February 19th, 2009 By Paula Crossfield
Seed and chemical giant Monsanto and friends have lately been conducting all-out re-branding campaigns, seeking to present themselves as the answer to world hunger and the actualization of sustainability. As an extension of this tight message control, Oxfam is hosting a panel discussion at the Asia Society in New York tomorrow at 8:30 am called “The Global Food Crisis – Time for Another Green Revolution?“ But the discussion seems like it will be rather one-sided. Read More
Tags: biotechnology, Gates Foundation, Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs), GM seed, green-washing, Monsanto, New Green Revolution, panel discussion, raj patel, Tom Philpott
January 1st, 2009 By Paula Crossfield
For months, I’d been planning to see the French television documentary The World According to Monsanto (Le Monde selon Monsanto, also to be released in spring 2009 in book form), made for the French-German network Arte by the journalist Marie-Monique Robin, which premiered in France March 11, 2008. Having plenty of reasons to despise Monsanto (Agent Orange, PCBs, global food domination) I thought that this film would only confirm what I knew about the giant agribusiness firm, which controls between 70%-100% of the GM market share for various crops. Well, I was wrong. There was more to fear, and seeing it all on film made it more concrete. Read More
Tags: agribusiness, contamination, documentary, farmer suicide, film, GM seed, GMOs, Monsanto, rBGH
