JOHN: All right this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com, doing another exciting episode for you, and
coming at you from downtown Las Vegas.
I don't know if they're growing any food downtown, but we're in downtown Las Vegas for a very
important reason: it's because today we're at the March Against Monsanto.
And I was asked to be a speaker here at the March Against Monsanto, and this is very important
to me, talking about GMOs, and creating some dialogues, I wanted to have a video with you
guys, with my talking.
But also go over some of the things about the GMO-free movement that's going on, not
only in Las Vegas, but around the world.
So anyways, let's go ahead and go inside to the staging area where people are setting
up, they're, you know, making posters, and there's a whole, like, grow-your-own-food
festival happenin' too, and I'll show you guys a little bit of that.
So we're here at the March Against Monsanto, and they have all kinds of different posters
up, trying to educate people about GMOs, 'cause, actually, most people don't know what GMOs
are, believe it or not.
And basically, in my own words, GMOs are organisms that would have not ever been created in nature—it's
like when you cross genes from salmon with tomatoes, for example—and I think they actually
did do that.
Genes from, you know,bacteria and fungi and other organisms into corn and soy and all
these different things—that wouldn't happen naturally.
So it's very innatural, it's like, you know, trying to like—a human trying to mate with
a fish, right?
It wouldn't ever happen in nature, and I would hope nobody's ever tried that either, right?
But this is like really unnatural.
And there are lot of studies that show it's probably not the healthiest thing in the world,
and my personal stance on GMOs is that they should, minimally, be labeled, right?
I don't advocate growing any kind of GMOs, and I wanna encourage everybody out there
to avoid purchasing them as much as you can.
And in the talk that I'm gonna give in just a little bit, I'll be kinda goin' more into
this— they have different statistics here: “GMOs are present in 60% of the foods on
supermarket shelves.”
So this means, if you wanna avoid that, you need to stop buying the processed foods—things
with the corn oil, corn syrup, soy, oils, sugar from sugar beets, things like this.
“53% of consumers say they would not buy foods that have been genetically modified.”
But everybody does 'cause it's not labeled.
This is so sad.
And “93% of Americans agree that we should have mandatory GMO labeling laws, but unfortunately,
this is not happening, and when it goes up to a vote in several states, it failed, because
the lobbyists and big money spend against, and get people to vote against these labeling
laws.
Because the companies know that this will change everything if labeling laws start to
pass.
And I believe they will one day.
Well anyway, everybody's getting ready for the March, and I think I'm gonna go ahead
and try to make a poster right quick before we march, and I give my little talk.
All right: “Know where your food comes from!
Grow Your Food At Home!”
And I'm not a billboard maker, and thank God it's not my profession, 'cause I've run out
of space and don't plan things accordingly, but this will work.
So now we're waiting for the March, and what I want to do now is take a few minutes to
interview some people here, to get their perspective on GMOs.
Okay, this kid right here.
All right, we're gonna talk to Sebastian, he's 9 and he has a sign that says “Wake
Up!”
JOHN (to Sebastian): So, Sebastian, why are you here today?
SEBASTIAN: “'Cause I like—I wanna learn about GMOs.”
JOHN: And what do you think about GMOs?
SEBASTIAN: “I think I should not eat GMOs anymore.
JOHN: And why is that?
SEBASTIAN: “Because when I used to try pork in second grade, I got sick.”
JOHN: Wow, so Sebastian got sick on GMOs, and you know, I don't encourage you guys to
eat GMOs., you know.
I wanna encourage you to eat GMO-free, and one way you can do this is definitely grow
your own food so you know where your food comes from.
Let's go ahead and talk to a few more people here at the March Against Monsanto here in
Las Vegas.
JOHN: All right and so now we're with Miranda, and she has a cool sign here that says: “GMO?
OMG!
WTF!”
But the back side's even better: “Monsanto gets the blank out” This is a family channel,
so I can't say that.
So, Miranda, why are you here today, and what are your thoughts on GMOs?
MIRANDA: “I'm here today to protest the most heinous corporation in the world, which
is called Monsanto.
