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When I first came here,
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we are a hippy, back to
nature, self-sufficient thing.
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We were watching too
many David Crockett,
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Daniel Boone movies
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and reading too much Thoreau.
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We were trying to seek
a different vision.
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The first time I saw bean
collections and so on,
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it was like woo, a
jewelry store, lit up,
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and I've always just been
dazzled by diversity.
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I don't like people that
are all straight, all gay,
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all communist, all Christian,
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let them all be there
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and absolutely the
different kinds of seeds.
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My great grandfather
was a farmer.
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Looking through our
family photo album,
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I just wish that I could like
somehow step into that photo,
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say "Hi great grandma.
It's me, Billy,
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"can I have some of these?"
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because I know for a fact
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that 90 something percent of
the things are now extinct.
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They're my family,
and they're gone.
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I have this horrible
vision someday
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that the creator would look down
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and he'd come look
around and say,
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"Well, where is this,
well where did that go?
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"I created this,
where did it go?
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"How come it's not here?"
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I see myself as Noah, not God.
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Noah didn't get to decide
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whether the crocodiles
came on the Ark or not,
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or the black flies.
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His job was to load 'em on,
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ok, that's my job.
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I have thousands of varieties
that I am maintaining,
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People of the future, plant
breeders, and gardeners,
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they will decide.
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What the heck did
Will save that for?
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I don't get to
make that decision.
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My job is to keep
these all on the Ark,
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keep them alive for
40 days and 40 nights
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until the flood's over.
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I may discover 10 years from now
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that that seed will
be in huge demand
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because it has in its genes
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some resistance to some disease
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which is only now evolving.
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In many many cases,
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what I've got is not
available anywhere else.
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She's my sweetheart.
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The year that I fail
to grow a variety
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is the year it is lost to me.
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And in some cases perhaps
lost to the planet,
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some of these things are right
on the edge of extinction.
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We have this collection
of several hundred
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potatoes that are
purple or black skinned
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and with yellow flesh,
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some with a purple skin
hot pink flecks in them.
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We have in the collection
a variety of lumpers.
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Most of the Irish in the 1830s
and 40s were growing lumpers,
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big yielder,
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and none of those varieties
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had any resistance
to late blight.
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This is the potato that
killed a million Irishmen.
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Because of the fact that
they were the one or two
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or three varieties that
were totally vulnerable.
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This is the variety
that explains why O
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is the biggest section of the
South Boston phone directory.
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Genetic diversity is the hedge
between us and global famine.
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The diversity in our seed
stocks is as endangered
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as a panda or a golden eagle
or a polar bear right now.
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We have the largest
seed shortage
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in history.
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It's this beautiful dance
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between the plant
and the humans,
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that find each other
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and make a culture possible.
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In Mesoamerica over
10,000 years ago,
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corn found humans,
and humans found corn.
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Corn really is this
beautiful co-creation
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between plants and humans.
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The domestication of corn
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was centered in the
Oaxacan Valley of Mexico.
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The incredible evolutionary
leaps that we took with corn
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is a miracle.
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It ignited this
sacred connection that
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Corn seeds moved along the
entire spine of the Americas.
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It became this revolution,
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it became this new way of
being able to feed ourselves.
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It's what fueled you from
a small tribe to an empire.
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Spies and traders and
anyone who was around
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and saw what it was doing
grabbed a handful and took off.
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It took 4,700 years to
get it to the U.S. border.
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Then about a thousand years ago,
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corn is everywhere in what we
now call the United States.
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Corn becomes
so elastic and adaptive
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that now we see corn being
grown on every continent.
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As keepers of the corn,
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the corn has come up with
us though our migrations,
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sustaining us.
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Our first mothers
were the Blue Corn
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and White Corn women.
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This is my grandmother,
my grandfather,
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my mom, my dad, my
brother, my sister,
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my kids, my
grandkids and myself.
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We all are one.
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My father said "Son,
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"never, never let
go of the corn.
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"When I pass on,
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"carry on the way of the corn."
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I've always been a
farmer all my life.
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From the day that
I can remember,
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I was out there with
my grandparents,
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my uncles and my father.
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The spiritual people
gave us the corn.
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They say when the
corn hears you,
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then they start dancing with
you with the leaves fluttering.
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Crow, crow damage, but
we still bring it in.
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Everything is brought in.
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People are too attracted
to the big and beautiful.
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But the Hopi woman
and man say that
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even this little
one here is special,
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because every corn
seed has life.
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Everything is special.
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And I'll plant these,
I'll plant this.
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We don't throw them away.
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We take care of them.
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In the womb, human
people are seeds.
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We see the seeds,
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being planted into the
womb of the mother earth.
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They may be calling me daddy
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and say "Daddy, I'm glad I'm
here with you," you know,
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'cause these are my children.
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Indian people, we
talk in one language,
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the language of the seeds.
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The most important
thing in my heart
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it's taking seeds
anywhere I can go.
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My grandfather tell me one time,
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"This is very
important for life,"
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and he put me before he died,
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before he died he put me,
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full of the seeds in my hand
and he said this is life.
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And put always in your pocket.
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Because if you have
seeds in your pocket,
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you can walk and eat the seeds
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and if you have money,
you cannot eat the money.
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This is gold! Seeds, they
are our own medicine.
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When we have to eat, we give
a little bit to the earth.
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I am working now for seven
years in Tesuque Pueblo.
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We lost our seeds,
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we lost our food.
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Pero, when you losing the seeds,
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you losing completely your
traditional ways of eating.
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I bring some of the crops
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to these Pueblo people.
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Quinoa, Amaranth.
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The lost crops of the Incas.
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It's part of this prophecy,
the condor and the eagle.
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Exchanging seeds,
exchanging knowledge.
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In all these bags you see,
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we have different
type of the seeds.
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This trailer there
was not one seed.
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Seven years
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we fill up with our
work, with our sweat,
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and this is food for the future.
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These seeds,
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they're not very happy
because they're one
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on the top of the other one.
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They are beginning to tell
us "We need a new house."
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A place where they
can have a home,
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like us.
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Native Seeds/SEARCH
is a seed bank.
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Most of the seeds came to
us through Native Americans.
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As modern creatures,
we're in debt to that.
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They are the last
expression of these stewards
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going back thousands of years
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that took care of these things
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and made sure that we got them.
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I had somebody the other day
call this Fort Knox.
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There's just so
much wealth in here.
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There's about two thousand
different varieties
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of invaluable
agricultural crops.
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All 38 generations,
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all this energy comes
down into the seed,
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you get to hold it and
then all the future
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and the millions more that
can come out goes out.
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And you are at that point
when you hold those seeds
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in your hands.
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Right here is the mother corn.
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This is the ancient ancestor
from which all corn came.
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And that's what we're losing.
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I mean we just don't
have the time left again
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on this small planet to
recreate all this stuff.
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That's why it's so invaluable.
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Once it's gone, it's gone.
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Seeds are living embryos.
They do have a life span.
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We try to grow everything
out every 10 years,
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that's why we have
the 60 acre farm here.
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We are hugely vulnerable
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with all of those seeds.
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You think about crimes
against humanity,
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blow up a seed bank in war.
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It becomes an immediate
target to weaken a country.
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When we invaded Iraq,
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we destroyed that seed bank
and we destroyed that garden.
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And we destroyed that repository
of the great ancient seeds
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that had been collected
by that government
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for the benefit of mankind.
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During World War II,
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Hitler was aiming to conquer
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Nikolai Vavilov's seed
bank in Saint Petersburg.
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And the people associated
with that seed bank
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holed themselves
up in the building
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and kept those seeds protected,
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even though they were
starving to death
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and missiles and bombs were
landing all around them.
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I remember gardening
with these little hands.
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Now they have
gardens of their own
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and children of their own.
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If there's no one to
pass that seed onto,
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that living link and
that living seed is lost.
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These are grandpa's
Morning Glories,
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the seed that started
the whole movement.
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When we started Seed
Savers in the 70's,
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we didn't have anything,
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we just had an idea and a dream
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so we had thousands of
beans in my living room.
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It was now our responsibility
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to keep all those
bean varieties alive
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what we've saved over those
years is irreplaceable
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and if we hadn't started then,
we would've lost a lot more.
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It's always amazing to me
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when I started out with
two varieties of seed
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and now I'm here looking at
over 24,000 accessions of seed
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that we're permanently
maintaining at the seed vault.
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All of our seeds are in
air tight foil packs,
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so they're not
maintaining any moisture.
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We also store a backup
collection at the seed vault
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off the coast of
Norway, at Svalbard.
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Svalbard has been called
the doomsday seed vault.
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The idea is that if one
of these asteroids hits,
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and causes a tsunami that
wipes out part of the world
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or there's catastrophic
cultural and economic collapse.
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You know, we see all the seed
banks in the world looted,
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just for food.
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The idea was to have a backup,
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like the ultimate
backup just in case
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the seed bank is destroyed and
they need their seeds back.
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But the problem with it is that
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we think that we don't have
to worry about this now.
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It gives a false
sense of security.
253
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All the gene banks,
they're all arks.
254
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Ultimately, life does
not go on in an ark.
255
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I'm not confident
that any of us.
256
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Have got something
long term in place
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that can weather the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune
258
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that might come our way
259
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We're now facing
severity of climate change,
260
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the most radical we've had
since the last ice age.
261
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This is happening at
an unprecedented rate
262
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and it's putting pressure on
the diversity of life forms.
263
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You know this is the
driest they have seen
264
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since 119 years.
265
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The Golden state's drought
the worst in over 1000 years.
266
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In northern New Mexico,
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we have a series of
drier and drier years.
268
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Normally, this time of the year,
269
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we're going to get
ready for planting,
270
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but there's not any moisture.
271
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Usually, you'll hit a wet spot.
272
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Lot of the animals begin to
feel the effects of the drought.
273
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They consumed probably
a third of our corn
274
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and all of our beans.
275
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It's tough for everybody.
276
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Our corn is among
the few places
277
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that is environmentally
adapted to drought.
278
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The Hopi grow corn
with no irrigation.
279
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All of our ceremonies
are for rain.
280
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You petition the clouds
to come and bless us.
281
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We say in our prayers,
may the cloud people come.
282
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May the Cachina people come
and visit us and bring us rain.
283
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May the corn grow up and
produce their young ones.
284
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You never lose faith
in the cloud people.
285
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This is a way that my
prayers have been answered.
286
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One day,
287
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our corn will become very, very
valuable to human survival.
288
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I was very, very fortunate
when I was a child,
289
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there was a fantastic tree.
290
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My tree began from
a tiny little seed
291
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and I spent hours and hours up
in the branches of that tree.
292
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And how magic that it could
actually grow into a big tree.
293
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That tree is still
in the garden today.
294
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Seeds are so crafty.
295
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There is a power, it's a magic.
296
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To me it's magic.
297
00:24:01,769 --> 00:24:04,338
It's a life force is so strong.
298
00:24:09,743 --> 00:24:12,680
There are seeds
that rely on fire
299
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There are seeds that tangle
up in the hair of an animal
300
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They get carried for miles
301
00:24:25,358 --> 00:24:28,594
There are seeds
that can't germinate
302
00:24:28,596 --> 00:24:32,433
unless they pass through
the gut of an animal.
303
00:24:35,135 --> 00:24:38,636
Darwin was amazed
that a seed grew
304
00:24:38,638 --> 00:24:43,010
after it had been 21 hours
in the stomach of an owl.
305
00:24:47,647 --> 00:24:50,048
A seed is a doorway
306
00:24:50,050 --> 00:24:52,987
between the life
of the old plant
307
00:24:54,721 --> 00:24:57,424
and its gift to the new plant.
308
00:25:11,739 --> 00:25:14,706
Our teachers are the plants.
309
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And they're teaching us
310
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that they have to
sacrifice themselves
311
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in order to be able
to give something
312
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to the next generation.
313
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It's a form of reincarnation.
314
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Come on in.
315
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Come on in.
316
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Hello Hello.
317
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Come on in, welcome.
318
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Oh my gosh.
319
00:26:03,891 --> 00:26:05,190
Oh my gosh this is amazing!
