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SB-63 passed the State Legislature. But Governor Schwarzenegger then vetoed it. Eric Schlosser:
These companies fight, tooth and nail, against labeling. The fast food industry fought against giving you the calorie information. They fought against telling you if there is trans-fat in your food. The meat packing idustry for years prevented country-of-origin labeling. They fought not to label genetically modified foods; and now 70% of processed food in the supermarket has some genetically modified ingredient
SB-63 passed the State Legislature. But Governor Schwarzenegger then vetoed it. Eric Schlosser:
These companies fight, tooth and nail, against labeling. The fast food industry fought against giving you the calorie information. They fought against telling you if there is trans-fat in your food. The meat packing idustry for years prevented country-of-origin labeling. They fought not to label genetically modified foods; and now 70% of processed food in the supermarket has some genetically modified ingredient
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And that opened the floodgates
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efforts to patent the most valuable parts of life
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which is to say the crops on which we depend
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Roush Monsanto is a chemical company
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They produced DDT Agent Orange in Vietnam
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and then they developed a product called Roundup
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We started hearing rumblings about genetically engineered soybeans
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Movie Summary
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
