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Langue: anglais
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The World According to Monsanto : Pollution, Politics and Power

Marie Monique Robin. Translated from the French by George Holoch

Edit� par Tulika Books, 2010

ISBN 10 : 818948768X ISBN 13 : 9788189487683

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Soft cover. Etat : New. Contents: Preface: a book for public health by Nicolas Hulot. Introduction: the Monsanto question. I. One of the great polluters of industrial history: 1. PCBs: white collar crime. 2. Dioxin: a polluter working with the Pentagon. 3. Dioxin: manipulation and corruption. 4. Roundup: a massive brainwashing operation. 5. The Bovine growth Hormone affair, part One. 6. The Bovine growth Hormone affair, part two. II. GMOs: the great conspiracy: 7. The invention of GMOs. 8. Scientists suppressed. 9. Monsanto weaves its web, 1995 1999. 10. The iron law of the patenting of life. 11. Transgenic wheat: Monsanto's lost battle in North America. III. Monsanto's GMOs storm the south: 12. Mexico: Seizing control of biodiversity. 13. In Argentina: the soybeans of hunger. 14. Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina: the United Soy Republic. 15. India: the seeds of suicide. 16. How multinational corporations control the world's food. Conclusion: a colossus with feet of clay. Notes. Index. The result of a remarkable three year long investigation that took award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the little known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant the worlds leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) its new and dubious green face and its problematic PCB and agent orange soaked past. Robin reports that, following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto is now marketing itself as a life sciences company, seemingly convinced about the virtues of sustainable development. However, Monsanto now controls the majority of the yield of the worlds genetically modified corn and soy ingredients fond in a high percentage of households and its legal and political tactics in maintain this monopoly is the subject of worldwide concern. Released to great acclaim and controversy in France, throughout Europe, and in Latin America alongside the documentary film of the same name, The world According to Monsanto is sure to change the way we think about food safety and our food supply. N� de r�f. du vendeur 88234

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