320
00:26:05,192 --> 00:26:06,792
Check it out, Check it out.
321
00:26:06,794 --> 00:26:07,825
This is how we roll.
322
00:26:07,827 --> 00:26:09,460
That's why they
call me the corn,
323
00:26:09,462 --> 00:26:11,896
they call me the corn hippie.
324
00:26:11,898 --> 00:26:13,532
Guys, This is unbelievable.
325
00:26:13,534 --> 00:26:14,766
There's so much corn here,
326
00:26:14,768 --> 00:26:17,902
I mean, right here in
these bags right here.
327
00:26:17,904 --> 00:26:22,306
This one has 87
different kinds of corn
328
00:26:22,308 --> 00:26:23,842
- from Urubama Vale.
- Oh my God.
329
00:26:23,844 --> 00:26:25,776
This is from
the sacred valley.
330
00:26:25,778 --> 00:26:27,746
It has to get certified
with the phytosanitary
331
00:26:27,748 --> 00:26:29,213
with the Peruvian government.
332
00:26:29,215 --> 00:26:30,748
And once we get it certified,
333
00:26:30,750 --> 00:26:33,619
then we're ready to ship it
wherever we want to send it.
334
00:26:33,621 --> 00:26:35,219
That's astounding.
335
00:26:35,221 --> 00:26:36,723
Look at that fava.
336
00:26:37,790 --> 00:26:39,892
For all the crazy people like
me who sit there at night
337
00:26:39,894 --> 00:26:41,860
and look at bags of beans,
338
00:26:41,862 --> 00:26:43,528
it leaves us a mystery.
339
00:26:43,530 --> 00:26:44,630
This is so precious.
340
00:26:44,632 --> 00:26:46,498
No one even has an idea
341
00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:48,232
how much they look like jewels.
342
00:26:48,234 --> 00:26:51,335
They look like polished
agates, look at this one.
343
00:26:51,337 --> 00:26:53,872
It must be artistic
genius of nature
344
00:26:53,874 --> 00:26:55,274
that allows this to happen.
345
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,849
I've gotta sleep with this one!
346
00:27:06,653 --> 00:27:08,253
When I was six years old,
347
00:27:08,255 --> 00:27:10,822
my parents asked me what
I wanted for my birthday,
348
00:27:10,824 --> 00:27:12,490
and I said, "Well
I want squash."
349
00:27:12,492 --> 00:27:13,624
I didn't want a G.I. Joe
350
00:27:13,626 --> 00:27:14,892
and I didn't want
a baseball bat,
351
00:27:14,894 --> 00:27:16,827
I wanted squash.
352
00:27:16,829 --> 00:27:18,863
And I wanted those because
I wanted to save the seeds
353
00:27:18,865 --> 00:27:19,733
and grow 'em.
354
00:27:22,836 --> 00:27:24,870
My seeds are my kitchen table.
355
00:27:24,872 --> 00:27:27,471
My seeds are my
way of sharing food
356
00:27:27,473 --> 00:27:29,843
with people all over the world.
357
00:27:31,211 --> 00:27:33,478
I've been to over a
hundred countries,
358
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,382
collecting thousands
and thousands of seeds
359
00:27:37,384 --> 00:27:40,518
Here from Bolivia, looking
like a speckled Robin's egg
360
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,755
This bean here from Tanzania.
361
00:27:43,757 --> 00:27:45,790
One that's coming from Zimbabwe.
362
00:27:45,792 --> 00:27:49,827
A variety raised by the
West Virginia hillbillies.
363
00:27:49,829 --> 00:27:51,563
It's exquisitely sculptured seed
364
00:27:51,565 --> 00:27:54,736
of a trichosanthes
gourd from Vietnam,
365
00:27:55,702 --> 00:27:57,768
The seed is a time capsule.
366
00:27:57,770 --> 00:27:59,904
It's preserving
things from the past
367
00:27:59,906 --> 00:28:03,644
but it's also bringing
things for the future.
368
00:28:05,011 --> 00:28:06,812
And this is, uh.
369
00:28:06,814 --> 00:28:10,681
I feel I have an
obligation to the world,
370
00:28:10,683 --> 00:28:12,918
whether that's
unbalanced or not,
371
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,420
to bring this appreciation
372
00:28:15,422 --> 00:28:18,590
to as big a swath of
humanity as possible.
373
00:28:18,592 --> 00:28:22,393
This tiny little skinny tree
with really large leaves
374
00:28:22,395 --> 00:28:23,728
is in the cacao family,
375
00:28:23,730 --> 00:28:26,430
same plants that
produce chocolate.
376
00:28:26,432 --> 00:28:30,568
And this is just a
distant relative of cacao
377
00:28:30,570 --> 00:28:33,740
that still hasn't
been commercialized.
378
00:28:35,843 --> 00:28:40,215
What if there's all kinds
of other seeds in nature
379
00:28:40,446 --> 00:28:43,748
that have the potential
for food production?
380
00:28:43,750 --> 00:28:44,850
Way down there.
381
00:28:44,852 --> 00:28:45,917
Feel the end of it?
382
00:28:45,919 --> 00:28:46,754
Yeah.
383
00:28:48,721 --> 00:28:49,520
Can you hold him?
384
00:28:49,522 --> 00:28:51,856
This is what we
just harvested.
385
00:28:54,295 --> 00:28:56,394
You know that these,
386
00:28:56,396 --> 00:28:59,430
these have been known to
make grown men scream.
387
00:28:59,432 --> 00:29:01,699
They say that you can have
a fever for several days
388
00:29:01,701 --> 00:29:02,804
if they bite.
389
00:29:08,642 --> 00:29:10,909
'Kay, this
is called Pietrina.
390
00:29:10,911 --> 00:29:13,312
And it's for being
used on cuts and sores
391
00:29:13,314 --> 00:29:15,814
and almost has the
look of iodine.
392
00:29:15,816 --> 00:29:19,787
There's about 300,000 species
of plants on the planet.
393
00:29:27,894 --> 00:29:31,563
We come down to 30,000
different edible plants,
394
00:29:31,565 --> 00:29:35,737
You put 'em in your mouth
and just kinda suck on them.
395
00:29:53,354 --> 00:29:56,691
120 are used on a
really regular basis
396
00:30:04,865 --> 00:30:08,836
and most of humanity
subsists on a mere 10.
397
00:30:09,769 --> 00:30:13,138
Beans, corn,
398
00:30:13,140 --> 00:30:17,345
wheat, barley and rice.
399
00:30:18,778 --> 00:30:22,847
Virtually nothing compared
to the bigger picture.
400
00:30:22,849 --> 00:30:24,949
We should put
particular attention
401
00:30:24,951 --> 00:30:27,017
to the seeds of wild plants
402
00:30:27,019 --> 00:30:30,421
and figure out how we can
get those into cultivation
403
00:30:30,423 --> 00:30:32,990
because they're part of
the biodiversity heritage
404
00:30:32,992 --> 00:30:34,526
that will feed the world.
405
00:30:34,528 --> 00:30:35,360
Pick 'em out of
there, Patrick.
406
00:30:35,362 --> 00:30:36,594
There's a good one?
407
00:30:36,596 --> 00:30:39,765
So we're getting a meal on
a wild plant here, dali dali,
408
00:30:39,767 --> 00:30:42,667
which is one of the finest
roots in the world to eat.
409
00:30:42,669 --> 00:30:45,804
Top chefs would go
crazy over dali dali,
410
00:30:45,806 --> 00:30:46,505
absolutely crazy over it.
411
00:30:46,507 --> 00:30:49,009
So why don't we grow it more?
412
00:30:49,876 --> 00:30:52,009
Back in 1700s,
413
00:30:52,011 --> 00:30:56,384
Thomas Jefferson wanted to
get seeds of risotto rice,
414
00:30:56,916 --> 00:30:58,150
And it was thanks to slyness
415
00:30:58,152 --> 00:31:02,356
that he was able to carry out
some of this contraband seed
416
00:31:02,655 --> 00:31:06,056
and raise it near
Monticello in the new world.
417
00:31:06,058 --> 00:31:08,160
To feed this
expanding continent
418
00:31:08,162 --> 00:31:10,694
that immigrants
were streaming into,
419
00:31:10,696 --> 00:31:14,467
we needed a diversification
of food crops.
420
00:31:15,499 --> 00:31:15,699
In the 1890s,
421
00:31:15,701 --> 00:31:19,603
over a billion packets of
seed were distributed for free
422
00:31:19,605 --> 00:31:21,909
to farmers around the country.
423
00:31:25,045 --> 00:31:26,878
The American Seed
Trade Association
424
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,979
hired the very first lobbyist
425
00:31:28,981 --> 00:31:33,153
to stop the federal "seed
giveaway" as they called it.
426
00:31:33,854 --> 00:31:36,654
They saw seed as a commodity,
427
00:31:36,656 --> 00:31:39,458
something that could be
quantified, measured,
428
00:31:39,460 --> 00:31:42,193
bought, sold, and
traded on stock markets,
429
00:31:42,195 --> 00:31:45,197
just a number on a spreadsheet.
430
00:31:45,199 --> 00:31:49,570
By 1924, the federal government
seed program would cease.
431
00:31:49,769 --> 00:31:51,202
These great
industrialists said
432
00:31:51,204 --> 00:31:52,871
"The only way we can
really make profit
433
00:31:52,873 --> 00:31:56,106
"on American agriculture
is to invent a seed
434
00:31:56,108 --> 00:31:58,910
"that they can't save."
435
00:31:58,912 --> 00:32:01,912
And that gave birth to
the hybrid seed industry.
436
00:32:01,914 --> 00:32:06,086
Hybrids were bigger and
better and produces more.
437
00:32:06,519 --> 00:32:07,922
Success is yield.
438
00:32:09,088 --> 00:32:12,224
Hybrid companies
fueled that fever
439
00:32:12,226 --> 00:32:14,825
to get the biggest and the best.
440
00:32:14,827 --> 00:32:18,763
Corn contests was rampant
throughout the midwest.
441
00:32:18,765 --> 00:32:21,900
You were measured not by how
many times you went to church,
442
00:32:21,902 --> 00:32:24,669
it was how good
of corn you grew.
443
00:32:24,671 --> 00:32:28,940
Everybody was winning
that had hybrid corn!
444
00:32:28,942 --> 00:32:31,876
If you save the seeds from
a hybrid and plant it again,
445
00:32:31,878 --> 00:32:36,014
you get what I call
"Mr. Toad's Wild Ride".
446
00:32:36,016 --> 00:32:38,616
Recessive genes that were
hidden in the parents
447
00:32:38,618 --> 00:32:40,251
express themselves again.
448
00:32:40,253 --> 00:32:41,553
This is like the grandparents,
449
00:32:41,555 --> 00:32:42,786
the grandkids start coming out
450
00:32:42,788 --> 00:32:45,055
with all sorts of weird traits.
451
00:32:45,057 --> 00:32:47,057
A little more like the mom,
a little more like the dad,
452
00:32:47,059 --> 00:32:48,829
like old uncle Harry.
453
00:32:50,063 --> 00:32:51,129
Farmers took it for granted
454
00:32:51,131 --> 00:32:54,599
that we go to a shelf in
a store to buy our seeds.
455
00:32:54,601 --> 00:32:57,969
A profound change 'cause seed
is the beginning of all of it.
456
00:32:57,971 --> 00:32:58,969
If you're relying on
someone else for your seed,
457
00:32:58,971 --> 00:33:00,705
then it's like you're
relying for someone else
458
00:33:00,707 --> 00:33:01,640
on your soul or something.
459
00:33:01,642 --> 00:33:03,741
This is like this is
where it all starts.
460
00:33:03,743 --> 00:33:05,110
To not control that part of it
461
00:33:05,112 --> 00:33:08,779
is a major abdication of
control and responsibility,
462
00:33:08,781 --> 00:33:10,782
and yet we did it wholesale.
463
00:33:10,784 --> 00:33:12,784
It destroyed the
natural seed banks
464
00:33:12,786 --> 00:33:14,885
and the seed practices
of the farmers.
465
00:33:18,090 --> 00:33:20,124
Hybrid corn was the atom
bomb of agriculture.
