manipulated seed and the things that grow there from without realizing that they're not being tested it is a myth that there is in fact testing from condensed material but yet were and were forbidden so far to have on our labels of foods exactly how it was grown so that we can make an informed choice we know that over ninety percent of people  for that and this is a way that monsanto is spreading its power not just throughout colombia but through mexico central america south america africa and asia they are expanding their markets they are hurting family farm it made awareness and education of genetically modified organisms and how they operate in our food supply that most important we think it is the single greatest threat to our soil our food supply and ultimately the health of everyone not just americans but everyone on the planet unlike hybridisation genetically modified organisms actually employ a method of inserting artificially genes from one species into another to create desirable characteristics or traits a plant a vegetable that doesn't rot for instance or that has automatic genetic markers that will make it resistant to certain pesticides the one of the big problems is this massive experiment is untested we do not know the long term effects and certain biotech companies have taken the technology and used it without without really the public's consent or even awareness we would have settled at one time just for those things to be labeled so that we could know what we wanted to eat or what we chose to eat what we didn't we don't even have that choice they are purposely hiding the information from us i suspect because they know no one would eat that food if they knew where it came from so studies coming from japan and russia indicate that not only is an sect live a radically changed and damaged by genetically modified food but also the intestinal lining of the human body there are a number of other associated suspected links like loss of fertility and these are serious questions that should be studied before they're unleashed on the population another big concern of ours is for crops like corn that are pollinated by wind and carried by birds that even a pristine organic field can be infected with genetically modified pollen from down the road so and a farmer who has devoted their crops to organic sustainable agriculture methods are are not even able to claim that that is and even true specifically with the pollinating crops on it that way they 're not for a good for you i know because they've done studies that show that it's affecting animals that eat g m o foods genetically modified food and i think we should have a choice on deciding what what we are eating because we right now we can't tell what we're eating because we don't know what's in our foods they don't tell us and so the only thing you need to do what you have to do is to eat organic in order to get away from it so i that's what i do myself is it's use organic foods but i really would like to know and i think it's everyone should be able to know what's in there fo a today i am excited it's a first time i've ever been in the parade i've been an observer before i used to live in fremont but first time in the parade and so i have an ensemble that we're doing it's called g m o toxic  trespass and it's a bunch of us are from volunteers for our to chew the labeling of genetically engineered foods here in washington and food and water watch and then various other volunteers that we've reached out to are joining us we have about twenty people in our ensemble today and so we're going to be spreading the message about g m o's in today's parade we took some of the props in costume that we created for the march against and we incorporated in took our wording off of some things and so basically what we're going to do is we have a mother earth float we have be these we have butterflies and then we also have some  bio hazard sprayers toxic sprayers of chemicals in a round up bottle and some mad scientists and so we have a giant genetically engineered corn in we have some oregon a wheat so we're go be displaying that in interacting with the chemicals in the bees in the butterflies will feel sick but as it gets closer to the mother earth will start to feel better and will help farmers in a beekeeper to help protect the the planet earth and be it protector so that's kind of how we're going to try to communicate today well the big thing is labeling obviously it's the it's the important first step to get educate people about genetically engineered foods because most people have been in the dark about what's in their food in awareness is the only thing to bring it to lie labeling is a big part of that over sixty four other countries something like that label now with  washington this being on the ballot it gives us a good time to be one of the first states in the country to go for labeling because soon it'll be across our country but we have to sometimes do it state by state and so that's why we're here today you know there's a lot of information coming out about g m o o's in related to health problems everything from digestive issues cancer infertility parkinson's disease even though the big companies deny that and they're safe but they're responsible for their own testing and until there is independent long term testing this these type of products should not be on the market until that happens because we are finding the there's a lot of health problems associated with this that the companies don't want you to know it feels just like tobacco science they told us it was good and safe their doctors advertising for well i think the same thing's going to happen with the g m most revolving door between these companies in our government and so they're not regulated i mean they're the ones writing the regulation they don't want us to know really what's going on it's about profit profit over everything including safety safety food safety environmental safety nobody talks about also what this stuff is doing to our environment pesticides herbicides all of increase with the usagi a most it's not going away they say again that it's luckily we know what they did in california so we have a jump start we know what the arguments are we know how to fight those arguments we've also our group and several other groups have been on the ground running with this issue in educating people since january and the opposition is not even started yet they've already started getting my a lot of money but it's all coming from the big corporations not there is the money that's come against this issue is coming from the companies not from individuals the money that comes from our initiative to pass g g m o labeling is coming from individuals in some some businesses like p c c and places like that but mostly it's coming from grassroots folks like us and we're out we're the ones that are spreading the word i mean that's what it's going to take spreading the word oh vote yes on five to two absolutely  this is so important we have to stop