Spencer Hamilton interview about Monsanto

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http://www.skateboardermag.com/features/spencer-hamilton-vs-the-food-industry/

e author in particular is Michael Pollan. I honestly didn?t grow up reading anything. I read my first fucking book when I was in high school, literally. The second I found shit I was interested in I couldn?t stop. I was baffled by what they give you to read at school, it?s bullshit!
So yeah, a good one by Michael Pollan would be The Omnivores? Dilemma. What?s cool about him is he doesn?t approach it like a scientist. He?s just a normal person who wants to know what?s going on, and he happens to be a journalist. The way he writes is factual and interesting at the same time, not boring or dry.
During that whole phase of reading intense books like that, I?d double them by going to the internet and watching hours and hours of lectures by all the authors I had read. It?s not really something you can watch with other people, like: ?Oh yeah sick, let?s watch this three-hour conference about food issues!? But I was into it?

Did it drastically change your daily life?
In a sense, because it also addresses the way people think. I used to have crazy anxiety and go through little bouts of depression or crazy rages or things like that. I never understood why I was like that because I had no reason to be pissed off. When I moved out I was all about learning about the way you think and what?s going on, and more generally the way you treat people.

When did you see the super scary documentary ?The World According to Monsanto,? showing how the corporation is pretty much holding the planet?s food supplies by the balls?
We went to China in 2009 when I was around 19. The really good thing about it is that it gives you a real overview of everything. It?s basic, comprehensive, easy to understand and the director?s talking to you like a normal person. You start to see where food is coming from and what?s really going on.





So you were super militant about having ?Monsanto Kills? as a graphic, I?d guess?
Not at all! To be honest, I didn?t put one piece of input on my graphic at all, I swear. That?s the funny part, it?s just the way I was towards everybody at Expedition, talking about Monsanto all the time ? they thought it was perfect. All I knew is that I wanted something that was real, not some random graphic. It takes a certain someone to have something like that. It?s a risky thing for me ? I mean, I could have just put out a weed graphic board that would have been a sure sell. But the really cool thing is that some people actually look at it. I got so much feedback. I hope it plants a seed in people?s head, too. I got kids hitting me up on Instagram asking, ?What?s Monsanto?? I?m like, ?Look it up if you want to know!? That?s really cool. Now if some dude is all into video games or something, who the fuck wants to see a graphic of some dude by himself playing video games? Maybe people do like that, but me personally? I?d rather say something.

Special Thanks: Chany Jeanguenin and Matt Daughters

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dude, you suck.

edit: to clarify, I mean Tracer. Spencer is awesome.