The Farmer Who Took On Monsanto (David Vs. Goliath Documentary) | Real Stories
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- One man against big business...
Since Monsanto began selling their patented 'Roundup Ready' genetically modified (GM) seeds they have sued hundreds of farmers for patent infringement. Their heavy-handed investigations and ruthless prosecutions have been nothing less than an assault on the foundations of farming practices and traditions that have endured for millennia, including one of the oldest, the right to save and replant crop seed. Michael White, a fourth generation farmer and seed cleaner living in the northeast corner of rural Alabama never imagined that he would become the target of the conglomerates aggressive legal tactics. But unlike other farmers in his area Michael refused to give in to Monsanto and in doing so became one of only a handful of farmers to maintain the ability to speak publicly about his case. This is his story.
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Fact that any Corporation would have that much control over seeds is terrifying. All Farmers should be able to save the seeds from their crops that they grew, to replant and or sale
Murica. Racism is the least of this
Countries problem.
I agree America is totalitarian
Yes but Monsanto is evil. They are poisoning people all over the world but they pay so much money to governments and politicians, they bribe anyone they need to, hire evil genius lawyers and even employ officials to get what they want. The fact that they have been allowed to copyright seeds and go onto the private property of farmers to extort them is disgusting and evidence that they have officials in their pockets.
Hope this farmer gets his redemption.
@@monnikhan1000 not just America…. This is global elites…. Indian farmers are committing suicide DAILY because of Monsanto…
I have the highest respect for farmers that work hard to live of their lands, without genetically modified seed. God Bless Them All.
Yep we owe so much to the farmers and most people still take for granted how they're not just fighting for themselves and their families but they're fighting for all of us .
GMO seed yields way more grain that is why farmers buy it.
One of the worst things are US government did was allow Monsanto to patent seed. Just goes to show all they’re looking out for big business. Corporate greed
EXACT !!!
Half of Monsanto are ex or still government officials.
Same thing happening in India now... govt killing people
They just paid the right people, speech money is how it works
It's outrageous and horrifying
This is a man of principle. Actually cares about his product, wants nothing but the safest, and was willing to take on a corporation who literally has billions.
I grew up in the South. Most of my high school class elected to 'stay with their roots', stay there, farm, ranch...they worked their farms, planted Monsanto seeds, lived under debt...while I went to college, traveled the world, worked in Engineering in so many places. I retired early in life...and at my 40-year class reunion time, I wanted to see my 'remaining classmates' from so long ago...so about a year or so out, looked up several names...trying to find someone to talk to about what, where, when a reunion would be held. I finally traced a girl in my grade down...she lived in Michigan (while I lived out west with my wife). I caught up with her for a few minutes, she said several had wondered 'what had happened to me at a few past reunions, but none had heard'. I told her that I was always just so busy...hadn't had the time to come through that way again. Again, our conversation turned to a 'reunion'...and I could tell she was choking up...she said 'well, I guess you wouldn't know...but there won't be any more reunions, unless you want to come just to see me...seems we're the only ones left'...I said 'what?! there was almost 100 in our class...what happened to everyone?' She said 'other than a few that had car wrecks and one violent assault fatality, almost everyone is dead...most all of them, of cancer'. At the time, I said 'WHAT? We're not even 60 yet! EVERYONE got cancer and is now dead?' She said 'yep...most of some type of internal-digestive cancer...and I don't know how you feel about it, but I'm tell you, it was that seed and those chemicals that did it! Most that were hard-farming started dying off right after we turned 40...and by the time I was 52, almost all the owner-farmers were dead...the last ones were those who'd ran the commercial chicken barns...but even they're gone now'...I then thought to ask her, 'well...I left out of there at 18...joined the military, then to school, then began my civilian career (all without returning)...when did you leave?' She said 'well, I married an Air Force guy, and moved to California when I was 19...only went back for holidays...and when my parents died, I stopped that too'...so, out of 100, 2 left and didn't return...and are the only 'survivors' of the genocide of 'commercial farming'...be careful what you eat...I try not to eat 'American-grown food', when I can help it...but Monsanto is EVERYWHERE now...and with Ukraine and Russia, and Europe's pending starvation...they're about to end 'no-GMO grain' laws there...and start shipping it in...most-likely to the same result that my class has already passed away from. Be CAREFUL what you eat...
