BITTER SEEDS

Bitter Seeds, the final film in Micha X. Peled’s Globalization Trilogy following Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town and China Blue, explores the future of how we grow things. The worldwide debate focuses on how farming is being drastically transformed by the demands of industrial agriculture. Companies like the US-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified 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. In India, the controversy has become a matter of life and death. Every 30 minutes one farmer in India, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family, commits suicide. Featuring compelling characters, Bitter Seeds tells a deeply moving story from the heart of the worldwide controversy about the future of farming.