Deborah Koons Garcia, director, writer, and producer of The Future of Food, discusses the market forces behind GMO and how communities can organize successful opposition.

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SHOW INTRODUCTION There's a bully in the school yard with the initials GMO, supported by large corporations who own many players in the government. There's also a bunch of radicals fomenting a counter-revolution of consumers and scientists who don't agree that genetically modified food will save the world's people from hunger. Globally, Europe and Asia are isolating the U.S. and refusing to accept altered products. Here, South Dakota and Nebraska passed constitutional amendments banning non-family farms, farmer's markets increased by 79% between 1979 and 2002, and in 1990 consumers spent one billion dollars on organic food and that figure increased to thirteen billion in 2003. There have been a few reports about ill effects from GMO products, but there's no labeling and researchers examining GMO effects are being fired and censored. So it's up to us to defeat the bully by teaching everyone we know what the rest of the world already suspects. Join us for an interview with the director/producer/writer of the film "The Future of Food" Deborah Koons Garcia.