Documentry on how the use of Endosulfan (pesticide) has created widespread congential abnormalities in the children of Kochinim, Kerala. Also on how the rampant use of fertilizers and pesticides in decimating the ecology and how farmers are moving back to organic farming to ensure sustained development Men on the Moon Productions Supporters: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation : TERI Director, Script: Ramesh Menon

You can also visit us at http://www.satyamevjayate.in - For decades our food and water have been contaminated by powerful, harmful pesticides which have been promoted as necessary for better agricultural output. But the reality is that we don't need pesticides for better yield, and their use is not only deadly for health but results in expensive farming methods. The solution is to adopt organic farming, which is possible and profitable, as the state of Sikkim has shown.

A shocking investigation into the hypocrisy of US pesticide laws. Available on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/circle-of-poison/id1163460367?mt=6 Amazon Video: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M1A6AVB Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/circleofpoison Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Circle_of_Poison?id=bA6fQkshrls&hl When the US government bans a pesticide, deemed too harmful for the American people, you would imagine that to be the end of it. What you would not expect is it to then be exported freely aboard for profit. In recent years countless harmful pesticides have been spread around the world's less-developed nations, causing immeasurable damage. Many are then imported back into the United States on infected foodstuffs, creating a terrible cycle of poison. Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures "People keep dying and people keep getting richer…it is the poor people that go to work, it is all at the expense of the poor" explains Diana, a member of a Mexican farming community. In recent decades the United States has exported increasing amounts of dangerous pesticides into her community - along with countless other communities throughout the developing world - with devastating consequences for the crops and the people that farm them. "There is no security -there is no regard for the safety of the employee, there is no interest in protecting the human being" explains Paco, a pesticide consultant. Back in the United States, powerful lobbies for the pesticide companies have ensured the continued production and export of these dangerous chemicals, and with close ties to the federal government, the industry's financial interests have been protected despite all scientific and ethical arguments. Repeated attempts to curb the exports of these chemicals have been thwarted; even President Jimmy Carter failed to tame them when in office, despite repeated attempts: "we had all the material to show that we were doing something unscrupulous, or even illegal as far as international law goes, but the manufacturers of these dangerous materials were so powerful that they obstructed what I did" he explains. There is a growing anxiety among many in the United States that these pesticides are infecting crop yields that are then imported back into the country and being consumed in the domestic market, and the risk to the American people remains unknown. "There is a contradiction here" argues Jay Feldman, director of the coalition Beyond Pesticides, "when you look at nuclear technology, we worry that an abuse of that technology will come back and hurt the United States, and we are very careful in our exports. We need to have that attitude with pesticides". "When I step back and think about the scope of what we've done it's been a giant, tragic experiment" explains David Weir, "to contaminate our planet is a terrible sin". Circle of Poison explores the worrying truth as American corporations exploit our planet for profit. Player Piano Productions – Ref. 6768

Watch the film in full at: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/toxickids Is our dependence on pesticides harming the health of our children? Every day, children are exposed to up to 130 chemical pollutants from pesticides. All around the world, scientists and doctors are raising the alarm, linking increase of child cancers, birth defects and even the explosion of autism with exposure to chemicals in pesticides. Six corporations control the pesticide market: Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, Dow, Basf et Dupont. They rule over a market of 50 billions dollars. For a year, director Martin Boudot followed the tracks of their molecules to show how some of the most dangerous ones get into our everyday life. In France, children breath a pesticide classified as "probable carcinogenic". Distributed all over the world, it’s one of Bayer’s best-sellers. Martin Boudot and his team of reporters took some samples of dozens of hair of children and went to the annual shareholders meeting of Bayer in Germany to confront the corporations with its own principles. In Hawaii, politics and citizen battle with the pesticides industry. This paradise on earth has become an open-air laboratory where corporations test their futures plants and seeds. But it’s also experienced an explosion in birth defects on the island and residents voted against the massive use of pesticides in the fields close to schools and hospital. So the pesticide industry sued them to enable the use of pesticides to continue. Filmed in France, Germany, Haiwaii, Belgium and USA, this documentary reveals how some chemical corporations endanger the health of our children. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JavaFilms/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/java_films