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The World According to Monsanto ( Le Monde selon Monsanto ) ( Monsanto, mit Gift und Gene ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - France ]

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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!

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.

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.

You must see this movie. It explains where your food comes from and the dangers of Monsanto's monopoly of our food.

....for goodness' sake, it's a documentary, not an episode of South Park. Maybe the Google Search format interspersed throughout is a little distracting, but hey, that's how a lot of us get our info these days anyway. If you want, you can freeze the frame so you can go to website (x) yourself and check it out more thoroughly. Easy. Plus, I don't mind watching a woman as smart, attractive and dedicated as Ms. Robin at work :)

One or two of the interviewees whose lives were ruined by Monsanto's so-called intellectual property-based lawsuits and intimidation also appear in the film Food, Inc. I hope that this film also receives the (for the US, relatively) wide distribution that it deserves.

One of the worst documentaries I have ever seen.

If you want a brief summary on how evil Monsanto is just watch Food Inc. Or simply Google Monsanto, just like the director of TWATM---Marie Robin-- does in this film. Over and over and over and over again.

A basic element of making an effective documentary is making it accessible and bearable to watch. Marie Robin fails to do this in every regard. Her main concern seems to be inserting her face into the film through the dozens and dozens of absurdly repetitive, "lady sitting at computer doing Google search followed by a quick zoom in on pixelated pictures and obtuse computer screen text for a split second" scenes. These scenes serve no purpose in communicating anything effectively to viewers. They simply annoy and eat up time that could be used to provide more information in a far more clear, organized and succinct manner.

Speaking of organized, this film is anything but. It jumps around haphazardly, with random scenes, articles and interviews connected only by the absurd "director of the film sitting at computer Google-searching" scenes. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I do not kid--this cheap and contrived device is used and abused by the director, literally, dozens and dozens of times in this film.

Yeah, Monsanto is an evil corporation. But if you want to communicate your message effectively, Marie Robin, make your film at least remotely accessible. And get rid of the effing robot narrator.