466
00:33:28,067 --> 00:33:30,634
Right after the
Second World War,
467
00:33:30,636 --> 00:33:33,939
the Green Revolution
starts in Mexico.
468
00:33:33,941 --> 00:33:35,907
When you hear about
the Green Revolution,
469
00:33:35,909 --> 00:33:36,740
people sometimes think,
470
00:33:36,742 --> 00:33:38,176
well you know that's
about windmills
471
00:33:38,178 --> 00:33:40,844
and tofu powered sandals
or whatever it is.
472
00:33:40,846 --> 00:33:42,814
The Green in the
Green Revolution
473
00:33:42,816 --> 00:33:45,883
was never about
environmental consciousness.
474
00:33:45,885 --> 00:33:50,057
The Green was meant to be the
opposite of a red revolution.
475
00:33:50,891 --> 00:33:52,690
The visions of the
Rockefeller Foundation
476
00:33:52,692 --> 00:33:55,660
kicked off the Green Revolution.
477
00:33:55,662 --> 00:33:57,094
To provide cheap food,
478
00:33:57,096 --> 00:33:59,296
so that people would
remain capitalism
479
00:33:59,298 --> 00:34:02,836
and would not riot
and become communist.
480
00:34:03,836 --> 00:34:06,304
This is about developing
kinds of seed that matter
481
00:34:06,306 --> 00:34:10,240
for large scale commercial
farmers wherever they are.
482
00:34:10,242 --> 00:34:11,142
The Green Revolution was taking
483
00:34:11,144 --> 00:34:13,311
this rich knowledge
of peasant farming
484
00:34:13,313 --> 00:34:15,682
that evolve over millennia
485
00:34:16,717 --> 00:34:19,016
and tossing into the
dustbin of history,
486
00:34:19,018 --> 00:34:23,253
replacing it with modern
industrial agriculture.
487
00:34:23,255 --> 00:34:24,155
All of sudden,
488
00:34:24,157 --> 00:34:26,825
men in white coats
become the champions
489
00:34:26,827 --> 00:34:30,998
and the sole arbiters of
knowledge about seeds globally.
490
00:34:33,233 --> 00:34:34,766
Seeds of the green revolution,
491
00:34:34,768 --> 00:34:37,101
what are called the
miracles varieties.
492
00:34:37,103 --> 00:34:41,271
They were bred for
taking up more chemicals.
493
00:34:41,273 --> 00:34:44,242
The hungry industry
of war chemicals
494
00:34:44,244 --> 00:34:47,412
wanted to deploy these
chemicals as agrochemicals,
495
00:34:47,414 --> 00:34:51,316
trying to push chemicals
into agriculture.
496
00:34:51,318 --> 00:34:55,690
90% of the seed that
we use to grow our food,
497
00:34:55,922 --> 00:34:57,322
is owned by chemical companies,
498
00:34:57,324 --> 00:35:00,925
by pesticide and by
pharmaceutical companies.
499
00:35:00,927 --> 00:35:03,728
Now there's a huge
conflict of interest.
500
00:35:03,730 --> 00:35:06,363
When the chemical
companies own the seeds,
501
00:35:06,365 --> 00:35:08,900
they not only want you dependent
on the seed as a farmer,
502
00:35:08,902 --> 00:35:11,970
but they also want you
dependent on their chemicals.
503
00:35:11,972 --> 00:35:14,438
We use 80 million pounds
a year of Atrazine,
504
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,307
just in the U.S.
505
00:35:16,309 --> 00:35:18,909
Atrazine's demasculinizing
frogs and fish,
506
00:35:18,911 --> 00:35:22,882
it can completely cause males
to develop into females.
507
00:35:24,217 --> 00:35:27,385
Atrazine leads to
promoting breast cancer.
508
00:35:27,387 --> 00:35:31,923
It's associated with
miscarriages and birth defects.
509
00:35:31,925 --> 00:35:35,896
We should've learned this
lesson way back with DDT.
510
00:35:37,230 --> 00:35:38,463
And we're just learning
it over and over
511
00:35:38,465 --> 00:35:41,202
and over and over
and over again.
512
00:35:46,873 --> 00:35:49,273
The big concerns are Cancers
513
00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:52,278
that pesticides are
associated with.
514
00:35:58,784 --> 00:36:01,452
My whole entry into this
area was because of Atrazine.
515
00:36:01,454 --> 00:36:05,826
The actual manufacturer
hired me to look at Atrazine.
516
00:36:07,126 --> 00:36:08,726
Novartis told me
517
00:36:08,728 --> 00:36:10,095
I couldn't talk to
people about my research.
518
00:36:10,097 --> 00:36:11,929
I couldn't publish it
and I couldn't write it
519
00:36:11,931 --> 00:36:15,166
and I thought, what do you mean?
520
00:36:15,168 --> 00:36:18,769
Then they started trying
to manipulate data.
521
00:36:18,771 --> 00:36:19,871
And that's when I realized,
522
00:36:19,873 --> 00:36:21,805
I've helped the
chemical industry
523
00:36:21,807 --> 00:36:25,110
keep this chemical in the
market that I know is bad.
524
00:36:25,112 --> 00:36:27,045
And go home to my wife and kids
525
00:36:27,047 --> 00:36:28,912
and go "Oh, guess
what I did today."
526
00:36:28,914 --> 00:36:32,450
I did a study that
confused all the sciences
527
00:36:32,452 --> 00:36:35,385
and now people don't know
that this chemical's bad.
528
00:36:35,387 --> 00:36:38,456
Novartis and Syngenta
spent millions fighting me.
529
00:36:38,458 --> 00:36:41,126
And when you look Novartis
and Syngenta's strategy,
530
00:36:41,128 --> 00:36:44,195
the first thing that they
say is discredit Hayes.
531
00:36:44,197 --> 00:36:45,329
They couldn't prove
my science was bad.
532
00:36:45,331 --> 00:36:47,898
They wrote down a
checklist of things
533
00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:49,434
they were going to do to me,
534
00:36:49,436 --> 00:36:53,106
to hurt my students,
to investigate my wife.
535
00:36:54,173 --> 00:36:56,840
They actually wrote it down!
536
00:36:56,842 --> 00:36:58,909
The first page in the
secret spy evil handbook
537
00:36:58,911 --> 00:37:00,244
is don't write it down
538
00:37:00,246 --> 00:37:03,850
or you eat it or it
self destruct, right?
539
00:37:06,952 --> 00:37:09,854
I do everything I can in
a position that I'm in.
540
00:37:09,856 --> 00:37:12,222
But you know what some
of the dangers are,
541
00:37:12,224 --> 00:37:16,360
being an academic and
speaking out for what's right.
542
00:37:16,362 --> 00:37:18,131
We all have to do it.
543
00:37:34,014 --> 00:37:37,148
We live in the most self
sustainable place on earth.
544
00:37:37,150 --> 00:37:41,485
We can grow any plant
from Kakela to Hanalei.
545
00:37:41,487 --> 00:37:43,954
It's such a cycle
of life around here
546
00:37:43,956 --> 00:37:46,092
with the ocean and the land.
547
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,030
Hawaiians knew from
the beginning of time.
548
00:37:52,032 --> 00:37:55,166
Our whole world revolves
around Aloha A'ina,
549
00:37:55,168 --> 00:37:59,340
giving back to the land
because the land gives to us.
550
00:38:01,842 --> 00:38:06,010
Native Hawaiians have this
incredible agricultural system
551
00:38:06,012 --> 00:38:09,917
able to sustain three
times today's population.
552
00:38:12,085 --> 00:38:16,257
In the 1800s, plantation
agriculture happened in Hawaii,
553
00:38:17,324 --> 00:38:20,157
and what you see is
private land ownership
554
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:21,626
happening in Hawaii.
555
00:38:24,130 --> 00:38:26,030
The original missionary families
556
00:38:26,032 --> 00:38:29,236
are still the primary
private landowners.
557
00:38:32,438 --> 00:38:35,606
The descendants of the
original missionaries
558
00:38:35,608 --> 00:38:39,045
open up the first
sugar cane plantations.
559
00:38:42,148 --> 00:38:45,950
The last sugar cane mill
on this island closed down
560
00:38:45,952 --> 00:38:47,584
eight years ago.
561
00:38:47,586 --> 00:38:52,090
And in its place biotech
chemical seed companies came in
562
00:38:52,092 --> 00:38:54,260
and took over agriculture.
563
00:38:56,195 --> 00:38:59,898
They say sugar ruled
Hawaii, sugar was king.
564
00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:03,269
Well, now I would say
the biotech industry,
565
00:39:04,237 --> 00:39:07,905
these chemical companies
are king in Hawaii.
566
00:39:12,913 --> 00:39:15,313
I live in a community
that consists of
567
00:39:15,315 --> 00:39:18,418
pure Native Hawaiian
native speakers.
568
00:39:22,655 --> 00:39:27,090
I have waited for an
opportunity to own my own home.
569
00:39:27,092 --> 00:39:29,159
And not just own my own home,
570
00:39:29,161 --> 00:39:33,333
but a space as a single
mother to raise my children.
571
00:39:36,536 --> 00:39:40,106
Many Hawaiians die waiting
572
00:39:41,307 --> 00:39:42,606
for their opportunity
573
00:39:42,608 --> 00:39:44,911
at an Hawaiian homestead.
574
00:39:45,711 --> 00:39:49,713
I moved out here and at the
time sugar was just moving out
575
00:39:49,715 --> 00:39:53,184
and the fields around
us were fallow.
576
00:39:53,186 --> 00:39:56,523
I started to see
different fields pop up
577
00:39:57,657 --> 00:39:59,994
that I've never seen before.
578
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:01,927
It alarmed me.
579
00:40:01,929 --> 00:40:05,063
I had no idea what was,
what was happening,
580
00:40:05,065 --> 00:40:08,066
what was taking
the place of sugar.
581
00:40:08,068 --> 00:40:12,039
Then I started to experience
very bad allergies,
582
00:40:12,271 --> 00:40:14,639
migraines and illnesses,
583
00:40:14,641 --> 00:40:18,275
just not being able
to get over colds.
584
00:40:18,277 --> 00:40:22,448
My doctor said, "Oh you have
full blown adult asthma."
585
00:40:23,115 --> 00:40:25,052
What I started to see
586
00:40:25,751 --> 00:40:29,720
that the farmers were
spraying pesticides.
587
00:40:32,391 --> 00:40:36,562
They are spraying things at
night while we are sleeping.
588
00:40:38,431 --> 00:40:41,068
My two daughters wake up with
589
00:40:42,469 --> 00:40:44,204
blood-soaked pillows.
590
00:40:51,610 --> 00:40:54,778
There's hundreds and
hundreds of acres
591
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:58,952
where these chemical
corporations test their seed.
592
00:41:00,552 --> 00:41:04,391
18 tons of restricted
pesticides being dumped,
593
00:41:06,059 --> 00:41:09,396
right next to schools
and neighborhoods.
594
00:41:16,036 --> 00:41:17,769
I'm a teacher at Waimea
Canyon Middle School
595
00:41:17,771 --> 00:41:20,570
for the past 18 years.
596
00:41:20,572 --> 00:41:23,740
There's ag lands
adjacent to our campus.
597
00:41:23,742 --> 00:41:27,744
It is literally 100 yards
up wind from our school.
598
00:41:27,746 --> 00:41:29,213
That's the field that
they were spraying
599
00:41:29,215 --> 00:41:32,152
and we can actually
feel the mists.
600
00:41:32,786 --> 00:41:35,686
I contacted Syngenta and said
601
00:41:35,688 --> 00:41:38,592
we believe that
drift is occurring.
602
00:41:40,492 --> 00:41:41,626
During PE,
603
00:41:41,628 --> 00:41:45,063
a cloud of gases came over them
604
00:41:45,065 --> 00:41:48,066
and kids just started dropping.
605
00:41:49,268 --> 00:41:51,735
There was chaos on
campus, it was horrific.
606
00:41:54,173 --> 00:41:58,242
There wasn't enough
room in the health room.
607
00:41:58,244 --> 00:42:02,016
About 140 children were
seeking assistance.