I hate them because they're in bed with our government, they're tampering with our food
and they're lying to us, and lying to everybody in the world.”
JOHN: Straight up!
I definitely agree man; big corporations are there for one reason: to make a profit, and
they'll do anything to make their profit, even if means lying and paying off politicians
and this kind of stuff.
MIRANDA: “Yeah, I feel bad for the farmers in India that are committing suicide, because
Monsanto is charging them for their crops reproducing seed, so they're in debt for the
rest of their lives, so that's why they're committing suicide, so they can save their
families from all the debt and the lies of Monsanto.”
JOHN: Wow, that's heavy.
So now, we're all convening at the Beauty Bar here in downtown Fremont Street, which
is old Las Vegas downtown.
So we're gonna march in with several hundred people over here, and I think I'm about ready
to give a little speech.
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JOHN: All right, thank you Dave, and thank you everybody for having me here.
You know, today we're here to talk and march against Monsanto, and just like Nick said,
you know, I don't wanna be against things, I wanna be for things, right?
What am I for?
What are you guys really for, right?
We're really for health and for eating real food, right?
And we don't want these modified foods, and we need to stand against this, So today, I
wanna share with you guys some of the steps you can do to make a real change.
'Cause as much marching helps and creates awareness, it really does very little to make
a change in the world, and we all wanna see a change in the world, right?
And the thing is, that big corporations—they don't care about you—they don't care about
us.
What they care about is the almighty dollar.
They'll screw people for money, they'll screw your health for money, they'll screw the world
for money, they'll screw the environment for money, they're gonna screw everything, for
profit.
But we have the control, because the people at large, everybody here, every American in
the country has money, and they make choices every day to spend their money on food, right?
The sad fact of the matter is, most of the food in the grocery store-- 60%--70% it's
estimated, is from GMOs!
But people are buying that day after day, and we've got to eat—so if you don't do
anything else, change your spending habits, stop buying processed foods that have may
have GMO products in them.
You know, corn and soy products; sugar beets, sugar—all these different products that
contain GMOs.
And it's not just the processed foods that I removed myself from eating twenty years
ago—that everybody could do.
You could also remove the thing that uses the most GMOs, right?
It's the animal products: most of the grain that's grown, the corn and the soy is not
meant for, like, you know, soft drinks—which, too many people drink soft drinks, and you
shouldn't drink that stuff anyways—but it goes to feed the meats and the animals—and
it takes 7 lbs of grains to produce 1 lb of meat or something crazy like that.
It also takes incredible amounts of water to produce meat, so you need to stop eating,
or not only reduce your consumption of the meats grown with GMOs—go organic, go grass-fed,
grow your own, just eliminate it –'cause you don't really need it, right?
You don't need it!
And that's one thing—change is money habits —two is super-important: take responsibility
for the food you eat by growing your own food!
The woman settlers that founded this valley here—you can go out to their original settlement,
you know they had to grow their own food because there were not big supermarkets, there were
not stores!
If they didn't grow their own food, they didn't know how.
I'm glad that teachers are now teachin' kids how to grow food because Americans—we all
need to knew how to grow food at one point, and now we don't, and that is one method that
we're controlled, because we're not responsible for the food we eat...we're addicted into
it by whatever is sold in the grocery store.
So take that power back, start growin' your own, whether you have chickens at home, you
know.
Like me, I've got a whole backyard full of vegetables, and I have over 1000 plants in
my garden right now that I tend to every day, and I grow year round here in Las Vegas—and
I wanna let you guys know: it is possible!
So if you guys wanna learn how to do this, you can check me out at growyourowngreens.com.
I've educated so many people on how to grow their own food, and how to take it one step
at a time, because change does not happen overnight.
This march is gonna happen in one day, but there's 364 more days in the year that you
have the choice to vote with your dollars, to vote against Monsanto, vote against big
corporations, and take your power back!
To you—feed your kids well, teach them well, and tell all your friends and neighbors!
Now let's go march against Monsanto!
