Can the title be any more blunt? This documentary’s plot is a conspiracy theory that’s been knocking around my noggin for some time.
The Idiot Cycle looks at the links between cancer and both the petrochemical and genetically modified food industries. It appears that the petrochemical corporations that produce all our ubiquitous plastic- and chemical-based consumer products, making us ill, are the same companies who profit from the expensive pharmaceuticals to “treat” cancers and keep us alive.
The press kit points out:
- Only 2% of the world’s 100,000 synthetic chemicals have been fully tested for toxicological data;
- A secret EPA report – which the chemical industry has spent decades burying — states that 95% of cancers are caused by the environment and that more people will get cancers from dioxin pollution (caused by chemical processes like making chlorine products or pesticides) than any other cause, more than sitting out in the sun, more than smoking;
- The petrochemical industry that makes all your plastic consumer goods, automobile parts, pesticides, fertilizers, rubbers and so forth are basically six companies;
- These six companies also have a monopoly on cancer treatments and they’re the one’s that have financed and marketed “cure for cancer” runs and associations for the past decades.
- Now these same 6 companies are producing genetically modified crops, new foods have never been [adequately] tested.
The feature-length documentary — written, directed and produced by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Emmanuelle Schick Garcia — debuts in September 2009.
The official website for The Idiot Cycle is expected to launch in June/July 2009.
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