Evil Seed Scheme?

A failed GM cotton crop prompts farmer suicides in India. Windborne GM canola contaminates organic and conventional farms in Canada. One farmer fights Monsanto in the Supreme Court. A company seeks approval for giant GM salmon that may threaten the survival of the natural species. GM pigs are born with ghastly mutations. And experts reveal how inadequate testing and regulations put us at risk. It features Vandana Shiva, Andrew Kimbrell, Percy Schmeiser and others.

Reporter Jane Akre

Steve Wilson: "What Fox told us was we were just the people to be the investigators." Jane Akre: "Do any stories you want. Ask tough questions and get answers. So, I thought this is great, this is a dream job. The very first thing they had us do was not to research stories but to shoot this promo which was 'The Investigators'. And they had a film crew and a smoke machine and we were silhouetted." Steve Wilson: "One of the first stories that Jane came up with was the revelation that most of the milk in the State of Florida and throughout much of the country was adulterated with the effects of Bovine Growth Hormone, the artificial hormone that farmers were injecting into their cows so that they would produce more milk..."

Mexico's Poisoned Rivers

"Mexico likes to consider itself a good place to do business. It's got a large work force and borders the United States which is the world's biggest economy. But as the Mexican government focuses on attracting investors some people feel that little is being done to protect them or the environment from the side effects of industry."

"This part of Mexico was once famous for the quality of its water but not any more. It's now an important center for the production of fashionable bluejeans. The most famous brands are made in factories here..."

Stanislav Grof

He has been the principal investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia, chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and scholar-in-residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. It was at Esalen that he codeveloped, with his wife Christina Grof, Holotropic Breathwork, a technique that includes deep, connected breathing, music, art, and trained facilitation with the goal wholeness, healing, and wisdom.