and politics of this matter all day long but any outcome can't deny the benefits and the NEED of this technology. Even if one company monopolizes a hiv vaccine, we should eliminate the company not the vaccine.
Bayer is Monsanto. I get all of my seed and chem from bayer. It is quite good. It is easy to grow and Handel. We are getting more from less. And the chemical is way better and safer then it was a few years ago. And it is also better than tillage. For a 50lb canola bag is around $850. That bag contains thousands of seeds. And each seed now can produce hundreds of more seeds. The chemical helps the seeds get more nutrients by killing weeds, and not effecting the canola plant. That is my point of view.
@@TheOneSaskatchewanFarmBoy yeah funnily enough Bayer and Monsanto merged a couple years ago. But a the time of this videos (and my comments) creation, well that hadn't happened yet
I love the challenges despite what I love farming
The reality is that we have too many people on the planet and if everybody lived like somebody from North America, we would need seven planets
GMO is fine, but when you alter the plant just so it can withstand round up. That's messed up!! And who owns farming... Oil/chemical companies.
My teacher posted this for a school assignment
Who funded this documentary? There are no notes for this video.
i think sask canols. thank god for them. it was an amazing doc for the truth that we face
Actually, I’m only three minutes 58 seconds into this and the concerns of people all around the world are scientifically-based and are accurate. So far this “documentary” is sounding like some kind of agribusiness apologist propaganda film
YES!
canola oil sponsored
+Andrea Suárez
Really? How do I become canola oil sponsored? Sounds like a really good deal. I'm imagining big fat cheques signed from "canola oil", and obviously unlimited canola oil for life.
So what’s wrong about sask canola making this video. P.S guess what you grease you pan with, or what your margarine is made out of. Canola oil
Sharing. I feel my mind has been opened from being very close-minded and ignorant for far too long regarding the Canadian farming industry.
Official Documentary?!?!? Says who??
nice gmo propaganda... :)
Tillage is not necessary and no tail should replace tillage or minimum till
nice gmo propaganda... :)
That is EXACTLY what I thouhgt. If this 60 minute add wasn't funded by some GMO lobbiest id shit
Large corporate agriculture aren't farmers....they are heavy equipment operators...
just label it and let the consumer decide.
Commercial farmers are the absolute least objective people you could ask, save Monsanto. They have a clear and substantial personal interest in defending the reputation of their crops. All of Europe can survive without GMOs, so can North America.
Electric cars are made from all kinds of very sustainably harvested minerals and metals and materials. The fact that they don’t pollute fossil fuel emissions from the tail pipe does not mean that they are environmentally sustainable
We the public are not consumers. We are human beings. We are not stupid or foolish or ignorant and farming is not at all safe.
The problem is that those that promote GMO want to stuff it down your throat whether you object to it or not. Honest labeling, allowing freedom of choice and free market will give the public the ability to make educated decisions about the products they consume.
Corporate mono farms are the best and only way to feed the populace, granted. But mono cropping is the biggest cause of our loss of top soil, a true natural resource, throughout the world.
I don’t know how it is in Canada, but if it’s anything like the United States, and I suspect it is, the same regulators who are regulating the corporations, are also having a conflict of interest because they are funded by those same institutions
All I know is I bought an organic melon at a local farm and it was ten times better than the one I bought at the local supermarket. I can't disagree that golden rice could be a health benefit, if it is given to the farmers of the countries in need free of charge with no strings attached. Or will the companies want to gain a profit.
What the dont tell you is golden rice was a dishonest PR stunt from its inception, its nutrient stats were fudged and it's proved a failure. That hasn't stopped the propagandists from spinning the narrative and occluding the facts in their 'strategic communications' most radical opposition to Golden rice and GMOs/chemical agriculture in general comes from the poor people that are supposedly benefiting from this(see the 200,000,000 + peasants, among other rural people including family farmers in the global North that represented by the organization la via campesina)
The truth is chemical agriculture and seed biotechnology has halved the vitamins and minerals in agricultural produce across the board since the 1950s. GMOs are about greed, simple as. the right to save open pollinated seed on farm is essential.
