The documentary The World According to Monsanto, by French journalist Marie-Monique Robin has finally been subtitled in Portuguese on YouTube. It is divided into 12 chapters. If you are serious about finding out what is behind the genetic engineering applied to food you need to see this video.

Robin is now working on uncovering the relationship between agricultural industrialization and the rising number of cancer cases in the world, according to an interview she gave to Epoca magazine. We’ve known for a while that industrialized food is equal to packaged garbage. The issue now is the extent to which this is harming our health. For instance, a feature published by Estadão on Tuesday, reports that we are poisoning our kids with too much fat, salt and sugars.

Transgenics are just a part of the problem. The main issue is the carelessness of the industry – and of a good portion of consumers – about something as fundamental as the food we eat every day. We should always know what we are eating, what it can do to our bodies, the side effects, and so forth. But to do this, the food industry needs to be honest with us, which is something that doesn’t happen. They only act when pressured by consumers and/or by the Law – when they do act. But we are here to pester them until they get their act together and change their current business paradigm, aren’t we?

Anyway, on to the film. Click to watch on YouTube.

Read this post at O Escriba Blog: The World According to Monsanto, now with subtitles at YouTube