French speakers should check out Marie-Monique Robin's Le Monde selon Monsanto, fresh from the publishing house. An extremely impressive collection of so-far unsaid or semi-hidden truths about the monster behind the seeds of death. You will most certainly want to buy and eat organic after this. Ms Robin's excellent documentary is also available on DVD.
And those who can stomach kiwi humour can try watching Jonathan King's Black Sheep.
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Interesting film. Tried to locate the English version but only found a copy to purchase. Patenting of living life forms is a crazy twist of patent law. I am surprised that Monsanto was allowed to patent genetic code of seeds from the archives, since these were not really discovered/invented by Monsanto. Patenting of GM organisms is more complex to evaluate, I suppose, since the organism was actually created by GM. Still, an evil thing to do. And the claims that seed spread by natural mechanisms is still infrigement of the patent is outright hilarious. I can't believe that something like that could be enforceable. Almost too hard to swallow.
Hard to swallow, yes. I watched the French documentary "The world according to Monsanto" yesterday. It's extremely interesting and extremely shocking of course. Today Monsanto is known as a biotech firm, but in the past it was a chemical company with a far broader scope. It was Monsanto that developed and marketed Agent Orange for instance, and it was Monsanto that in 2001 was found guilty of decades of pollution (PCBs) that caused the death and illness of thousands of people in Anniston, Alabama. Monsanto was also found guilty of false and deceptive advertising on several occasions (France, 2007, for instance, for using the terms "biodegradable" and "protects the environment" on the Round Up Ready label), of bribing scientists or getting others fired for doing research on the negative effects of GMOs on human health or biodiversity ... the list is soooo long (and sooo depressing). You should try and get hold of the DVD, it should be available in English pretty soon. It's just incredible how such a company can go on registering billion-dollar profits in the light of all this! This world is just crazy.
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