If Farmers will not be honest about the negative impacts they are having on food and the environment, they will be subject to continued regulations.
very nice documentary, covering every aspect.
great film. I agree farmers need to engage customers and show them and tell them before an uneducated judgement is made.
after watching this i still want organic my step dad was a farmer i had a chance too be around farmers my step dad realey knew how too take bad soil and make it great organicaly and encorage all bees in his garden some bees eat bugs and encurage other small creaters like frogs and snakes in it using human hair too keep some animals out naturally and knew what too do too save plants from a bad frost this information is lost and is not tought in schools alot of farms are gone in my area you have too go too vermont if you want too see farms an yes i live in ny..bring back the family farmer..
The concerns of people being referred to as consumers, is actually based in science
Acutely, the farmers created healthy benefits for the people and society in that country. However, farmers also are a important structure for expanding and demand of the economy growth.
There is the farm bureau in the United States and they have lobbyist to go to Washington DC and pretty much any Republican in the United States is going to be pushing for agriculture industry issues in one way or another. Regulations are necessary when you have people negatively impacting other people with their bad business practices.
Next Stop, Soylent Green.
This is the greatest documentary I ve watched in a long time. Thank you.
nice gmo propaganda... :)
@@papaszem44 it is not proerganta. it is just true fact.
The concerns raised after the introduction of the romantic ideal segment being shown on the screen came up, are perfectly real and legitimate concerns based in what is actually happening
Hmmmm I'm guessing this is funded by Bayer.. 👎
Continuous cropping can happen with cover crops and pasture and alfalfa and does not need to be continuous corn on corn or soy beans on soybeans or wheat on wheat. We need perennial agriculture not annual crops
It often times is actually the case that small scale Farmers to have the ability to make more sustainable choices and therefore produce higher quality food that has less of a negative impact on the land for its production then do those industrial scale farmers
Plant hybridization and genetic modification are not the same. When the video stated they were at 6:54 in, I stopped watching. You won't get any points in your favour for this video from anybody who knows the difference and it's easily researched.
+Gary Owens Please point to a reference that you feels clearly explains this difference.
+Gary Owens: You're right - they're not 100% the same; but they stem from the same idea, just different methodology. And when attempting to explain the concept simply, this is potentially the most straightforward way about explaining it.
Doesn't hurt for people that do recognize the distinctions to point them out though, and ask further questions. This starts a dialog about it, and the only way to move forward is with discussion on the topic.
Never stop asking questions.
+MissMme I did not say sweet potatoes were harmful. I just made the point that human involvement in these GMOs is not a bad thing. If you are full supporter of the insulin GMO Humilin, what is it about these crop GMOs that have you questioning their safety? I'm not here to attack you I am just trying to understand how you can support one yet be weary of another and not believe the studies and informative backing that stuff. There was another point addressed in the video that you did not list. By you only remembering the GMO talk and not even which crop we were talking about leaves me to believe you did not watch the video with an open mind. You have your beliefs which I understand. My wish as a farmer who grows GMO crops is that you would listen to what we are saying and not right away dismiss our facts as just backing big ag. We just backing the technology we use.
+MissMme Horizontal gene transfer, which you refer to as GM, absolutely does happen in nature, and we are discovering it is more common than previously believed. You are falling for the naturalistic fallacy referred to in the documentary - natural doesn't necessarily mean better or safer.
+MissMme "The easiest one to point out is that hybridization requires the plants to be genetically similar"
Wrong. There are plenty of interspecies hybrids we've made. Triticale is the perfect example. It's a hybrid of wheat and rye, which are in completely different genus. The hybrid was made by using colchicine to induce polyploidy so the hybrid would be viable.
has anyone tested this canola oil for glyphosate content???
