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Bitter Seeds, directed by Micha X. Peled

When:
December 6, 2014 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
2014-12-06T13:00:00-08:00
2014-12-06T14:30:00-08:00
Where:
150 University Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
University Hall
University of California, Berkeley, Oxford Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
USA
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Director Micha X. Peled will be present for post screening discussion.

Bitter Seeds explores the future of how we grow things, weighing in on the worldwide debate over the changes created by industrial agriculture. Companies like the U.S.-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified (GM) seeds offer the most effective solution to feeding the world’s growing population, but on the ground, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where an epidemic of farmer suicides has claimed over a quarter million lives. Every 30 minutes one farmer in India, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family, commits suicide.


Bitter Seeds Trailer by teddybearfilms

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