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Is Monsanto a Template for Agribusiness?

I was wondering when someone would point out the risks of introducing GMO seeds into the environment.

What "Sober Realist" left out for those that praise Monsanto and other GMO'ers is the very real risk of massive lawsuits for releasing these Frankenseeds into the environment. Active multi-billion dollar efforts are already underway in Canada and India.

Canadian organic farmers are targeting Monsanto for promoting GMO soybean and other seed stock to non-organic farmers with a dusty roadway as the only barrier preventing contamination. Same for promoting these to lower tier countries, such as India.

The programs tagged in the post from "Sober Realist" are really only the tip of the iceberg, and I wouldn't be dismissive of the potential that this company could go the way of "Bhopal".


On Apr 04 11:35 AM Sober Realist wrote:

> Monsanto = Corporate control of our food source. I didn't realize
> how evil this company was until I saw this documentary last night
> (first time aired on TV in America:
>
> March 23, 2009
> Link TV to air The Future of Food this week
> By Rady Ananda
>
> Joining the growing conversation about genetically modified foods
> and the tactics of transnational corporations, Link TV will air The
> Future of Food this week. Click here for air times:
> www.linktv.org/program...
>
> Deborah Koons Garcia's groundbreaking film from 2004 can also be
> found at Google video:
> video.google.com/video...
>
> This is Link TV's intro:
>
>
> Is there anything more important than knowing where our food comes
> from, and who controls what we eat? The documentary The Future of
> Food has the disturbing answers. Today's food chain is far more complicated
> than the traditional farmer to table model - it has become a vertically
> integrated industrial complex. And with government looking the other
> way, genetically modified seeds have found their way into our food
> supply. The time has come to take back our food.
>
>
> This Link TV special, hosted by celebrated environmental journalist
>
> Mark Hertsgaard, investigates the corporate dominance of our world's
> food systems. We are joined in the studio by the filmmaker of The
> Future of Food, Deborah Koons Garcia, as well as University of California
> biologist Ignacio Chapela, founder of The Mycological Facility in
> Oaxaca, Mexico, a facility dealing with questions of natural resources
> and indigenous rights. Koons Garcia's documentary The Future of Food
> offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind
> the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly
> filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
>
>
> From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca,
> Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods
> have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health
> implications, government policies and push towards globalization
> are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction
> of genetically altered crops into our food supply. The film also
> explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing
> organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm
> crisis today.
>
>
> LEARN MORE:
> Link TV's Food issue webpage
> www.linktv.org/food
> The Future of Food official site
> www.thefutureoffood.com/
> Ignacio Chapela at UC Berkeley
> ecnr.berkeley.edu/facP...
>
> www.seedsofdeception.c...
>
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