Chemicals should be the last tool used when no other tool has succeeded and Farms need to be smaller and the number of crops grown needs to be diapers instead of a monoculture and there needs to be a variety of animals grown so that the entire farm can be a closed system. It needs to be at a scale so that it is not polluting through sound or smell or manure or runoff and it needs to be a regenerative so that chemicals and fertilizers and soil or not running into streams and causing algae blooms And dead zones in lakes and streams and oceans
Genetically modified organisms crops use more pesticides not less
First you make healthy food than you figure out how to make it more efficient or how to improve your profit not the other way round. Family owned is not what people are concerned about it is the way big farms are operating these days. When it comes to our food it's not ok just to do your best. If your best is not good enough than maybe you should be doing something else. If using pesticides is doing your best then that's not good enough. I like how the one girl says that their farm is a family farm. Yes that's true like Walmart it's also a family store. The problem is farms trying to cut down on cost so they can make more money. It's a good business practice but doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. What this Video says is that the consumer is stupid and can't tell between rumors and facts and that's why there is misconception about farming practices so great job. So everyone that is saying bad things about farming is just trying to make a living and is that so different than what you are doing since they are just doing their best? What about admitting that the big farming community has gone down the wrong path and will work on improving it. People would have more respect for you than this. Thanks
Looked up “sustainable agriculture documentary” and was personally disgusted that this was the first video listed. Monoculture is not sustainable, not safe, and economically inefficient. This is not how we feed the world or treat our environment. This “Documentary” is more like a pity plea from a large corporation whose been losing money as organic food consumption jumped to 5% this year out of total consumed foods, because people are finding out results from long term studies that have found health concerns from these GM and BT plants. From a perspective of the scientific method, i think we should be discrediting the studies of those who seek to benefit from GM crops and not from organizations seeking to gain information for public health and safety. There’s a reason the EU has banned GM foods, and it’s not because of “fear mongering”.
Again, it is not the plants themselves that are the concern, but rather the toxic pesticides that are applied to the plants
Actually, while farmers are the first ones affected, they do not generally get involved in anything that restricts them from using chemicals.
If a Tesla catches on fire more than once, regulators are going to scrutinize the company and the company is going to have to prevent that from happening.
Some of the content was a reasonable call for not putting all farmers in one basket, but by the 20 minute mark I had heard just one too many unsubstantiated claims. If you want to get a different message across a more powerful approach might be to engage in some meaningful dialogue between respected leaders in the different fields - natural/organic, small-scale intensive and RegenAg in the same room with the promoters of chemical ag.
The vertically integrated farming industrial complex makes money for bankers and real estate agents and chemical and fertilizer companies and gas companies and equipment manufacturers and the farmer keeps very little of what they make
What about the nutritional value of the gmo's
Awesome, spoke the facts.
One must print a copy of the photos of Board of Directors from the Saskatchewan Development Commission, watch the video. Match each one of them in the video only depicting themselves as farmers, forgetting to mention their ties to one board. Really? You do not represent me as a Canadian Farmer. What a PR failure when people connect the dots.
+Berry "Berryfarmer" Farmer I am a farmer and feel they represent me but I am a conventional grain farmer. If your name does in fact mean you really are a Berry farmer then you're right it would not represent you. The fact is that it's not intended to represent Berry farmers. It is meant to represent conventional grain farmers and the other side to the debate over GMOs and conventional farmers using pesticides.
+Nicole Bohun a wee bit snarky are we? This documentary doesn't represent me as a farmer either. Sure am glad. Selling chemical-free, certified non-GMO produce is my bread and butter. That's what the consumer wants, that's what I grow. Obviously you need to take business 101. "The customer is always right" didn't you know. Who cares how safe you think your chemical covered grain is. That really doesn't matter. It's the consumer who buys your grain. They are the ones with the money and you want their money don't you? You should be growing what they want, because regardless about how much you think you are right, you're wrong. The customer is always right. And trying to convince them otherwise, will just piss them off. And if you really want to let this corporate PR scram trick you into trying to push your opinions on consumers, you're just going to push them away and into my loving embrace. I'll take their money for you, obviously you don't want it that bad.