608
00:42:03,083 --> 00:42:07,253
There was this effort by
administrators and politicians
609
00:42:08,353 --> 00:42:10,123
to whitewash it over,
610
00:42:10,824 --> 00:42:13,624
and immediately
in the newspaper,
611
00:42:13,626 --> 00:42:15,793
you know, school evacuated
because of stink weed,
612
00:42:15,795 --> 00:42:19,664
and that became the
specious explanation,
613
00:42:19,666 --> 00:42:21,501
that became the story.
614
00:42:22,835 --> 00:42:26,704
Teachers came
together and stood up.
615
00:42:26,706 --> 00:42:29,209
"Stop poisoning our children".
616
00:42:30,275 --> 00:42:32,709
Monsanto, Dow, Dupont,
and Hawaii and elsewhere,
617
00:42:32,711 --> 00:42:34,244
they've got a blank
check to experiment
618
00:42:34,246 --> 00:42:38,251
with any chemical they
want on these test plots.
619
00:42:39,219 --> 00:42:41,885
You've got the most
toxic insecticides
620
00:42:41,887 --> 00:42:43,854
by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
621
00:42:46,525 --> 00:42:49,392
The seed companies,
the chemical companies,
622
00:42:49,394 --> 00:42:50,628
especially Monsanto,
623
00:42:50,630 --> 00:42:54,132
use every means of control
624
00:42:54,134 --> 00:42:57,635
to manipulate our government
and other governments.
625
00:42:57,637 --> 00:43:01,809
They pour huge amounts of
money into political campaigns.
626
00:43:02,809 --> 00:43:05,309
They pour huge amounts
of money into lobbying.
627
00:43:05,311 --> 00:43:07,744
They have many of their
own people embedded
628
00:43:07,746 --> 00:43:12,249
in the key decision making
roles in the U.S. Government.
629
00:43:12,251 --> 00:43:13,086
In 1992,
630
00:43:14,054 --> 00:43:15,853
the approval of genetically
engineered crops
631
00:43:15,855 --> 00:43:17,688
was done by Michael Taylor,
632
00:43:17,690 --> 00:43:19,590
who was a lawyer for Monsanto
633
00:43:19,592 --> 00:43:23,764
and went right from Monsanto
to working for the government.
634
00:43:25,764 --> 00:43:26,764
Tom Vilsack was named
635
00:43:26,766 --> 00:43:28,566
the Biotechnology
Industrial Organization's
636
00:43:28,568 --> 00:43:30,501
governor of the year.
637
00:43:30,503 --> 00:43:34,675
His law firm defended
Monsanto in the Supreme Court
638
00:43:35,942 --> 00:43:39,177
and he became the
Secretary of Agriculture.
639
00:43:39,179 --> 00:43:40,311
Here you have somebody
who's in control
640
00:43:40,313 --> 00:43:42,179
of agricultural policy,
641
00:43:42,181 --> 00:43:44,548
absolutely linked to the hip
to the biotechnology industry
642
00:43:44,550 --> 00:43:46,816
and to Monsanto's interests
643
00:43:46,818 --> 00:43:48,286
The revolving door between
Monsanto and government
644
00:43:48,288 --> 00:43:51,557
is going to fast,
it's almost dizzying.
645
00:43:54,726 --> 00:43:55,659
The corporations,
646
00:43:55,661 --> 00:43:57,728
they said we wanna
really own these seeds.
647
00:43:57,730 --> 00:43:59,900
We want patents on life.
648
00:44:00,967 --> 00:44:03,534
It was fast tracked
to the Supreme Court.
649
00:44:03,536 --> 00:44:06,237
It was a five-four decision
with Clarence Thomas,
650
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,438
in the lead of the five,
651
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,512
saying "Yes, you can patent
seeds, you can patent life."
652
00:44:11,744 --> 00:44:12,709
Very few people know,
653
00:44:12,711 --> 00:44:15,746
but Clarence Thomas
was a Monsanto lawyer.
654
00:44:15,748 --> 00:44:19,849
When I first heard about
the idea of patenting a seed,
655
00:44:19,851 --> 00:44:21,851
or any kind of plant,
656
00:44:21,853 --> 00:44:24,322
I was absolutely
horrified and I thought,
657
00:44:24,324 --> 00:44:25,822
surely that'll never be allowed.
658
00:44:25,824 --> 00:44:28,291
You can't own nature.
659
00:44:44,943 --> 00:44:46,844
Under section 101
of the Patent Act,
660
00:44:46,846 --> 00:44:50,880
which defines what can be
patented in the United States,
661
00:44:50,882 --> 00:44:54,418
you can only patent a
machine, a manufacture,
662
00:44:54,420 --> 00:44:56,987
or an inventor's
composition of matter.
663
00:44:56,989 --> 00:45:01,360
And I fail to see how a
seed can be either of those.
664
00:45:02,829 --> 00:45:06,463
Monsanto takes one gene out
of tens of thousands of genes,
665
00:45:06,465 --> 00:45:09,967
changes that, and says "No, no,
now we own the whole plant."
666
00:45:09,969 --> 00:45:12,269
It's one of the most
extraordinary giveaways,
667
00:45:12,271 --> 00:45:14,905
giving corporations the
natural reproduction
668
00:45:14,907 --> 00:45:15,572
of all life forms,
669
00:45:15,574 --> 00:45:16,907
saying you can make a profit
670
00:45:16,909 --> 00:45:19,909
on every one of
those reproductions.
671
00:45:19,911 --> 00:45:21,679
So they don't just
own the seeds,
672
00:45:21,681 --> 00:45:24,782
they own all of the
offspring of those seeds,
673
00:45:24,784 --> 00:45:26,787
and patent them forever.
674
00:45:33,826 --> 00:45:37,798
The threat is there
by conglomerates to
675
00:45:43,670 --> 00:45:45,469
legally saying they own it
676
00:45:45,471 --> 00:45:49,373
because they're the
first to patent it.
677
00:45:49,375 --> 00:45:53,043
We're the custodians of
this knowledge and the corn,
678
00:45:53,045 --> 00:45:55,781
and how dare others
take it away.
679
00:45:56,949 --> 00:45:59,749
Once these corns
get contaminated,
680
00:45:59,751 --> 00:46:01,952
there's no way you
can breed it out.
681
00:46:01,954 --> 00:46:04,554
The only safe thing to do
is actually incinerate,
682
00:46:04,556 --> 00:46:06,724
y'know I wouldn't
feed it to animals,
683
00:46:06,726 --> 00:46:10,564
I wouldn't compost it
because it's in the DNA,
684
00:46:11,396 --> 00:46:15,568
it's an abuse to seeds and
to us as indigenous people
685
00:46:19,771 --> 00:46:22,940
With the GMO seeds
that are out there.
686
00:46:22,942 --> 00:46:25,008
We need to protect our seeds
687
00:46:25,010 --> 00:46:29,382
We need to save our seeds
and we need to plant them
688
00:46:30,583 --> 00:46:32,916
for the survival
of our communities
689
00:46:32,918 --> 00:46:34,820
and survival of Earthmom.
690
00:46:49,568 --> 00:46:51,702
Our people know that
where there is wild rice,
691
00:46:51,704 --> 00:46:53,373
there are Anishnabe.
692
00:46:55,675 --> 00:46:57,943
It is our most sacred food.
693
00:47:02,681 --> 00:47:06,852
We have harvested this rice
for thousands of years.
694
00:47:10,655 --> 00:47:14,827
This wild rice doesn't grow
anywhere else in the world.
695
00:47:19,898 --> 00:47:21,766
We engaged in a battle
with the corporations
696
00:47:21,768 --> 00:47:23,633
and with the University
of Minnesota.
697
00:47:26,773 --> 00:47:27,738
The University of Minnesota
698
00:47:27,740 --> 00:47:29,840
wanted to genetically
engineer wild rice.
699
00:47:29,842 --> 00:47:31,675
We were very concerned
700
00:47:31,677 --> 00:47:35,849
That would potentially
contaminate our wild rice
701
00:47:36,481 --> 00:47:37,784
so we fought them.
702
00:47:39,117 --> 00:47:40,985
The first opposition
witness out of the gate
703
00:47:40,987 --> 00:47:44,521
for three years in
a row was Monsanto.
704
00:47:44,523 --> 00:47:46,624
They came out every
time we testified.
705
00:47:46,626 --> 00:47:48,825
They said if the Ojibwe
were able to stop
706
00:47:48,827 --> 00:47:50,827
the genetic engineering
of wild rice,
707
00:47:50,829 --> 00:47:55,032
it would send a chilling
message to the biotech industry.
708
00:47:55,034 --> 00:47:59,405
When they go and take that
dignity of that food from you
709
00:48:00,106 --> 00:48:03,807
and turn it into something
else it is offensive,
710
00:48:03,809 --> 00:48:05,909
it hurts our people, it
hurts us economically,
711
00:48:05,911 --> 00:48:08,047
and it hurts us spiritually.
712
00:48:09,581 --> 00:48:12,115
Wild should mean something.
713
00:48:12,117 --> 00:48:13,650
And I would assume
that that would mean
714
00:48:13,652 --> 00:48:15,921
not genetically engineered.
715
00:48:31,536 --> 00:48:33,903
Genetically modified plants,
716
00:48:33,905 --> 00:48:37,608
it's doing something which isn't
natural in the plant world.
717
00:48:44,750 --> 00:48:47,987
Genes from a completely
different species
718
00:48:49,489 --> 00:48:52,759
are being introduced
into these plants.
719
00:48:54,494 --> 00:48:56,028
And the plant fights.
720
00:48:59,632 --> 00:49:03,833
The plant is not happy to
receive an alien species.
721
00:49:03,835 --> 00:49:07,206
You can put a pig in
a room with a tomato
722
00:49:09,742 --> 00:49:11,941
and you can turn
the lights down low
723
00:49:11,943 --> 00:49:14,912
and play some nice music
and you serve some wine,
724
00:49:14,914 --> 00:49:17,180
but no matter how hard you try,
725
00:49:17,182 --> 00:49:21,554
you're not going to get the
pig to mate with a tomato.
726
00:49:21,887 --> 00:49:23,887
But the genetic engineers
727
00:49:23,889 --> 00:49:27,860
can take genes from the pig
and force it into the tomato.
728
00:49:29,528 --> 00:49:31,996
They've taken genes from
spiders and put them into goats.
729
00:49:31,998 --> 00:49:35,798
They've taken human genes and
put it into rice and corn.
730
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:39,970
They're eliminating the
natural species barriers
731
00:49:39,972 --> 00:49:42,008
and in a sense playing God.
732
00:49:43,842 --> 00:49:47,513
You shoot gold particles
laden with genes.
733
00:49:48,813 --> 00:49:49,880
But it's a very
unreliable process,
734
00:49:49,882 --> 00:49:53,316
so you have to also add
antibioresistance markers.
735
00:49:53,318 --> 00:49:55,818
You also have to
add viral promoters.
736
00:49:55,820 --> 00:49:58,255
And every genetically
engineered seed
737
00:49:58,257 --> 00:50:02,561
is a bundle of bacteria,
toxins, viral promoters.
738
00:50:03,996 --> 00:50:07,331
As we remove the
barriers between species,
739
00:50:07,333 --> 00:50:10,233
mixing these genes and viruses,
740
00:50:10,235 --> 00:50:12,570
the threshold also gets broken
741
00:50:12,572 --> 00:50:15,838
for the spread of new
infectious diseases.
742
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,012
A genetically modified seed
is the sorcerer's apprentice.
743
00:50:21,047 --> 00:50:24,715
We have the capacity to
start all this stuff,
744
00:50:24,717 --> 00:50:27,684
but we don't have the
capacity to stop it,
745
00:50:27,686 --> 00:50:29,954
and when we
manipulate a species,
746
00:50:29,956 --> 00:50:33,994
that is a kind of hubris
that we will pay for.
747
00:50:36,061 --> 00:50:36,894
You can't see the difference
748
00:50:36,896 --> 00:50:38,628
between genetically
engineered corn
749
00:50:38,630 --> 00:50:41,634
and non-genetically
engineered corn.
