Politics & Government

Prop. 37 Video: "If You Knew What We Were Putting in Your Food"

L.A.-based songwriter crafts country music satire for the "Yes on 37" campaign.

 A Los Angeles-based political satire street theater collective has created a new music video, "If You Knew What We Were Putting In Your Food," which characterizes the corporate strategy against Prop. 37.

If approved by voters on Nov. 6, California Proposition 37 would mandate labeling of GMO [genetically modified organisms] food and offer consumers a choice when they shop.

The L.A. street theater collective, dubbed "The Billionaires," said they created the video in response to the more than $30 million that Monsanto, DuPont and their other Biotech and Big Agra partners are spending to defeat Prop. 37.

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The video is built around a song, "If You Knew What We Were Putting in Your Food," by songwriter Clifford J. Tasner [see lyrics below].

You can hear more music by The Billionaires including their brand new album, "Let's Get A CEO to Run The Show" at their website, www.thebillionaires.org

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Lyrics:

If you knew what we were putting in your food,

Well you might not want to buy it.

You might even change your diet.

So if nobody knows when you eat our G. M. O.s, you will never ever have a chance to choose.

Corn and soy and wheat and beans have all been spliced with foreign genes.

The seeds we're selling far and wide survive our potent herbicide.

There's not a test we have to do to prove our goods are good for you.

And people who were in our pay got hired by the F. D. A.

And they're the folks who quickly moved to see our products got approved.

And these get added more and more to items at your grocery store.

Most food you feed your family is modified genetically.

But if it said it on the label, you could keep it off your table!

Well that's one label you can't see!

So now we're spending lots of dough on ads we're running on T. V. to get you to vote NO!

If you knew what we were putting in your food,

Well you might not want to buy it.

You might even change your diet.

So if nobody knows when you eat our G. M. O.s, you will never ever have a chance to choose.

You might think we're bein’ rude.

You might cop an attitude, if you knew what we were put-ting in your food!

 

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