them we have to educate people labeling is an important first step so vote yes on five to two in november parade here i have no credibility you shouldn't take me seriously at all but you should do the research yourself and find out why it's important to label g e food there are a lot of health concerns a lot of scientific studies you could look at a lot that are you against each other there are a lot of talking heads but really you should find out for yourself first thing you should do is read the legislation for a five twenty two it's really simple really easy to read it's really in really plain english i'm not a lawyer a geneticist and i had no problem with this or check that out and vote yes on i five twenty two in november the most never ever regulated food you've ever eaten is all your genetically engineered food the f d a decided that because there is no substantive difference between genetically engineered foods and regularly commercially prepared foods that they don't need to regulate it so what the instead of requiring a substantial health studies around engineered food they said well just make sure it's safe so it's pretty much the responsibility of the bioengineering industry to do its own safety studies the f d a zone scientists said that the studies they did do were versus the control group showed massive cases of inflammation in their digestive system they showed problems with their filter organs their kidney and their liver so they're just another problem with the study issue is in the united states because monsanto owns the patent on their genetically engineered seed it's a changed syngenta encarta gill to a lesser extent they actually will not allow you to do studies health studies on rats or on people because they own the pat on the seeds so in order to perform a health study on genetically engineered food you need to get clearance from the patent owners so it's a huge it's a huge issue so when the f d a is on scientists said these studies weren't long enough once they did more long term studies which show probably more significant filter organ damage they decided you know they told the f d a you need to do some more stringent studies more independent study because those again those studies were done by the corporation that are producing engineer genetically engineered food so whether or not you can trust that i mean it's up to you to decide but is the same company that brought you agent orange said it was safe same company that brought you d d t and said it was safe  i don't know how you can have a lot of faith in that kind of a for profit industry if your i read luckily we have a great public school system and i learned how to read and put my knowledge to work and started reading oh yes on five twenty two mother nature put it here originally just as it should be and we shouldn't be messing with her that's pretty simple i don't know how much explanation that needs really about the g salmon this morning i always think it's really funny when i say well not funny but sad and a real eye opener when you see an ad that says him g e salmon for human consumption is that as we have to put for human consumption after our food like that kind of tell us something it's an interesting let's round that monsanto it was pretty good felt pretty good to me i was just dancing down the street playing guitars and you have to ask the crowd i'm the wrong person ask what am i wearing i am wearing a corn suit because monsanto makes mutant corn that gives you pesticide genes in your stomach it interferes with your digestion and causes cancer in rats and that's why we're doing this we're trying to make people aware so o labeling comes to pass so when you go into the store not knowing what's in the food you're buying you will know that it will be marked contains g m o ingredients and then you cannot buy that food and there will be it will reward farmers who most out front about it to have them feel pressure from consumers which they do not feel at all right now so that's why did we did this to try to bring awareness to the people of bainbridge island about g m o labeling and of course washington state has  initiative coming up for them to vote on on that very subject g m o so yeah well you know we the refusers are a health freedom band and we have a lot of songs about pharmaceutical companies and things like that i'd always avoided g m o and i started looking into it over the last three to six months i started looking a lot more closely at the science and actually what was what was involved and so you know the idea of having a eating any a food that contains genes th make pesticides is just wrong you know i mean people you know you turn your back you want to let me ask you do you want to turn your body into a pesticide factory i don't i certainly don't want to turn my body into a pesticide factory i want to avoid that kind of stuff you know i mean we we buy local you know from farmers markets and local growers as much as possible so so i'd say like my learning curve really accelerated in the last three months and i wrote this song let's round up monsanto to try to inspire people of course seeds from your own crop you have to lease the season get new seeds from monsanto every year and the only thing they seem to be good for is piling loads of chemicals on that seems to be the point of herbicide and and and you know of course is it's like anything if you use it too that we develop resistance and that's exactly what's happening so you know the f d a just raised a limit of ground up that you can that's it that's in a few in food which i think is a total disaster you know so we're all walking around with this stuff in our bodies that the farmers are are spraying on this g m o corn for monsanto and i mean the whole thing is just really really off the wall as far as i'm concerned so we had a child die after getting a vaccine and that was our first child within hours of getting a vaccine and that sort of put set me down the road of learning about health things and so we've gone on to have now i have you as you saw in the in the parade i have a son twelve years old who was the armor and a daughter nine sebastian  and we do everything we can to feed the natural ingredients organic avoid as sugar and and corn syrup and all that kind of stuff as much as possible so in our own little network there are there are kids with with neurological issues now that's i would say g m o is the only thing the only problem out there we've got you know we're being bombarded with all directions from chemicals and in pharmaceuticals and vaccines and it's cetera et cetera but if it's something you're eating every day i think it's you reach it's sort of toxic tipping point there are lot of kids with allergies and asthma and this next generation of of children that are growing up are being bombarded with loads of chemicals in g m o foods that just didn't even exist ten or twenty years ago so this whole thing is a big science experiment and as my daughter science said i am not a science experiment