750
00:50:43,969 --> 00:50:46,805
This is not seeable
by a consumer.
751
00:50:53,878 --> 00:50:56,880
Independent scientists were
beginning to see indications
752
00:50:56,882 --> 00:50:58,849
that consuming genetically
engineered foods
753
00:50:58,851 --> 00:51:01,318
could have kidney
and liver damage.
754
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,920
We are seeing possible
reproductive issues
755
00:51:03,922 --> 00:51:05,088
in laboratory animals,
756
00:51:05,090 --> 00:51:06,190
these are peer reviewed science
757
00:51:06,192 --> 00:51:07,858
and now we're beginning
to see problems
758
00:51:07,860 --> 00:51:10,193
that could come from them.
759
00:51:27,079 --> 00:51:31,251
Wheat was the holy grail
for companies like Monsanto.
760
00:51:32,150 --> 00:51:34,083
If they could have had all
the wheat in the United States
761
00:51:34,085 --> 00:51:38,257
be genetically engineered,
that was really the holy grail.
762
00:51:57,710 --> 00:51:59,976
Monsanto spent
ten years developing
763
00:51:59,978 --> 00:52:02,214
the genetic modified wheat.
764
00:52:03,815 --> 00:52:06,883
Wheat farmers decided
we did not want them
765
00:52:06,885 --> 00:52:10,023
to release a genetically
modified wheat.
766
00:52:11,791 --> 00:52:13,891
We said "No, we're
not doing that."
767
00:52:13,893 --> 00:52:16,193
We don't have to take
the chance to fool
768
00:52:16,195 --> 00:52:19,329
with the genetic
modified plants.
769
00:52:19,331 --> 00:52:23,702
We said "Nope, we don't want
it," and now we've got it.
770
00:52:26,271 --> 00:52:28,271
We thought that this
had been put to bed.
771
00:52:28,273 --> 00:52:31,075
We thought those wheat
seeds had been destroyed.
772
00:52:31,077 --> 00:52:32,345
Apparently not.
773
00:52:37,048 --> 00:52:39,849
The Department of Agriculture
had told us don't worry,
774
00:52:39,851 --> 00:52:42,853
we can keep these
seed trials confined
775
00:52:42,855 --> 00:52:44,921
and time and time again
they have failed to do so,
776
00:52:44,923 --> 00:52:46,960
and they have escaped.
777
00:52:48,793 --> 00:52:51,360
Once you take that stuff
out of the laboratory,
778
00:52:51,362 --> 00:52:53,896
there's a thousand
things that can go wrong
779
00:52:53,898 --> 00:52:56,135
that lets that seed get away.
780
00:52:57,869 --> 00:53:00,104
As far as a duck can
fly, they eat seed,
781
00:53:00,106 --> 00:53:01,804
and they excrete that seed,
782
00:53:01,806 --> 00:53:05,108
and seed grows in place
where it wasn't intended.
783
00:53:05,110 --> 00:53:06,144
You can't pull it back.
784
00:53:06,146 --> 00:53:07,278
You can't put the
toothpaste back in the tube.
785
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:11,851
International wheat
markets shut down for months.
786
00:53:12,083 --> 00:53:15,853
That cost farmers hundreds
of millions of dollars.
787
00:53:15,855 --> 00:53:17,954
USDA opened an investigation.
788
00:53:17,956 --> 00:53:19,389
They've never been
able to discover
789
00:53:19,391 --> 00:53:21,124
how the genetically
engineered wheat
790
00:53:21,126 --> 00:53:23,295
got in the farmer's field.
791
00:53:25,764 --> 00:53:28,264
We're fooling with Mother
Nature in a way that,
792
00:53:28,266 --> 00:53:29,234
quite frankly,
793
00:53:30,869 --> 00:53:34,938
may end up not being
near as rosy of a panacea
794
00:53:34,940 --> 00:53:39,075
as these seed companies
want to point out.
795
00:53:39,077 --> 00:53:42,979
If our wheat is contaminated,
I'm out of business.
796
00:53:48,887 --> 00:53:49,820
In 1998,
797
00:53:49,822 --> 00:53:53,356
we were just beginning
harvesting canola
798
00:53:53,358 --> 00:53:55,360
in the middle of August.
799
00:54:00,132 --> 00:54:02,800
My neighbor had grown GMO canola
800
00:54:02,802 --> 00:54:05,371
and our fields
were contaminated.
801
00:54:06,838 --> 00:54:08,438
And a bus station phoned up
802
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,141
and I thought that's unusual
803
00:54:11,143 --> 00:54:14,177
and they said there's
a parcel here for you.
804
00:54:14,179 --> 00:54:16,947
Later on that evening, open it,
805
00:54:16,949 --> 00:54:19,449
here's a lawsuit from Monsanto,
806
00:54:19,451 --> 00:54:21,385
and I didn't think much of it!
807
00:54:21,387 --> 00:54:24,854
What's this patent infringement?
808
00:54:24,856 --> 00:54:26,557
Didn't even know what that was.
809
00:54:26,559 --> 00:54:28,891
Our family lawyer looked
at me and he says,
810
00:54:28,893 --> 00:54:30,526
"Percy, I think
you're in trouble."
811
00:54:30,528 --> 00:54:32,262
I said "What for?"
812
00:54:32,264 --> 00:54:33,396
Well, he said,
813
00:54:33,398 --> 00:54:36,200
"They're charging you that
you have their GMO seeds,"
814
00:54:36,202 --> 00:54:38,938
and I said, "What
are GMO seeds?"
815
00:54:43,208 --> 00:54:45,041
The judge's stated
that it does not matter
816
00:54:45,043 --> 00:54:46,242
how you're contaminated.
817
00:54:46,244 --> 00:54:49,979
You violate the patent and
you no longer own your seeds.
818
00:54:49,981 --> 00:54:54,318
That right should never be
taken away from a farmer.
819
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:55,952
You are taking seed
that has been there
820
00:54:55,954 --> 00:54:58,588
for thousands of years
and put a patent on it
821
00:54:58,590 --> 00:54:59,488
and say you own it.
822
00:54:59,490 --> 00:55:01,057
Basically it's robbery.
823
00:55:01,059 --> 00:55:04,894
To me, that's really a
violation of human rights.
824
00:55:04,896 --> 00:55:06,063
Henry Kissinger said
825
00:55:06,065 --> 00:55:07,998
"If you want to control the
country, control the oil,
826
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,499
"if you want to control the
people, control the food."
827
00:55:10,501 --> 00:55:12,436
Vandana Shiva says, "If you
want to control the food,
828
00:55:12,438 --> 00:55:13,304
"control the seed."
829
00:55:20,278 --> 00:55:23,347
When seed started to
become a patented product
830
00:55:23,349 --> 00:55:25,048
sold by corporations,
831
00:55:25,050 --> 00:55:27,153
you destroy seed freedom.
832
00:55:28,353 --> 00:55:32,655
When a company as powerful
as Monsanto enters a country,
833
00:55:32,657 --> 00:55:36,626
it starts to control that
country's decision making.
834
00:55:36,628 --> 00:55:40,130
Monsanto started to buy
up Indian seed companies.
835
00:55:40,132 --> 00:55:44,200
60 Indian companies can
only sell Monsanto seeds.
836
00:55:44,202 --> 00:55:48,373
The companies will take
video vans into the villages.
837
00:55:50,141 --> 00:55:52,675
They had every Indian epic.
838
00:55:52,677 --> 00:55:57,014
And they would, very
cleverly, sell the seeds.
839
00:55:57,016 --> 00:56:00,086
So Hanuman is carrying
white gold seeds
840
00:56:01,552 --> 00:56:03,019
of Monsanto.
841
00:56:03,021 --> 00:56:06,923
So when Hanuman comes as
a salesman of Monsanto,
842
00:56:06,925 --> 00:56:08,494
they believe in them.
843
00:56:10,396 --> 00:56:14,567
So that was the first trap
through which they took over.
844
00:56:15,934 --> 00:56:17,034
Then they also told the farmer
845
00:56:17,036 --> 00:56:20,137
"Why are you using these
old seeds? Sell them to us."
846
00:56:20,139 --> 00:56:22,472
A farmer has always had seed,
847
00:56:22,474 --> 00:56:23,472
and a farmer would say
848
00:56:23,474 --> 00:56:26,575
"Oh, they're giving me
some money for the seed.
849
00:56:26,577 --> 00:56:29,445
"I'll just get it from
my neighbor tomorrow."
850
00:56:29,447 --> 00:56:31,280
Not realizing the neighbor
has also been approached
851
00:56:31,282 --> 00:56:32,548
in the same way,
852
00:56:32,550 --> 00:56:34,650
and the next village,
and the next village.
853
00:56:34,652 --> 00:56:36,286
In one season,
854
00:56:36,288 --> 00:56:38,487
this thing they called
seed replacement
855
00:56:38,489 --> 00:56:42,160
has destroyed the entire
native seed supply.
856
00:56:43,728 --> 00:56:47,132
You have a seed
dictatorship established,
857
00:56:48,132 --> 00:56:50,636
then the farmer can't get out.
858
00:56:53,237 --> 00:56:57,340
Farmers will be forced to come
back to buy seed every year.
859
00:56:57,342 --> 00:57:01,411
We could have very,
very large scale famine.
860
00:57:01,413 --> 00:57:05,315
But unlike all famines of
the past, no resurrection,
861
00:57:05,317 --> 00:57:09,489
because every famine of the
past, seed was always there.
862
00:57:12,690 --> 00:57:17,062
This time's famine will
be based on a seed famine.
863
00:57:19,565 --> 00:57:23,599
What this free-trade
system has given us is
864
00:57:23,601 --> 00:57:25,769
instead of seed being "Of
the farmers, by the farmers,
865
00:57:25,771 --> 00:57:29,005
"for the farmers
and all citizens,"
866
00:57:29,007 --> 00:57:31,508
it is now seed "For
the corporations,
867
00:57:31,510 --> 00:57:33,642
"of the corporations".
868
00:57:33,644 --> 00:57:37,014
NAFTA will create the
world's largest trade zone,
869
00:57:37,016 --> 00:57:39,782
and create 200,00
jobs in this country.
870
00:57:39,784 --> 00:57:42,052
When NAFTA was introduced
871
00:57:42,054 --> 00:57:44,521
between United
States and Mexico,
872
00:57:44,523 --> 00:57:47,590
all of the sudden
the US was selling
873
00:57:47,592 --> 00:57:50,394
subsidized corn into Mexico
874
00:57:50,396 --> 00:57:54,063
that was below the cost
of production in Mexico,
875
00:57:54,065 --> 00:57:56,733
forcing a couple million
farmers off their land.
876
00:57:59,038 --> 00:58:02,541
We planted the seeds
of that migration.
877
00:58:06,478 --> 00:58:09,514
A lot of that corn is
contaminated with transgenics.
878
00:58:14,253 --> 00:58:18,423
We are destroying the basis
of the world's agriculture.
879
00:58:29,300 --> 00:58:31,434
Oaxaca is the region of Mexico
880
00:58:31,436 --> 00:58:34,706
where subsistence
agriculture holds on.
881
00:58:36,340 --> 00:58:40,512
The subsistence agriculture
is slowly being phased out.
882
00:58:43,815 --> 00:58:46,483
But if that agriculture is gone,
883
00:58:46,485 --> 00:58:48,721
we have lost that
resources for our future.
884
00:58:51,389 --> 00:58:54,126
Our diet has been our plants,
885
00:58:54,626 --> 00:58:55,728
our seeds,
886
00:58:56,260 --> 00:58:57,463
our fruits.
887
00:58:57,695 --> 00:59:01,333
Our challenge is to
preserve native seeds
888
00:59:01,766 --> 00:59:03,766
Otherwise it will
be very difficult
889
00:59:03,768 --> 00:59:06,635
for our communities to survive.
890
00:59:40,172 --> 00:59:43,305
Itanoni is a
doorway to the world
891
00:59:43,307 --> 00:59:47,380
of corn that exists in
the grandpa's villages.
892
00:59:57,155 --> 01:00:00,789
In Mexico the
traditional tortillerias
893
01:00:00,791 --> 01:00:02,427
are disappearing.
