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Media Activism for System Change
Chapter 8
Food, Water, Pesticides and Health Freedom
Codex Alimentarius (a fancy name for 'food rules') is an ongoing attempt by Big Agro and Big Pharma to preempt local and national democratic choice about food, agriculture and medicine safety standards with international corporate control.
Our DVD Codex and Nutricide presents Dr. Rima Laibow, MD and General Bert Stubblebine (USA. Ret.) of the Natural Solutions Foundation alerting health professionals about the serious dangers to health and democracy this corporate agency poses and what can be done to stop it.
Our DVD Codex and Nutricide presents Dr. Rima Laibow, MD and General Bert Stubblebine (USA. Ret.) of the Natural Solutions Foundation alerting health professionals about the serious dangers to health and democracy this corporate agency poses and what can be done to stop it.
2007 - Without public consent, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) aerial sprayed Santa Cruz and Monterey with pesticides known to cause asthma and cancer.
Why? To eradicate a tiny bug - the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) - which has never been shown to cause significant crop damage anywhere.
Well over six hundred kids and adults got sick. Hundreds of seabirds died.
CDFA denied any connection between the spraying and widespread citizen sickness reports and announced plans to spray the greater Bay Area, including San Francisco nine months a year for five years.
A groundswell of citizen resistance arose with teach-ins, rallys, demonstrations, marches, hearings and lawsuits. EON helped by producing over 10 DVDs and posting over 50 video reports on the issue, including a 30-second PSA spot shown in Bay Area theatres. The aerial spraying plan was temporarily stopped, but is still in the works.
Why? To eradicate a tiny bug - the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) - which has never been shown to cause significant crop damage anywhere.
Well over six hundred kids and adults got sick. Hundreds of seabirds died.
CDFA denied any connection between the spraying and widespread citizen sickness reports and announced plans to spray the greater Bay Area, including San Francisco nine months a year for five years.
A groundswell of citizen resistance arose with teach-ins, rallys, demonstrations, marches, hearings and lawsuits. EON helped by producing over 10 DVDs and posting over 50 video reports on the issue, including a 30-second PSA spot shown in Bay Area theatres. The aerial spraying plan was temporarily stopped, but is still in the works.
Forthcoming in 2009-10 - one of our next full-length documentary releases - Checkmate: Trade Rules, Pesticides and Human Rights - will look at California's 'Stop the Spray' movement in the larger context of the Monsanto-led 'war on bugs' and the transnational corporate attempt to dominate the world food supply with trade rules and profitable pollution.
Targeted spray area.
Stop the Spray demonstrators march across the Golden Gate Bridge.
As of August, 2009, following release of a court-ordered Enivronmental Impact Report opponents call bogus, CDFA says it will go ahead with its LBAM eradication plan. Why? Maybe for the millions in FEMA dollars it gets for the 'emergency' program.
The LBAM fight goes on....
The LBAM fight goes on....
Closely related to the corporate drive to control the world's food supply is the corporate drive to privatize global water sources. A mentor on this issue is author/activist Maude Barlow, who was recently appointed the United Nations first Senior Advisor on Water.
Warning of the coming struggle for water, Barlow says, 'Water is a commons, a public trust, and a human right.'
Our recent DVD on her, Blue Covenant, is the first of our reports on this issue.
Warning of the coming struggle for water, Barlow says, 'Water is a commons, a public trust, and a human right.'
Our recent DVD on her, Blue Covenant, is the first of our reports on this issue.