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Infuriating, March 19, 2009
This review is from: The World According to Monsanto ( Le Monde selon Monsanto ) ( Monsanto, mit Gift und Gene ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - France ] (DVD)
This film needs to be released in the US! It starts with a small town in Alabama at the grave of the "baby brother" of the man being interviewed. The kid died of a series of cancers. Then the director talks to the people in town, largely black. It seems Monsanto made PCBs for years. Yeah, but the company also dropped them into the stream (into which fish died inside of 3 1/2 minutes!) And it buried its wastes, hence the diseases and the citizens having levels of PCBs in their systems at levels sometimes a couple of thousand times over acceptable levels.
Then the film covers its Roundup-immune soybeans--and that farmers even in the US must sign an agreement to NOT use seed from one year's crop to plant for the next years crop. (In other words, they must purchase the seed for the following year, and the following year, and...)
It's incredible, really. The director is a French woman who was using Google throughout the film--a "symbol" of how easy it is to find the information she found--to find law suits filed against Monsanto, or even BY Monsanto (against farmers accused of seeding with the prior year's crop), of allegations against the company, of scientists whose findings were misreprestented by the company.
It's a multi-faceted film. And the director moves from Alabama, to Iowa, to Mexico, the Scotland, to Paraguay, to India. All of these places are highly relevant. Most have laws preventing Monsanto's GMOs (genetically modified organisms)--despite the bribes the company tried to use to get into the countries. In other places, the company's products are genetically mixing with the local crops thereby threatening those crops which have been part of the culture for centuries--and cost much less to produce! In India, we're at the funeral of a young man who committed suicide as he had lost everthing.
In short, this is a documentary that all must see. Then we can decide how to address the issues, one of which of extreme important is biodiversity!
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MONSANTO - Know your enemy., October 22, 2010
Monsanto is a powerful force in this country and the world. Quietly they are working to OWN the food chain. This documentary is one that quite possibly will never be seen on mainstream corporate media in the USA. Monsanto started as a chemical company is the same one that told us DDT, Dioxin and agent Orange were good for us and they poisoned the world with it. Monsanto rather than lose "one dollar of profit" lied about the toxic affects of its products and exposed thousands upon thousands of US citizens to dioxin and condemned them to a slow and painful death. Monsanto was voted THE MOST UNETHICAL corporations in the world but somehow the USA government finds it expedient to fill important positions in the FDA with MONSANTO elite. Even the Supreme Court of the USA has a MONSANTO lawyer in it and his name is also linked to controversy - Clarence Thomas. Hilary Clinton also worked for MONSANTO. Now she is in a position which allows her to push GMO food production to the world.
I believe this documentary is on of the most important ones to come along and all must see. I also find it interesting that MONSANTO is Zionist based and pushes heavily for the use of Israeli biotech graduates to work in important positions in the USA over our own graduates. When you look at what crops are being touted as good choices for bio-fuel they are all MONSANTO products. Follow the money and see how it intertwines into the NEOCON/Zionist agenda.
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The world according to Monsanto, October 24, 2011
Check out this movie. Lots of people don't even know what a GMO is, so if you are educated about these issues, we can inform the populace, and education is the key to making sustainable/conscious decisions.
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