894
01:00:18,777 --> 01:00:23,115
I work with farmers to
create the market they need.
895
01:00:25,884 --> 01:00:27,851
When we have extra corn
896
01:00:27,853 --> 01:00:31,557
we sell to the
restaurant Itanoni.
897
01:00:33,759 --> 01:00:37,762
We're getting famous
because of the corn.
898
01:00:39,864 --> 01:00:42,898
This treasure
can only be preserved
899
01:00:42,900 --> 01:00:44,402
by reproducing it.
900
01:00:54,313 --> 01:00:56,148
My name is Suman Khulko.
901
01:00:56,949 --> 01:01:00,887
I live in a small village
of Ranchi in Eastern India.
902
01:01:07,759 --> 01:01:09,829
I am the only daughter.
903
01:01:11,963 --> 01:01:14,567
My father is handicapped.
904
01:01:18,570 --> 01:01:19,772
When I was young
905
01:01:20,806 --> 01:01:24,907
my grandparents had passed away.
906
01:01:24,909 --> 01:01:28,813
I would visit a wise
woman who was blind.
907
01:01:32,784 --> 01:01:35,721
She taught me about
traditional seeds,
908
01:01:40,324 --> 01:01:42,928
so I started collecting seeds.
909
01:01:45,731 --> 01:01:49,468
My mother had no
interest in saving seeds,
910
01:01:52,304 --> 01:01:56,474
so I would hide the
seeds from my mother.
911
01:01:59,978 --> 01:02:03,412
We were told if
we used chemicals
912
01:02:03,414 --> 01:02:06,451
our farming would be better.
913
01:02:08,719 --> 01:02:12,655
My brother saw farmers
using chemicals
914
01:02:12,657 --> 01:02:15,293
and making more money.
915
01:02:17,429 --> 01:02:20,833
He said to me, "We will
do chemical farming."
916
01:02:24,568 --> 01:02:27,806
I said, "Don't use chemicals."
917
01:02:29,875 --> 01:02:33,846
But he didn't listen.
918
01:02:35,713 --> 01:02:37,983
Our family will drown in debt.
919
01:02:42,554 --> 01:02:46,726
It hurt to the core of my heart.
920
01:02:51,429 --> 01:02:53,896
My uncle took a
loan from the bank,
921
01:02:53,898 --> 01:02:55,898
bought seeds,
922
01:02:55,900 --> 01:02:57,802
and planted them.
923
01:03:04,809 --> 01:03:07,846
The rains did not come.
924
01:03:13,018 --> 01:03:15,751
His mind stopped working.
925
01:03:15,753 --> 01:03:17,789
He went completely mad.
926
01:03:22,927 --> 01:03:25,762
He committed suicide
927
01:03:25,764 --> 01:03:29,934
by drinking the
chemical pesticide.
928
01:03:33,003 --> 01:03:36,541
When I heard what my uncle did,
929
01:03:37,842 --> 01:03:41,780
I started thinking
of my brother.
930
01:03:46,851 --> 01:03:49,621
We are
short on money.
931
01:03:50,755 --> 01:03:53,458
How will we arrange
for this money?
932
01:03:53,657 --> 01:03:57,829
Our hybrid seeds got
a fungus disease.
933
01:04:00,164 --> 01:04:03,469
These hybrid seeds are
not useful for next year.
934
01:04:07,505 --> 01:04:11,676
We have lost
270,000 farmers to suicide.
935
01:04:38,869 --> 01:04:41,737
Pioneer Dupont
and DOW chemical,
936
01:04:41,739 --> 01:04:44,409
they have all the acreage leased
937
01:04:47,846 --> 01:04:50,512
all the way up
from the mountains,
938
01:04:50,514 --> 01:04:52,817
all the way down to the ocean,
939
01:04:54,853 --> 01:04:59,023
and this is where all the
experimentation goes on.
940
01:05:02,561 --> 01:05:03,896
This is the dust
941
01:05:05,496 --> 01:05:09,033
that's blowing in the fields.
942
01:05:12,204 --> 01:05:15,975
It blows over the cliffs
and into our homes
943
01:05:23,547 --> 01:05:25,717
and we breathe this stuff.
944
01:05:42,967 --> 01:05:46,769
The neighborhood is filled with
people who have passed away
945
01:05:46,771 --> 01:05:48,673
of some form of cancer.
946
01:05:49,940 --> 01:05:52,877
So many people back
here have died.
947
01:05:54,945 --> 01:05:58,951
My wife, she got breast
cancer. She almost died.
948
01:06:01,186 --> 01:06:05,591
We just could not gamble with
her life. She had to leave.
949
01:06:09,027 --> 01:06:12,498
Then I started getting
worse and worse.
950
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:17,036
I would gasp for air.
951
01:06:21,672 --> 01:06:24,809
If I stay here much
longer, I might die.
952
01:06:30,782 --> 01:06:31,817
I have to move.
953
01:06:36,788 --> 01:06:39,923
I'm getting weaker and
weaker and I can feel it,
954
01:06:39,925 --> 01:06:42,695
that's the warning sign for me.
955
01:06:44,262 --> 01:06:46,762
These chemical
corporations occupy lands
956
01:06:46,764 --> 01:06:50,935
that are considered very
sacred to native Hawaiians.
957
01:06:53,938 --> 01:06:58,109
Our land, our aina, and
everything that comes from it,
958
01:07:00,344 --> 01:07:02,080
that is our ancestor.
959
01:07:03,782 --> 01:07:05,815
As a native
Hawaiian, it's, well,
960
01:07:05,817 --> 01:07:08,985
it's a disgrace to our culture.
961
01:07:08,987 --> 01:07:11,820
There really will be nothing
left for our children
962
01:07:11,822 --> 01:07:14,792
if no one is
willing to speak up.
963
01:07:22,132 --> 01:07:25,300
The future of Hawaii
is all at stake.
964
01:07:25,302 --> 01:07:28,706
Everything I love
is being threatened.
965
01:07:36,246 --> 01:07:39,083
I'm fighting for
the whole island.
966
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:44,756
Say something, or die.
967
01:07:53,264 --> 01:07:57,635
Six thousand people, there out
of the love in their heart.
968
01:07:57,902 --> 01:08:01,941
For our children, for
our land, for our ocean.
969
01:08:06,811 --> 01:08:09,045
I met with the
chemical companies.
970
01:08:09,047 --> 01:08:10,112
They would say
971
01:08:10,114 --> 01:08:12,115
"No, we are not experimenting
with pesticides."
972
01:08:12,117 --> 01:08:13,749
And they would tell
me, "This is safe,
973
01:08:13,751 --> 01:08:15,684
"there's nothing wrong
with this stuff."
974
01:08:15,686 --> 01:08:17,653
Could you tell me
what you are spraying?
975
01:08:17,655 --> 01:08:19,992
And they refused to tell me.
976
01:08:20,958 --> 01:08:23,259
The more these companies
would lie to me,
977
01:08:23,261 --> 01:08:24,861
I had to do something.
978
01:08:24,863 --> 01:08:27,996
And that's when we started
piecing Bill 2491 together.
979
01:08:27,998 --> 01:08:29,801
To get disclosure.
980
01:08:30,969 --> 01:08:32,300
Could any of you disclose to me
981
01:08:32,302 --> 01:08:35,004
the amount of general used
pesticide that you use
982
01:08:35,006 --> 01:08:36,775
on an annual basis?
983
01:08:38,976 --> 01:08:41,811
With all due respect, I
asked you an hour ago,
984
01:08:41,813 --> 01:08:44,013
if you would tell me today
985
01:08:44,015 --> 01:08:46,982
how much general use
pesticide you are using
986
01:08:46,984 --> 01:08:49,822
and you said no
with your silence.
987
01:08:50,954 --> 01:08:54,924
I would say that I don't
think I would want to comply
988
01:08:54,926 --> 01:08:56,395
with the bill as is.
989
01:08:57,929 --> 01:08:59,728
My second son
here, Pa' akatanao,
990
01:08:59,730 --> 01:09:02,898
was born with an extremely
rare heart defect.
991
01:09:02,900 --> 01:09:04,800
Because our son was dying,
992
01:09:04,802 --> 01:09:07,303
his heart unable to pump his
own blood through his body
993
01:09:07,305 --> 01:09:09,906
and endured nine surgeries
during those months.
994
01:09:09,908 --> 01:09:11,907
All I know is that
while pregnant,
995
01:09:11,909 --> 01:09:16,081
I took every precaution to grow
a healthy baby inside of me.
996
01:09:17,114 --> 01:09:18,313
By not passing this bill,
997
01:09:18,315 --> 01:09:20,982
you are telling me that I
don't have the right to know.
998
01:09:20,984 --> 01:09:22,050
If I had known,
999
01:09:22,052 --> 01:09:24,320
I would have chosen to
not expose my unborn child
1000
01:09:24,322 --> 01:09:28,391
as I innocently worked day
in and day out in Kai'kaha.
1001
01:09:28,393 --> 01:09:29,491
If I seem a little emotional,
1002
01:09:29,493 --> 01:09:33,865
it's because it
really hits home to me
1003
01:09:34,733 --> 01:09:37,302
speaking on behalf
of unborn son.
1004
01:09:39,136 --> 01:09:42,004
My son has a condition
called gastroschisis,
1005
01:09:42,006 --> 01:09:45,144
basically the stomach
is on the outside.
1006
01:09:46,043 --> 01:09:49,978
I don't blame anybody but I
just want to stop the poisoning!
1007
01:09:49,980 --> 01:09:50,812
I have a baby in the world
1008
01:09:50,814 --> 01:09:53,014
that has to get cut
open right away.
1009
01:09:53,016 --> 01:09:54,116
Consider this,
1010
01:09:54,118 --> 01:09:57,320
that something might be
wrong on this island, 'kay?
1011
01:09:57,322 --> 01:10:01,694
Something might be wrong 'cause
children don't deserve this.
1012
01:10:06,296 --> 01:10:09,298
The trust is gone
for these companies.
1013
01:10:09,300 --> 01:10:11,003
The trust is gone.
1014
01:10:12,470 --> 01:10:14,402
And I don't know how they are
going to gain the trust back,
1015
01:10:14,404 --> 01:10:15,838
other than backing this bill
1016
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:19,375
and working with
the communities, you
1017
01:10:19,377 --> 01:10:22,245
And you know, like
I said before,
1018
01:10:22,247 --> 01:10:26,418
It's time to put human
health over corporate wealth.
1019
01:10:36,226 --> 01:10:38,527
They are suing
the county of Kauai
1020
01:10:38,529 --> 01:10:41,296
for the right to spray
poisons next to schools,
1021
01:10:41,298 --> 01:10:45,470
and these are the largest
companies in the world.
1022
01:10:45,869 --> 01:10:48,506
So we're gonna
have a huge battle.
1023
01:10:49,873 --> 01:10:54,045
OMG, GMO,
people have the right to know!
1024
01:10:54,244 --> 01:10:57,750
OMG, GMO, people have
the right to know!
1025
01:10:58,515 --> 01:11:00,883
OMG, GMO, people have
the right to know!
1026
01:11:00,885 --> 01:11:03,018
This is a historic battle.
1027
01:11:03,020 --> 01:11:06,991
They're fighting for a profit,
we're fighting for our lives,
1028
01:11:09,894 --> 01:11:13,865
and those who fight for
their lives do not give up,
1029
01:11:14,431 --> 01:11:16,965
do not let down, never say no.
1030
01:11:16,967 --> 01:11:18,201
GMO has got to go
1031
01:11:18,203 --> 01:11:20,169
because we need to know!
1032
01:11:20,171 --> 01:11:21,603
GMO has got to go!
1033
01:11:21,605 --> 01:11:25,141
No one said give
me GM food, anywhere.
1034
01:11:25,143 --> 01:11:27,943
This has never been voted
for by any community
1035
01:11:27,945 --> 01:11:29,946
anywhere in the world.
1036
01:11:29,948 --> 01:11:32,848
The reason Americans are
being condemned to eat GM food
1037
01:11:32,850 --> 01:11:34,217
is they've been denied
the right to know.
