Label GMO Disco: Dana’s First Disco Video!
Filming “Label GMO Disco”
I spent the month of September, 2013 filming “Label GMO Disco” (a parody of the Village People’s “YMCA”) to be used as part of an education campaign to help pass Washington State Initiative 522. Initiative 522 promotes our right to know by requiring the labeling of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in foods.
Label GMO Disco Lyrics
(Sung to the tune of YMCA by The Village People)
Don’t worry
What could possibly go wrong
We mix fruit trees
With the genes of a frog
We’ve got scientists
Who are smarter than God
We can make things better
Flounder
In the tomato
A little human
In the rice that we sow
Mouse genes
Really make a pig grow
And we’ll make tons of money
CHORUS
Label GMO, we’ve got a right to know it
Label GMO
We ain’t in the mood
To have you mess with our food
Keep your hands off our peas and carrots
We patent food seed
So you have to pay
It blows freely
To the next farmer’s hay
Then we can sue him
The very next day
Every day’s a payday
CHORUS