Your post is total garbage and ignorant. Monsanto was bought out over 5 years ago and does not exist. You are clearly clueless about this subject.
Thanks for sharing your story. I've been reading stuff from internet since 2003 and nothing of what you said seems extrange to me and unfortunately is just a handful of sand in a desert full of these kind of things, worst is that 99% of people on earth is not aware of.
Once you start to connect strings everything becomes clear.
Damn that’s crazy. I believe you
Thank you for writing this account of what happened to the community of your childhood. I wonder if you had family members who either remained in that area or if they had relocated.
I am extremely concerned for the people who work in stores that sell Roundup (for the homeowner). These retailers force their employees to come in contact with this poison every time they have to move the product or set up a display. If you happen to be in a big box store such as H.D. on a warm day, the air will be filled with the scent of stuff so badly that you can not breathe. My son worked at a H.D. for a couple of years. What will happen to these people 20 or 30 years after breathing in this poison?
That's a real man right there.
Amen. Man of the Earth, not of the coin.
@@shimilangagardens1804 wow 😭💜
@@shimilangagardens1804 Well said.
World wide we need to ban Monsanto GMO patent practice and make seed collection human rights and food security for all. This is truly evil to monopolize food.
The food which God almighty gives to world it have benefit for the human but human greed they destroy what God almighty gives especially in this century were companies don't care the human health.
Yeah we're living in really evil times and I do believe that these dark beings will fall by the wayside and all this corruption will be history eventually .
We do not need to do that.
Good job sir for standing up for yourself and for us! God bless you! Praying you can get through this.
The phony country boy admitted to stealing GMO seeds.
I'm not religious at all, even so, I believe Monsanto is the closest thing to Satan that I can think of.
I could not agree more. In fact when I type Monsanto into my phone the next 2 words that pop up are "is" and then "evil".
Look at these peoples bloodlines. The ones who own these corporations. The global elite… they control the world. They ARE the evil inflicted on all nations. Indian farmers are committing suicide DAILY because of Monsanto
Greed and power, thats what the devil love
They are destroying family traditions and traumatising generations. His grandfather would be heartbroken to see the state of the farm now.
That's a tough old boy and he knows what he's talking about
Thank you for sharing your story Mr White. I can see its still difficult to talk about, especially knowing your Father went to his grave with fear in his heart because of this bullying corporation and their threats. The best of luck to you Mr White. Much respect
Yes I need to look and see what's going on with him now and it is sad about what they did to his father it's absolutely tragic how they were that poor man down and he went to his grave in fear
Monsanto is the devil, in more ways than one.
As I see, this farmer is innocent & generous like an Earth farmer. May he and many like him keep getting the strength from the soil to fight the corporate devils.
What a great man, standing up against beasts
So so sadly, we are now in an age in which we not only have corporations like Monsanto taking over everything and flat-out changing the way we live from the ground up, controlling more and more everyday since they started way back when... but people - entire generations - more diluded and ignorant to real problems like this than ever. People blame farmers in general having no idea whatsoever that these guys aren't the problem. This man isn't the reason cows get penned and injected with hormones. This man isn't the reason we're all terrified of what we're eating. Thank God someone out there somewhere is still trying to tell the farmer's stories.
leatherandjade arts killing an animal is wrong period. It is unnecessary and cruel. Animal ag is horrible for the enviornment.however, this farmer seems to only be growing corn which is much better for the envio then animal products. I agree. We need to buy local produce and veggies!:)
For vegetarians and vegans, the first part of this is true, yes, but no matter how many vegans and vegetarians there are in the world, meat eaters will always exist, don't agree that it's unnecessary, and should always be concerned with farming animals in the most humane ways possible. It isn't what this video is really about anyway. But I completely agree with the last part.