I grow produce, not grain. Sustainably too. I use local inputs; No chemicals, zero. My soil is so healthy and full of microbes, the pests can't touch my plants because they are so healthy. That also means I don't have to worry about disease or fungus either. In between my rows I grow cover crops; they are there full of predatory insects that take care of the pests who do decide to venture into the farm. The cover crops increase water infiltration, water retention and they fix nitrogen. So I get free fertilizer and have to water less and I get better yields. I rotate my crops, especially my nightshades, to reduce my risks of disease.
I pull my weeds by hand because I take pleasure in hard work and I would feel lazy grabbing the spray can and jug of weed killer. I use heirloom seeds and allow mother nature's natural mutations to shape the genetics of my plants, for she really knows best. Because I do small-scale intensive growing, I can produce significantly more yield per acre with much less carbon inputs, less water, and no chemicals required. Per acre, I can gross up to $144K annual revenue, with substantially lower overhead and equipment costs than a conventional farm. I have no chemical costs whatsoever and my seed bill gets cheaper by the season as we save more seeds every season.
I guess what I am trying to say here is this. This documentary is a joke. We don't need GMOs to feed the planet. Industrial Ag is destroying our land and our pollinators and it's just not working. Monsanto, Bayer, Dupont; all these companies want to control the food supply. That's why they want to control the seeds. That's why they sue farmers who's saved his seeds for decades until his seeds get contaminated by a neighbour's GMO crop. Monsanto sues those farmers for stealing their patented seeds. And now these big biotech companies are trying to convince farmers to help them confuse consumers so that they can continue to monopolize our food production. Shady business. You can call me a conspiracy theorist all you want. All I know is, I can grow way more food per acre than any GMO farmers ever could, with less fossil fuel, no chemicals, healthier soil, less water and have less environmental impact and be 100% sustainable. I can also say that my produce will be more nutrient dense, have more minerals and ultimately be healthier for the human body. At my market stand I can confidently tell people their produce is chemical-free; I am not trying to explain to them that I used a perfectly safe amount of chemicals on their food and not to worry. I can't believe you don't see the problem with this propaganda. sigh.
+Nicole Bohun I would also like to add, that at 16:14 all the way up to 16:25 there are only camera shots of berries (raspberries and blueberries) and other fruits and produce. So if this documentary is meant to represent conventional grain farmers, and not intended to represent Berry farmers - as you so snarkily stated above - why pray tell do they have visual images of other produce that is typically not GMO? And more precisely, if this video is not meant to represent berry farmers in any way, why would they put camera shots of berries in a farmers' market then? Did you even watch the documentary? Seems to me like distraction tactics in a biased PR scam video. Wake up and try not to eat the peed in corn flakes this time.
+Morpheous666 I was not snarky in any way unlike you. I congratulate you on your 144K in revenue but I will stick to my 1.5million in revenue. You saying that your plants never get diseases and pests is a blatant lie. All plants experience disease but not all plants succumb to it showing drastic negatives. It depends on the severity of the disease infection and pressure of disease and the plants immunity. I'm glad you have beneficial pests to help but there are always escapes. If not you are openly admitting that your beneficial pests kill more predator pests than the insecticides we use lowering the level of biodiversity. And you can thank my plant science degree for this information. I also farm next many organic producers and they use biological chemicals some of which have a far greater toxicity than the synthetic chemicals we use and they will openly admit to that. One step further yes there were Berry trees in that part but listen to what is said in it. The trees weren't in it to say hey Berry farmers this is directed at you. They were just a fill in to get our point across that we were making at that time. You are also right the customer is always right. I agree 100%. That is why we are growing GMO canola as there is a huge demand for the heart healthy oil that is made from it. One step further customers want to hear from the farmers who produce the products they buy. They want to hear what we do, why we do it and if our ways are safe. That is what we and the over 2000 independent studies including one 29 year review of animal feeding done by Allison Van Enemeen and this video are doing. We are saying, that yes GMOs are safe for human consumption, animal consumption, and are environmentally sustainable. So we are listening to consumers and giving them the answers they are requesting from us. You say you produce more product per acre than any GMO crops well at 66 bushels an acre our GMO canola produces 726 Litres of canola oil as 1bushel produces 11litres. Please take your snarky comments and grade 2 language of being so better on everything and having no problems at all somewhere else. All I was saying is that this video was not intended to represent or be a voice for organic or vegetable or Berry farmers. You have your own voice. This is just a voice for conventional farmers who grow GMOs and use pesticides. End of story.