1038
01:11:44,895 --> 01:11:47,996
64 countries around the world
have some form of labeling
1039
01:11:47,998 --> 01:11:50,066
of genetically engineered foods.
1040
01:11:50,068 --> 01:11:52,401
The United States does not.
1041
01:11:52,403 --> 01:11:53,969
Monsanto and the other companies
1042
01:11:53,971 --> 01:11:55,504
are so frightened of labeling
1043
01:11:55,506 --> 01:11:57,373
because once people
have a choice,
1044
01:11:57,375 --> 01:11:58,374
why would they choose a product
1045
01:11:58,376 --> 01:12:00,977
that only offers them
risks and no benefits?
1046
01:12:12,556 --> 01:12:14,960
I started Navdanya in 1987.
1047
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:19,928
I named it Navdanya
which means nine seeds,
1048
01:12:19,930 --> 01:12:22,999
but also means the new gift.
1049
01:12:23,001 --> 01:12:26,238
Oh look at the birds.
Going above you.
1050
01:12:33,344 --> 01:12:35,948
I took inspiration from Gandhi.
1051
01:12:37,047 --> 01:12:39,682
Gandhi had dealt with
a smaller imperialism
1052
01:12:39,684 --> 01:12:43,018
of the British by taking
out the spinning wheel.
1053
01:12:43,020 --> 01:12:46,656
He said "We will be free,
we will spin our own cloth."
1054
01:12:46,658 --> 01:12:49,962
And I said we will
save our own seed.
1055
01:12:51,061 --> 01:12:55,166
The seed will be the
spinning wheel of our times.
1056
01:12:58,036 --> 01:13:02,207
When I heard these companies
talk about patenting seed.
1057
01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:04,876
We will refuse to obey laws
1058
01:13:05,643 --> 01:13:09,577
that force us to accept
GMOs and patents.
1059
01:13:09,579 --> 01:13:12,113
We have launched a
campaign this year
1060
01:13:12,115 --> 01:13:14,683
for a global alliance
for seed freedom.
1061
01:13:14,685 --> 01:13:17,954
We need to protect the
diversity, integrity,
1062
01:13:17,956 --> 01:13:19,423
and freedom of life.
1063
01:13:20,324 --> 01:13:22,223
Give seed its own freedom
1064
01:13:22,225 --> 01:13:25,294
so that we as humans
can have our freedom
1065
01:13:25,296 --> 01:13:27,629
and the work we do for Navdanya
1066
01:13:27,631 --> 01:13:30,665
is to encourage farmers to
grow enough for themselves,
1067
01:13:30,667 --> 01:13:32,434
to bring respect back
for their own seed,
1068
01:13:32,436 --> 01:13:33,736
for their own farming.
1069
01:13:33,738 --> 01:13:36,504
O Mother Earth,
my respects for you.
1070
01:13:36,506 --> 01:13:39,377
You have provided us
food. Hail Mother Earth.
1071
01:13:40,478 --> 01:13:42,178
Our community seed banks
1072
01:13:42,180 --> 01:13:46,048
are both the networks
of the farmers
1073
01:13:46,050 --> 01:13:49,317
as well as the
distribution network
1074
01:13:49,319 --> 01:13:52,390
for moving seed
wherever it's needed.
1075
01:13:54,458 --> 01:13:58,626
More than 110 community
seed banks have started.
1076
01:13:58,628 --> 01:14:02,630
If there's a drought, getting
drought-resistant seed.
1077
01:14:02,632 --> 01:14:07,003
If there's a flood, getting
flood-resistant seed.
1078
01:14:07,005 --> 01:14:09,604
So these are seeds of hope.
1079
01:14:09,606 --> 01:14:13,545
These are seeds that do
not lock you into debt.
1080
01:14:15,078 --> 01:14:19,014
And we are training the young
people to spread seed saving.
1081
01:14:19,016 --> 01:14:23,251
Because that freedom is tied-up
to our duty to the planet
1082
01:14:23,253 --> 01:14:25,524
and our duty to the future.
1083
01:14:26,591 --> 01:14:29,594
I found out about Navdanya
on the way to school.
1084
01:14:31,295 --> 01:14:34,699
Vandana Shiva was talking
about organic farming.
1085
01:14:35,666 --> 01:14:38,203
I then came to Navdanya,
1086
01:14:40,203 --> 01:14:43,708
I learned how I can
make our farming better.
1087
01:14:44,675 --> 01:14:47,643
So it will be beneficial for us
1088
01:14:47,645 --> 01:14:50,215
and be healthy for us.
1089
01:14:51,716 --> 01:14:52,882
For the farmer,
1090
01:14:52,884 --> 01:14:56,751
they're going to honor the
land and make it beautiful,
1091
01:14:56,753 --> 01:15:00,423
and you can only make it
beautiful through biodiversity,
1092
01:15:00,425 --> 01:15:03,224
and only when we have
the seeds of biodiversity
1093
01:15:03,226 --> 01:15:04,826
will the landscape be beautiful.
1094
01:15:20,811 --> 01:15:23,812
Y'know, there's that Garth
Brook's song "The Rodeo".
1095
01:15:23,814 --> 01:15:24,781
Well for me,
1096
01:15:24,783 --> 01:15:26,449
the rodeo is going out
into the wilderness
1097
01:15:26,451 --> 01:15:28,284
and finding things to eat.
1098
01:15:28,286 --> 01:15:31,387
It's like an obsession
that never ends.
1099
01:15:31,389 --> 01:15:33,089
Big, huge treasure hunt.
1100
01:15:35,426 --> 01:15:37,860
When people say "How do
we feed a hungry world?"
1101
01:15:37,862 --> 01:15:40,396
What about the wild things?
1102
01:15:40,398 --> 01:15:42,197
The devil's claw.
1103
01:15:42,199 --> 01:15:44,603
We don't wanna get the sap.
1104
01:15:49,273 --> 01:15:51,743
Holy Moly! This is a male plant!
1105
01:15:52,810 --> 01:15:55,811
So this baby is
pollinating somebody else,
1106
01:15:55,813 --> 01:15:58,848
let's see who it's pollinating!
1107
01:15:58,850 --> 01:16:02,218
Look at the little nara melons!
1108
01:16:02,220 --> 01:16:05,724
Look at them! I've
never seen them before!
1109
01:16:06,657 --> 01:16:08,757
I've been waiting
to get these seeds
1110
01:16:08,759 --> 01:16:10,796
for probably 15 years.
1111
01:16:11,796 --> 01:16:13,795
And you would not imagine
that this would grow out
1112
01:16:13,797 --> 01:16:14,765
in the desert.
1113
01:16:16,333 --> 01:16:18,901
We get just a few of these
growing in a few places,
1114
01:16:18,903 --> 01:16:21,870
it won't be but a couple of
years and the people themselves
1115
01:16:21,872 --> 01:16:23,772
will be able to start
growing their own.
1116
01:16:23,774 --> 01:16:26,541
So a seed in this case
is extremely precious.
1117
01:16:26,543 --> 01:16:29,178
And what does that mean,
it's worth as much as gold.
1118
01:16:29,180 --> 01:16:31,246
You get up there and rub and
I am going to hold this tight.
1119
01:16:31,248 --> 01:16:32,751
Get up and rub it.
1120
01:16:35,418 --> 01:16:36,818
You let the wind catch it.
1121
01:16:36,820 --> 01:16:38,786
We're getting them out though.
1122
01:16:38,788 --> 01:16:39,791
We did good.
1123
01:16:43,426 --> 01:16:47,598
Acanthosicyos naudinianus, it's
called the gemsbok cucumber,
1124
01:16:47,832 --> 01:16:50,866
and these are one of the
treasures of the desert.
1125
01:16:50,868 --> 01:16:51,700
It should be edible.
1126
01:16:51,702 --> 01:16:52,735
Now if they are green,
1127
01:16:52,737 --> 01:16:55,737
what I've heard is they're
gonna burn the crap
1128
01:16:55,739 --> 01:16:57,339
out of your mouth.
1129
01:16:57,341 --> 01:17:01,445
You gonna try the first
one? Do we have a spoon?
1130
01:17:03,247 --> 01:17:05,481
- Oh look at that.
- Okay.
1131
01:17:05,483 --> 01:17:06,182
Sweet?
1132
01:17:06,184 --> 01:17:07,215
What's it taste like?
1133
01:17:07,217 --> 01:17:08,483
Tastes terrible.
1134
01:17:08,485 --> 01:17:09,317
Does it taste bad?
1135
01:17:09,319 --> 01:17:12,521
Yeah.
1136
01:17:20,765 --> 01:17:22,897
So, they're cooking them.
1137
01:17:22,899 --> 01:17:25,901
That gets rid of
the hotness in it.
1138
01:17:25,903 --> 01:17:28,437
You gotta poke a hole in
them so they don't explode.
1139
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:29,508
Look at that!
1140
01:17:37,448 --> 01:17:39,481
They're the original
botanists, aren't they?
1141
01:17:39,483 --> 01:17:40,315
I'm nothing,
1142
01:17:40,317 --> 01:17:41,683
all I'm doing is
learning it in books
1143
01:17:41,685 --> 01:17:42,884
and wanting to find out about it
1144
01:17:42,886 --> 01:17:46,423
but they're knowing
everything about it.
1145
01:17:54,564 --> 01:17:57,833
It's bigger than
he said probably
1146
01:17:57,835 --> 01:18:01,769
It's a group effort
digging up this monster.
1147
01:18:01,771 --> 01:18:03,705
- Unbelievable.
- It's incredible.
1148
01:18:07,778 --> 01:18:09,844
This is the
incredible marama bean,
1149
01:18:09,846 --> 01:18:12,615
Produces tubers
up to 500 pounds.
1150
01:18:12,617 --> 01:18:13,749
About ten pounds?
1151
01:18:13,751 --> 01:18:16,652
It is a future potential crop
1152
01:18:16,654 --> 01:18:19,821
unlike any other on the planet.
1153
01:18:19,823 --> 01:18:21,924
And how many other beans
do you know produce
1154
01:18:21,926 --> 01:18:24,492
a giant, giant sweet potato?
1155
01:18:24,494 --> 01:18:27,896
How many others
produce a giant cashew,
1156
01:18:27,898 --> 01:18:29,932
macadamia sized nut?
1157
01:18:29,934 --> 01:18:31,799
This is an amazing plant.
1158
01:18:33,002 --> 01:18:36,907
The people in the Kalahari
depend upon this for survival.
1159
01:18:38,743 --> 01:18:42,713
It doesn't need water for 3
years and it can still survive.
1160
01:18:46,783 --> 01:18:49,718
You can go back eons and be
like a hunter walking out here
1161
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:53,458
when he was just surviving
with the elements.
1162
01:18:58,863 --> 01:19:02,833
Strange thing to get impressed
with but I'm impressed.
1163
01:19:04,902 --> 01:19:07,369
We do have a beautiful world,
1164
01:19:07,371 --> 01:19:08,736
and something like this to me
1165
01:19:08,738 --> 01:19:12,473
is just a marvel the
planet we live on.
1166
01:19:21,952 --> 01:19:23,785
I don't suppose anyone's
up for the Merry Dwarves
1167
01:19:23,787 --> 01:19:24,853
are they?
1168
01:19:24,855 --> 01:19:26,821
We could try I suppose.
There's enough of us!
1169
01:19:26,823 --> 01:19:28,389
I don't know, okay.
1170
01:19:28,391 --> 01:19:30,795
Hi Ho cried the Merry Dwarfs.
1171
01:19:31,761 --> 01:19:33,861
And then bump, bump.
1172
01:19:33,863 --> 01:19:35,863
The timing is all important,
just like with seed saving.
1173
01:19:35,865 --> 01:19:36,932
Time is a big deal.
1174
01:19:36,934 --> 01:19:38,400
Alright, let's hear it now.
1175
01:19:38,402 --> 01:19:39,837
High ho
1176
01:19:40,704 --> 01:19:43,375
cried the merry dwarfs, dum dum.
1177
01:19:44,041 --> 01:19:47,076
It's off to the
woods we, dum, are.