leatherandjade arts luckily, more and more people are going vegan! We shouldn’t not go vegan bc the world won’t entirely go vegan.we must do what is in our control such as buying cruelty free vegan food and local fruits and veggies. Animal products are very unnecessary and extremely damaging to both humans, the envio, and the animals!😊🌱
Pineapple Fried rice Sorry, I should have been clearer on my own stance. What I meant was that I am not a vegan, I eat meat and don’t personally advocate veganism. But yes, those who do are free to and those who don’t should also choose wisely.
And Bill Gates is buying up all the farm land too.
We are facing same thing here in India ... people are dying good people are dying and Indian government want to give full farming control to corporates. Support Indian farmers, Farmers protest
Some capitalism will sure help increase wealth and economic development, baki desh tractor chalayenge aur ham abhi bhi hal, bail gari kyun chalaen?
It only needs to be strictly regulated so no exploitation on health, farmers and nature resources. But one thing I agree monsanto should not be in invitation list.
@@hyleenpognaire8134 only if you know the bigger picture you wouldn't have said this.
This needs to be shared all over
I can only speak for myself, but God Bless you, sir.
Hats off to good ol' farm boys
The background music in this documentary is epic
But the video is horseshit.
wish I could have a talk with him. I feel the same. Real Stories should do a story about what Monsanto did to my hometown, Anniston, AL. I'm sick, and everyone I know is sick or dead that grew up there. It breaks my heart.
Yup! Even in India, farmers committing suicide daily.
I watched a documentary about tons of people in the Ohio river valley are suffering from this same thing
@@Th3Watch3r by any chance do you recall the name of that documentary or what channel it was on ?
I would really like to see it
Well if you want them to do a story about your town , the only way that's going to happen is if YOU CONTACT THEM ...you know , maybe email this channel here ... maybe they'll fly out there and get working on it and I'm sure there's a way to find out how to contact this farmer here and talk with him , whether by phone or email .
It gives his name and so you probably could even find his phone number or address on the internet ... there's got to be a way that you could contact him .
It sounds like the story of your town does seriously need to be told and you should think about contacting The Young Turks ... also VICE channel ... pretty sure they tell you how you can contact them and VICE does some very good stories ... check out those channels especially Vice .
... and maybe some of the people who have represented Live Aid for the farmers such as Neil Young and his wife actress Daryl Hannah you know they're very active on the internet especially Daryl Hannah ... I think she's on Twitter a lot ( I don't really like her ) but I'll bet if you contact her and say what's been happening in your town and that you WISH there could be a camera crew and somebody to make a documentary about it , I'm sure somebody would look into it and I don't know if you have Facebook but you could try creating awareness through a Facebook page .
You know who else you want to contact ? Erin Brockovich remember Julia Roberts played her years ago in that movie about the major lawsuit against the powerful company poisoning the water and causing people to die ?
I'm pretty sure she still works in the industry and just Google and look up stuff about her and I'm sure you'll find a contact number or an email for her .
YOU have to MAKE IT HAPPEN ... you have to be proactive and start CONTACTING PEOPLE , whether through emailing them or finding that they have channels here and commenting to them on their channels or writing them letters but like I said a lot of these people are on Twitter now .
A little bit of that time and effort will probably get some answers for you and you could be very proud of yourself for what you will do for your people
I'm sorry that comment I left you was so long but it tells you everything you need to do to get them to investigate what's been happening in your town and especially to get it on the news and in a documentary .
Some channels sensor and delete very long comments so please let me know if it's there or not .
Also yes contact this channel here real stories email them or call them whatever it takes and tell them about what's happening at your town and that you hope they'll make a documentary about it like they did with this farmer and tell them you'd like to talk to that farmer maybe they'll ask him to call you
A real David vs. Goliath story. Seed saving is a fundamental right of farmers but this has been taken over to a large extent by the Big Ag companies.