+Nicole Bohun thank you for your comments, we are all very lucky that we do have the ability to publish to society in general because of social media avenues and we must respect that and value it. I am more then just a berry farmer with 40 plus years as being a conventional farmer, graduated from the University of Guelph over 25 years ago, been involved in about 75 commercial valued crops as a producer in a high dollar per acre or per square foot investment. I grew up originally on an intensified hog operation (currently termed by those who want to demonize Animal Husbandry with a term like factory prefix the word farm)I have a Valid Pesticide License and also produce several crops with a step beyond Organic product with a pesticide free approach.I am sensitive to concerns of fellow farmers of what consumer perception is of exactly what is done to produce something they intend on ingesting. As a farmer one of problems that I continue to see within supply chain of food is a believe that the minimal amount of information that needs or should be required to be provided those who are intending to make a choice of what they ingest a transparent situation. As a farmer I understand that for a significant amount of the past century farmers utilized many plant protection products that eventually were deemed by the scientific community as being not acceptable for the consequences that became known thru time or further studies i.e. (DDT), this history of farmers being the distributors of those creating crop inputs thru use or required use of chemical to be profitable concerns me. The continued behaviour patterns of farmers as individuals to trust their suppliers at face value because it will increase their productivity is a concern for me. The elasticity of supply and demand determines price, the point of being able to feed the human race continues to be thrown on the table by every Biotech corporation or farmer who sees all reason to support them, whether as a need for anything that they strategically think would counter acceptable common practices. The shift in the societies' opinion of acceptable practices for food production is of concern to me as a farmer, I cannot ignore it for whatever reason it has occurred. I am not pro GMO or anti GMO and that I want to make very clear in relation to my opinions on the documentary License to Farm, I am pro transparency and ethics especially when communicating to someone who you wish to have purchase anything from you. If the SaskCanola Board of Directors wanted to in this doc, they could have put the prefix of ;Canola before each time the word farmer was mentioned or Grain or if those were too specific put Prairie in front of farmers I would be less focused on the slights of misrepresentations when they have made the exact basis for them needing to create this documentary, but they do not speak on behalf of all Canadian famers. I will leave you with this, within hours of me communicating the concerns of the Board of Directors of the SaskCanola in the documentary on twitter I was contacted by the PR of Monsanto Canada, we had a lengthy discussion yesterday on a telephone call that was respectful and positive I believe from both sides. My personal believe is that all farmers must stop the continual defense of their practices and listen to the demand they believe will suit their future as farmers and evolve as quickly as they can, if they are handcuffed to technology because of controls of inputs by their suppliers, they must turn to the same society to ask for help in providing them every law that affords a food system the least amount of control in the hands of any one entity. If the price of a loaf of bread goes to $10.00 or an dozen eggs goes to $15.00 it would evolve out of how society as a whole wanted changes to farming practices observed that they demanded whether now or in the future. If those who want cheap food dictate or trump every want for a more transparent food system then we are defeated as farmers via price as always. And if it was about feeding the planet then during the past two decades we should have not seen one human soul lost to starvation if all this technology was for the benefit of mankind. PERIOD!
This is the most inspirational videos ever
2% why..because big ag has control and they rub out the small farmer that can't afford to fight. Regulate then use environment for there fights. In California a smelt won over food.