1178
01:19:47,078 --> 01:19:50,912
We like to stay but
time is, dum dum, short.
1179
01:19:50,914 --> 01:19:53,350
I hope like the merry dwarfs.
1180
01:19:58,521 --> 01:20:00,789
Magnificent,
Magnificent, that was it!
1181
01:20:00,791 --> 01:20:02,124
You did it, right off like that!
1182
01:20:02,126 --> 01:20:03,058
Woo! Okay!
1183
01:20:05,895 --> 01:20:07,731
Saving seeds is a gas.
1184
01:20:13,404 --> 01:20:15,838
Seed saving is all about sex.
1185
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:17,805
And humans are all
obsessed with sex,
1186
01:20:17,807 --> 01:20:19,778
even if it's rutabaga sex.
1187
01:20:21,845 --> 01:20:23,879
You can hire someone to
come fix your plumbing.
1188
01:20:23,881 --> 01:20:26,147
I'm sure we know for a fact
that you can hire someone
1189
01:20:26,149 --> 01:20:27,849
to make love to your
spouse, for example,
1190
01:20:27,851 --> 01:20:30,419
and they'll sure as hell do
a better job than you will,
1191
01:20:30,421 --> 01:20:32,521
but no somehow we feel like,
1192
01:20:32,523 --> 01:20:34,089
"Nah, I really want
to do that myself."
1193
01:20:34,091 --> 01:20:37,028
Some things are
just too important.
1194
01:20:37,927 --> 01:20:42,099
This is right up there with
making love to your spouse.
1195
01:20:53,577 --> 01:20:57,912
So this is the office where
all my stuff is stored.
1196
01:20:57,914 --> 01:20:58,848
I don't know quite
how many thousands
1197
01:20:58,850 --> 01:21:01,849
of varieties and samples
of seeds are here.
1198
01:21:01,851 --> 01:21:02,817
This is a horrible mess.
1199
01:21:02,819 --> 01:21:05,053
Uh, this is about as
good as it gets here.
1200
01:21:05,055 --> 01:21:06,287
I live in chaos
1201
01:21:06,289 --> 01:21:09,124
and this room is one of the
more chaotic parts of the house.
1202
01:21:09,126 --> 01:21:13,498
All of these boxes on top
are waiting to get refiled.
1203
01:21:15,466 --> 01:21:16,632
I never can seem to get enough.
1204
01:21:16,634 --> 01:21:17,866
I've tried to level
off in recent years
1205
01:21:17,868 --> 01:21:18,834
to something that I can handle.
1206
01:21:18,836 --> 01:21:20,771
Rutabagas, over here.
1207
01:21:23,873 --> 01:21:26,541
Sometimes thought that if the
house were to catch on fire
1208
01:21:26,543 --> 01:21:29,143
and I had to do something
very, very quickly,
1209
01:21:29,145 --> 01:21:30,778
hopefully I would
first make sure
1210
01:21:30,780 --> 01:21:33,182
that all the family
were all safely out,
1211
01:21:33,184 --> 01:21:34,183
but somehow, deep inside,
1212
01:21:34,185 --> 01:21:35,951
I'm afraid that I would
probably rush in here,
1213
01:21:35,953 --> 01:21:37,085
smash out the windows and
1214
01:21:37,087 --> 01:21:40,088
start throwing boxes of
seeds out to the firefighters
1215
01:21:40,090 --> 01:21:41,790
and hope that they understood
what to do with them,
1216
01:21:41,792 --> 01:21:45,096
don't turn the hoses
on them or something.
1217
01:21:51,868 --> 01:21:55,806
I have sweat a lot over
the things that I lose.
1218
01:21:57,240 --> 01:22:01,613
No one in the future can save
them, they'll already be lost.
1219
01:22:02,912 --> 01:22:07,084
I see no end, no end in sight,
except when I am cremated.
1220
01:22:08,051 --> 01:22:12,423
That concerns me sometimes,
who will take this over.
1221
01:22:26,936 --> 01:22:30,041
It took six years
to save seeds.
1222
01:22:31,876 --> 01:22:34,445
I have to cultivate the
entire farm organically.
1223
01:22:36,079 --> 01:22:39,117
I said to my brother,
1224
01:22:39,949 --> 01:22:42,851
we need to save our
traditional seeds.
1225
01:22:42,853 --> 01:22:45,957
I was overjoyed when
my brother agreed.
1226
01:22:53,697 --> 01:22:55,863
I felt so happy,
1227
01:22:55,865 --> 01:23:00,003
my family agreed to
do organic farming.
1228
01:23:11,314 --> 01:23:15,018
Whatever I have learned,
1229
01:23:15,953 --> 01:23:19,257
I want to spread that
in my entire region.
1230
01:23:21,859 --> 01:23:25,797
Suman emerged as a leader.
1231
01:23:27,297 --> 01:23:30,197
She came forward for
this noble purpose
1232
01:23:30,199 --> 01:23:33,570
to serve her community.
1233
01:23:34,738 --> 01:23:36,871
If another farmer
does not have the seed
1234
01:23:36,873 --> 01:23:39,510
then I can give it to him.
1235
01:23:39,810 --> 01:23:43,044
We can help each
other with our seeds.
1236
01:24:06,837 --> 01:24:10,938
Jack and the beanstalk
is a true story!
1237
01:24:10,940 --> 01:24:12,007
The idea we all laughed at,
1238
01:24:12,009 --> 01:24:15,177
that he would trade his
pig or his cow or whatever
1239
01:24:15,179 --> 01:24:16,812
for a handful of beans is like,
1240
01:24:16,814 --> 01:24:18,714
what a silly thing is that.
1241
01:24:18,716 --> 01:24:21,349
But if you think
about the potential
1242
01:24:21,351 --> 01:24:23,619
of the self replicating system
1243
01:24:23,621 --> 01:24:26,821
that's in your hand and what
it can potentially produce.
1244
01:24:26,823 --> 01:24:29,391
We should all trade
in everything we have
1245
01:24:29,393 --> 01:24:31,328
for a handful of beans.
1246
01:24:33,796 --> 01:24:38,133
One of our fairytales is
actually trying to teach us
1247
01:24:38,135 --> 01:24:41,268
that's unbelievably important.
1248
01:25:15,838 --> 01:25:17,973
I woke up one night about
three o'clock in the morning,
1249
01:25:17,975 --> 01:25:19,241
I sat up straight
in my bed and I went
1250
01:25:19,243 --> 01:25:22,914
"Ah seed school! We
gotta teach this stuff."
1251
01:25:24,014 --> 01:25:27,715
We got to open up a space
and teach them what we know,
1252
01:25:27,717 --> 01:25:30,887
to having this
resilient fabric again.
1253
01:25:32,189 --> 01:25:36,360
I'm going back to the 10,000
year old way of doing it.
1254
01:25:43,167 --> 01:25:45,870
To have everybody, everywhere,
1255
01:25:47,337 --> 01:25:51,205
saving and storing and
sharing their own seeds
1256
01:25:51,207 --> 01:25:54,878
regionally, the way it
always has been done.
1257
01:25:59,483 --> 01:26:01,482
When we teach about seeds,
1258
01:26:01,484 --> 01:26:04,986
we rewrite ourselves back
into that evolutionary dance
1259
01:26:04,988 --> 01:26:07,155
between plants and humans.
1260
01:26:07,157 --> 01:26:10,258
We initiate a whole new
generation of people
1261
01:26:10,260 --> 01:26:11,963
who care for life.
1262
01:26:13,096 --> 01:26:16,867
It's the seeds asking
to be spoken for again.
1263
01:26:18,268 --> 01:26:19,968
As a Mohawk woman,
1264
01:26:19,970 --> 01:26:23,905
seeds embody the sense
of hope for the future
1265
01:26:23,907 --> 01:26:27,008
that we could create
something different,
1266
01:26:27,010 --> 01:26:29,945
a new paradigm for our children.
1267
01:26:29,947 --> 01:26:33,514
We have to make that
promise to the corn,
1268
01:26:33,516 --> 01:26:36,384
that we will nourish
ourselves from it
1269
01:26:36,386 --> 01:26:38,823
but we will also give back.
1270
01:26:51,534 --> 01:26:53,067
All of these seeds,
1271
01:26:53,069 --> 01:26:55,172
they are going to
move to his new house.
1272
01:26:58,908 --> 01:27:03,245
We have the, I would say, the
blessing of the great spirit,
1273
01:27:03,247 --> 01:27:04,812
of the mother earth.
1274
01:27:04,814 --> 01:27:07,949
All the protectors and
the spirits of this land
1275
01:27:07,951 --> 01:27:10,885
and they say you guys have
to finish the seed bank.
1276
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:20,861
We beginning to make the
impact on our pueblo,
1277
01:27:20,863 --> 01:27:22,299
in our community.
1278
01:27:24,368 --> 01:27:28,740
Stone by stone, mud by
mud we have this building.
1279
01:27:35,345 --> 01:27:38,115
All these seeds
they have memory.
1280
01:27:39,149 --> 01:27:41,183
They happy in this moment.
1281
01:27:46,856 --> 01:27:49,290
The seed bank, it
represents life.
1282
01:28:08,545 --> 01:28:11,213
Those young men and women
are carrying on a tradition
1283
01:28:11,215 --> 01:28:12,947
of our community.
1284
01:28:12,949 --> 01:28:17,121
And I see the young people
happy and the corn is happy,
1285
01:28:18,055 --> 01:28:21,993
the birds are happy,
because that's who we are.
1286
01:28:30,868 --> 01:28:34,468
We grow a really
great variety of squash.
1287
01:28:34,470 --> 01:28:37,205
Archaeologists dug down and
they came upon a clay ball
1288
01:28:37,207 --> 01:28:39,007
that was about this big.
1289
01:28:39,009 --> 01:28:39,942
And in that clay ball,
1290
01:28:39,944 --> 01:28:41,509
they shook it and
they heard something.
1291
01:28:41,511 --> 01:28:45,546
They cracked it open and
it was a squash seed.
1292
01:28:45,548 --> 01:28:48,450
They carbon dated
it 800 years old.
1293
01:28:48,452 --> 01:28:49,651
And I always laugh
1294
01:28:49,653 --> 01:28:52,987
because I say white guys get
to name things all the time.
1295
01:28:52,989 --> 01:28:56,424
So I'm gonna name this one
and I call it Gete-Okosomin,
1296
01:28:56,426 --> 01:28:59,027
which means really
cool old squash.
1297
01:29:05,002 --> 01:29:08,372
It's time for us to
take back that manna.
1298
01:29:09,472 --> 01:29:13,845
It's so important to get
back to our food source.
1299
01:29:14,043 --> 01:29:17,978
Take back that ability
to self-sustain
1300
01:29:17,980 --> 01:29:19,951
as our ancestors once did.
1301
01:29:22,953 --> 01:29:27,124
This food forest here,
could feed hundreds of people.
1302
01:29:32,996 --> 01:29:36,964
We could be the self-sustainable
epicenter of the world
1303
01:29:36,966 --> 01:29:38,066
and there's no
reason we can't be,
1304
01:29:38,068 --> 01:29:42,206
we can grow any fruit or
vegetable on these islands.
1305
01:29:45,141 --> 01:29:47,878
We planted 21
banana trees today,
1306
01:29:50,146 --> 01:29:54,318
as a team as a family, we
can accomplish anything.
1307
01:30:00,289 --> 01:30:02,357
And we went from
this much diversity,
1308
01:30:02,359 --> 01:30:04,159
took 10,000 years to create,
1309
01:30:04,161 --> 01:30:07,027
down to this pinch with
only four percent left,
1310
01:30:07,029 --> 01:30:09,063
and we're right here.
1311
01:30:09,065 --> 01:30:09,897
Right?
1312
01:30:09,899 --> 01:30:10,999
And so we're gonna,
we're waking up.
1313
01:30:11,001 --> 01:30:12,570
We're gonna do this
1314
01:30:14,136 --> 01:30:17,237
it's knowing that in
each individual seed
1315
01:30:17,239 --> 01:30:19,074
is the potential to
change it all back.
1316
01:30:52,623 --> 01:30:57,623
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