<div class="gmail_quote">The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia <br>and Association for India's Development (MIT-Boston chapters)<br>
present<br><br>Bitter Seeds<br>
a documentary on GM seeds and farmers' suicides in India<br><br>Followed by Q&A with director Micha Peled<br><br>Where - Room 4-163 MIT<br>77 Mass. Ave Cambridge MA<br><br>Thursday April 18 2013<br>7-9:30PM<br><br>
<br>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.<br>
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Bitter Seeds is the final film in director Micha X. Peled’s Globalization Trilogy, following Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town and China Blue. The films won 18 international awards, aired on over 30 television channels and screened in more than 100 film festivals.<br>
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</div><br>-- <br>"The woods are lovely, dark and deep"<br><br><br>