So now everyone's assembled at the courthouse; as you can see, there's like 1000 people here,
it's totally insane!
Everybody voting for real food!
That's what this is all about, you know, about Monsanto and all the other corporations that
are controlling the food system, and you guys take a bite out of that, and do something
about it yourself!
Because let me tell you: business is not gonna do that; and it's quite unfortunate that,
at the courthouse steps we—that legislation is not keeping up—and that the politicians
are basically being lobbied by the lobbyists with the big money, to make laws in favor
of the companies.
So, I mean, those things are probably not gonna change any time soon, unfortunately
so you guys really have to make the change yourself.
I think we're all marching back, and we're gonna march down Fremont St—historic Fremont
St—so let's go ahead and check that out.
So now we're at the downtown Fremont St, downtown Las Vegas—one place ya gotta come if you
never did Vegas before (cheering cuts over John)...everybody's marching, shouting, whatever
they want—it's kinda crazy!
But I wanted to show you guys this real quick: it's actually next door here in downtown,
the Heart Attack Grill, and if you're over 350 lbs, you actually eat for free, and I
mean, this is basically--they're serving GMO foods— that cause heart attacks: aka, “Meat!”
People in there actually had heart attacks from eatin' there; so at least they openly
acknowledge that eating that way will give you a heart attack.
I wanna encourage you guys to not eat that way, so that, to prevent you getting a heart
attack, you know, now or in the future...
JOHN: All right, so you guys got to see some of the footage of the March Against Monsanto
here in Las Vegas, and it was really quite fun to see, like 1000 people walkin' around;
and a lot of tourists kinda scratchin' their heads, like, “What's goin' on?”
And I wondered, like how many of them really know about GMOs and what it is, and hopefully,
because of this march today, some of them will look it up and educate themselves about
GMOs, and not participate in that whole system, and once again, vote with your dollars, like
I talked about in the speech.
Now, I'm really glad I'm here in Las Vegas, and I hope other March against Monsanto events
ends in what they're doing here, right>.
It's a “Grow Your Own” Festival, where they're celebrating and teaching people how
to grow their own food, so I just wanna show you guys just real quick, what they're doing
inside.
I mean, this place has been mobbed; what happened was, they were giving away little free plant
starters, in, like, tin cans, and like, you know, cut up water bottles, and there's still,
like, so many people here.
Usually, they have, like, a ton of plants here; even in just, like, old water bottles—or
this is actually a Powerade,--you can grow some plants.
This guy looks like he was overwatered.
And that's what I wanna go back over today is: grow your own food, and to be the change
you wanna see in the world, like Gandhi said, right?
Stop investing your money in grocery store food products that are processed, that contain
GMO ingredients; stop purchasing the animal meats that have been eating GMOs, stop eating
dairy products that are also being fed GMOs, that also have GMO hormones to ramp up their
production.
Basically, start growing your own food.
And I know it's not gonna happen overnight for you guys and I know many of you guys already,
they're my viewers—are growing your own food, and that's great!
I want you guys to educate others and help others start to grow their own, if they're
interested, and let people sample out your food; they will taste the difference.
The industrial/agricultural system is not doing a good job at producing food, it's picked
too early, and it doesn't have as much nutrition in it, and a lot of it just doesn't taste
good, and people will eat their food if it tastes good, and homegrown stuff always tastes
the best.
So if you're also one of my viewers who has not started to grow your own—I really wanna
encourage you guys—if you don't get anything else from this video, start today!
Even if you have an apartment, or condo, you can grow some microgreens inside—I'll put
a link down below to a video sharing with you guys how to do that.
Of course, you know, if you have a backyard, you can grow outside, lots of good stuff;
and I have over 1050 videos now, sharing with you guys how to do it.
I hope you guys really enjoyed this episode—a little march against monsanto, my little speech
I gave, seen the things that I shared in this video, if you did, please give me a thumbs
up.
Maybe I'll be asked to speak at future March-against-Monsantos here in Vegas, and around the country.
Once again, this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
See ya next time!