We're living an evil times really evil times and what I find just as frightening is that's supposedly Bill Gates has been buying up best amounts of Farmland in America .
Seed patents have existed since 1930 and every farmer knows about them.
@@DukeGMOLOL The United States Patent and Trademark Office, for practically all of its history, refused to grant patents on seeds, viewing them as life forms with too many variables to be patented. However, in 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for seed patents in a 5-4 decision. This laid the groundwork for plenty of corporations to start gaining control of global food supply.
More relevant than ever in today's world. You have our respect sir.
He has my scorn.
Thank you for your input
I can see his deep pain and hurt, but he should know that he's father was so brave. In the resurrectión you'll see him again but the wicked will be gone, take courage and be proud of your father!!!
Smoke your copium somewhere else.
No such thing as a literal resurrection, sorry to burst your bubble.
Yes sir, there is a literal resurrection and it’ll be coming soon according to biblical prophesy. You must not be a believer. 😭
We can talk about this if you like. I can show you. 💕
You can start in 1 Corinthians 15. And there’s many, many more scriptures I can refer you to.
Organic sustainable farming vs. Toxic farming
Much LOVE to Farmers ~
Bayer has now acquired Monsanto so who knows what that will become. However, a month ago a jury decided against Monsanto - due to components of Round Up, specifically glyphosate, being 'probable human carcinogens' - with the court ruling that Monsanto pay $289M in damages (Johnson v Monsanto).
That is like sueing a regular person earning aprox.75,000 yr.being sued and only having to pay 10,000!!! Anything less than a billion is nothing to them!
@@mrsa9130 they don't care about money, they are after power as long as their company is alive, they will continue to do this. They want to control global food supply. One who controls food, controls the humans.
It's now 2024 & this story only has 85k views? It should have MILLIONS. I am sharing it with my network now. The brother interviewed is brilliant & we must HEED his warning ⚠️...bless him & his beloved father for speaking truth to power.
It's a shame the video has this many views.
I think all farmers should start sending their crops to labs for analysis and if there's any mansanto seeds on their property they should sue mansanto for contamination of their fields kind of like how toxic waste is the responsibility of those that produce it. If enough farmers get together do a class action because frankly I think genetically modified seeds are possibly dangerous to humans and animals. I mean we don't have the research yet but I'm sure it's cancer causing.
Your post is false and shows your ignorance on this subject pdxeddie1111.
GMO is quite dangerous not only to human health but to the soil as well. GMO soyabean really causes hormonal issues in male with increased estrogens. Not only this but the cattle industry also has a problem of animals being injected hormones for increased milk production which is causing lowering of testosterone levels in males.
@@bhatmussharafm13 The problems soybeans can cause has NOTHING to do with wether they are gmo technology soybeans or not. The safety of gmo technology has been proven all over the world and it is used all over the world. You clueless about this subject Mussharaf.
Killing the Human race with GMO Food's.
Your profile pic is the healing of the world.
Keep up the great work God bless and be with u and yours
This is heartbreaking 💔
Monsanto wants to own the food supply. 1984. Big Brother.
Except it shouldn't be classed as food.
Yep
Tides have turned and people are taking them to court, I hope this company goes bankrupt soon.
They won't. The safe product will continue to be sold.
@DukeGMOLOL, could you explain more?
Love this !
you love monsanto ruining lives? awesome..
Stay strong. You are right 😎
"If these new GM crops are so high yielding, how come the price of grain is not falling instead of going up?" Well said. Because it's a malevolent monopoly.
GMO wheat has NEVER been on the market, EVER. Corn is the only GMO grain.
Monshitto also developed agent orange with Dow, so you think they won't kill you?
I hope the suits over Roundup cripple Monsanto!! Evil tactics will not go unpunished. I pray for Mr. White and all farmers to persevere. 🙏☮️
God bless you & your Dad & your family🙏💓💓💓
Thanks you to all farmers for they hard work and blessings us with food daily, God bless y'all and for that I'm grateful daily
16 thousand views!!!!!!
