Community | January 16, 2009 | 6 comments

The World According to Monsanto

source: http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/19334

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How much outrage can a single multinational corporation inspire? How much damage can they inflict? The new film The World According to Monsanto features a company that sets the new standard. From Iowa to Paraguay, from England to India, Monsanto is uprooting our food supply and replacing it with their patented genetically engineered creations. Along the way, farmers, communities, and nature become collateral damage.

The film is the work of celebrated award-winning French filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, whose three years of work on four continents exposes why Monsanto has become the world's poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology. Combining secret documents with accounts by victims, scientists, and policy makers, she guides us through a web of misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption. We learn how the company systematically tricked governments into allowing dangerous genetically modified (GM) foods into our diet—with Monsanto in charge of determining if they're safe.
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6 comments // The World According to Monsanto

  • judiestar
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    • "The National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy entered into a cooperative agreement with USDA Foreign Agricultural Serviece to provide training and education for officials and regulators from China. This program is funded by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and is admiistered by the Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Program"

      So now they have our masters, China, in their pockets too...

    • 3 years ago
  • judiestar
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    • At the link is a list of congresspeople and senators who hve taken Monsanto's dirty money. I was relieved that Obama's name was not among them.

      I just wrote this email: "How can you continue, as you have for so long, to receive DIRTY money from Monsanto? Is your campaign pocketbook more important than the health and welfare of the people you supposedly serve? Shame on you sir. You do not deserve the position you hold. Redeem yourself by publicly condemning this evil company and rejecting their filthy, blood-stained money. Monsanto has murdered countless people around the world. How can you look at yourself in the mirror?" to Senator Dick Durbin from IL. I will not be surprised if something bad happens to me now.

    • 3 years ago
  • judiestar
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      judiestar  

    • My God what is this world coming to? How do these people continue to get away with this shit? Are governments really this gullible? I am sick.

    • 3 years ago
  • hallcrash2000
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    • what can i say? we don't even know if what we're eating is GM foods or not so how to avoid how to boycott how to be aware when we have no help? i will support my local farmers. the FDA must do something and labeling is very necessary.

    • 3 years ago
  • ampersand
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    • Monsanto is an exemplary model of capitalism and a insane and toxic scourge on the planet.
      However, there may yet be better living through chemistry if they inadvertently lay waste to only half the earth. Let's hope there are some pockets of green left.
      Don't our best sci-fi fantasies always end that way?

    • 3 years ago
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