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"Simmering disaster" is what renowned activist Mahesh Bhatt calls genetically modified foods. Though genetically modified foods have caused countless problems in lab tests, multinational corporations are pushing them into the stores and onto the plates of people across the world, and India's staple foods are being manipulated without the knowledge of the people. "Poison on the Planet" is a documentary examining the impact of GM foods on India's population.

Devinder Sharma, world-renowned food policy expert, spends a lot of time thinking and writing about how agriculture impacts climate change and how genetically modified foods impact everyone. He spoke to us about the ways the West and developing nations can learn from the example of India's "Green Revolution" in farming and the problems that have sprung up in its wake. Climate action should go hand in hand with food policy. Thanks to Greenpeace Delhi for the video in this segment.

Ralph Nader says the central political issue of our time is giant corporate power and its take over of our government, plus the spread of commercial values into every nook and cranny of our culture including the commercialization of childhood, the universities and almost everything these large corporations touch. Speaking at the Washington, DC Green Festival, he also details what we can and must do about it.