No wonder I only just now heard about this from my mom and her friend who saw a movie inspired from one of these farmers stories.....
👏🏼👏🏻👏🏼 Well done, Patriots
Wow! I can’t believe what I just heard I swear the love of money truly is the root of most evil & I’m not religious AT ALL!
I don't even know what to say, how do you ruthlessly intimidate and ruin farmers' livings like this? This is truly sad :(
It's sad that people believe this nonsense video. He actually admitted to knowingly planting, producing, saving, cleaning and selling Roundup Ready soybeans illegally.
I thought Seeding farm as of like, Torrent lol
“All giants fall. Their day’s comin’.” Amen
It's God's Air, Water, & Food that we need to live.
We can't live without God.
Man sets out to destroy God and, in the process, man destroys himself.
A real American Right there
🌱Support🚜Farmers🌱
Hero.
It’s a crazy world when they make seeds special to be able to be sprayed with poison and not die therefore carrying that poison into tge food system. Then force farmers to grow and use that seed which Carry’s a cancer causing poison. May god bless you for not using that seed and feeding it to us
No one forces farmers to use Roundup (Glyphosate) which is made by many companies even foreign companies. Farmers Love it because it is by far the safest herbicide they have ever used even much safer than many of the highly toxic pesticides Organic Growers use. You clueless about this subject Joshua.
We literally reap what we sow by buying billions of dollars of corn and soy bean junk food every MONTH. We are too addicted to cheap garbage, and company's have more than enough cash to fight until the death(s). Anyone want to guess how much food in a chain grocery store contains precious Mosanto seed based corn products?
You mean safe seed based corn products.
Monsanto was bought out 4 years ago and does not exist. You seem clueless about this subject 9zero6
@@davidadcock3382 i may clueless indeed. I will research this. Thank you.
@@DukeGMOLOL still cheap garbage though right.
@@9ZERO6 You should do your research before you spew out your ignorance 9zero6
No individual, corporation or country should ever have this much power over all of humanity..never again.. lesson well learned, no more
They gonna let Monsanto patent air next?
Dont get vacced bro
We still grow open pollinated corn, and in the past few years it has been putting out better yields that our neighbors that pland hybrid. Monsanto is driven by the dollar, and that's all they care about, not about where their food comes from.
Monsanto was bought out almost 5 years ago and does not exist. What rock have you been living under David?
@@davidadcock3382 bayers own Monsanto, changing owners doesn't mean they don't exist. And bayers is not really innocent
@@bhatmussharafm13 Bayer bought out Monsanto 6 years and Monsanto does NOT exist today. All that is left of Monsanto is an empty filing cabinet.
God Bless you. I used to pick salad in my fathers garden and they would wilt in and hour, meanwhile, the leatuce is okay for months? huh,>3 I am with you,,, we need to build up small farmers not tear em apart buy breaking them fanacially!
May God bless and protect all farmers. We don't need Monsanto GMOs anyway.
To patent seeds is to patent life
Monsanto is the worst. They should just be called monsatan
People need to wake up
every single time
Can someone tell me where you buy seeds?
Dollarseed.com
Heirloom seeds
Never buy Monsanto products
Put contracts out
💚💚💚
I don't see how this BS ever got started in the first damn place!!
THIS SHOULD BE ON THE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The video is false and total garbage!!!
@@davidadcock3382 you have over 50 comments on this video about how it’s fake like they didn’t just make a documentary about it. Fake fed accounts like you make me sick to my stomach. Hopefully you’re the one eating monsantos food and not us.
You are the one that is fake and have proven to have NO knowldge about this subject. I be sick to if I knew as little as you do about this subject!! Pitiful ignorance from tee42!!! @@tee4212
Looks like the corporations are at it again with the MRNA shots
Ya the mosant is of.slowly killing me machine !! OGM.
Copyright and patent, are probably one of the worst things to have ever have happened to the common man
Plant breeding has caused a scarcity of seeds, it’s operation caused the traditional seeds to be extinct and you don’t even have them around always, it’s evil to patent seeds
We have had patented seed for 54 years. You are clearly cluesless about this subject.
ROUND UP SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scary monopoly in a dying world
The corporations won’t be judged on judgement day… but every employee, executive and shareholder WILL be judged. It will have an effect on their tarnished legacies. Karma is always in the mirror. Thank you for your commitment to caring about the planet and all of life upon it🙏🏽
I don't think most of the lower down paper pushers have a clue what's going on. They're just trying to earn a crust like the rest of us. The CEOs and the thinking mind of the business know, though...
The thief in the video will be judged guilty on judgement day.
They have the power to change also this TH-cam algorithm to steer views ... please share!
Ban Mosanto !! Dont let them without warrant
Just another argument to purchase organic none GMO products from Whole Foods. Yes Walmart is a bit cheaper then buying the Whole Foods 365 brand but think about what your being part of by buying from Walmart, Target, etc.
Congrats to Kontagan,l8ng time ago!
Legal & lobby fund should be started in order to bankrupt the conglomerates. Set up united defense. Farmers Legal cooperative.
PLEASE PROVIDE A NAROATION OPTION. Not all of us have perfect vision. I can't see the text on the TV. Can you please spend a few bucks for someone to read the text aloud? You can use it as an option. It won't hurt, and very cheap.
Wilson Solt
Unlikely being that TH-cam are who provide the video playback container for their site so ultimately it comes down to them to provide proper disability and accessibility options. I agree with you though because, maybe one day, I'll need such a service too.
I hate to say this but these companies used third world countries as their testing grounds. 4 decades ago they were selling seeds that produced no-reproducing crops. No one paid attention because most believed that we needed to look after our own and people in other countries shouldn't be our concern. Had we nipped this in the bud it wouldn't be happening here today. Personally I think we should help others just because it's the right thing to do but even if you're doing it for your own protection start paying attention to what OUR country is allowing companies to do elsewhere because sooner or later it will be here too.
Blame your government for letting it get this bad.
they forget it was others who brought them seeds along to the twentenith centyrey not monsatto, preadtor company, no not for the common farmer, then not for the common good!
Nothing could cut the bond between the government and coporations, that money creates
Money created this stupid video.
Tweet this out with #Monsanto
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Someone could go postal
Only an eco wacko idiot would do that over a safe product.
I’m here after watching the movie trailer about this story
what us the movie called
@@isabelauribe137 Percy vs Goliath
I'm watching
They are evil!!!! My heart breaks for this.
Get rid of money in politics, and bring the free markets
They bought all flint michigan crops !
they want to GMO people now with the rona vax. God bless you Sir
No.
@@ensignmjs7058 and they are cannibalizing themselves due to money making vax patents, that were supposed to "save the world"
Plus gmo tastes like card board imo
Monsanto has Africa in chokehold with their seeds and chemicals. Sad
Your post is Ignorant!!! Monsanto does NOT exist and have been gone now for over 6 years. Please Try to find another lie to tell.
there is a solution to this problem. if they claim to own the seeds, a request and further a court order can be made for them to remove all of their property from your land in a timely manner (as it is interfering with your right to use/enjoy your property) without destroying your property and interfering with your use of property. Following a period of time, their property will be considered abandoned and rights to it are optional to the land owner. If they decide they still claim it as property then Compensation will be due for any measurable period of interference in your right to use/enjoyment of property, and any damage or disturbances to your property that is not restored to its original state in the process of them not removing their property. as long as you haven't signed these rights away in a purchase agreement with the seed company, they can and should be held accountable.
Your post proves that you are clueless about this subject michael.
KARMA is a B*tch Monsanto ! Praying everyday they wake up and realize what they are doing !
Monsatan