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Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Here's an important documentary to watch if you care to know what exactly could be on your dinner table. See how international farmers are being bullied by one "agricultural company". See how this company is killing the wonderful diversity of the world's food crops to control world food production remotely from its headquaters in the U.S. This might sound like fiction and I wish it were. But it's real.

The World According To Monsanto, a French / Canadian co-op film production is a very credible source. The documantary was produced in conjunction with the National Film Board of Canada so you can be sure that the facts have been checked. But as with all documantaries, you must see it and be the judge. Enjoy! Share it with a friend.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly - Not sold on Amazon.com, the U.S. website, but available on Amazon.ca, the Canadian one. http://www.amazon.ca/World-According-Monsanto-Marie-Monique-Robin/dp/B001BBQCMC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228877241&sr=8-1

YouTube Links - The FULL Movie in 8 parts

Watch Part One and continue. The next parts are on the YouTube page on the right side under "Related Videos".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hErvV5YEHkE

sojourner1 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:

Back home in St. Louis, Monsanto is well known to be evil, but is said to offer the best good jobs though it's unknown who does these jobs. There's no way these garbage products are any good for the environment and inside our bodies. It's only about maximizing profits at everyone's cost with no regard to the future of life on Earth.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Monsanto is poisoning the earth and killing people. They're so greedy that in a company memo, they said that they didn't want to lose even $1 in profits - not even $1.

They make Wal-Mart look like angels.

mistermasan · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

east of st.louis on the illinois side is an old monsanto plant. completely shuttered save a skeleton crew of about 5 people. completely toxic. will never be closed down. if monsanto were to do such, they'd have to clean it up and that is money they don't want spent.

if this is what they do in their backyard, imagine what'll do to places where they don't live.

(no shortage of st.louis folks doing ESL abroad.)

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:42 am Post subject:

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

This is what imagined was the ulterior motive for the American beef scare - it's introduced cheaply for consumers to the market, then there becomes dependence on it as local suppliers are pushed out, then the prices rise steeply. It was probably fortunate for the Korean farmer that the mad cow came about.
The India example where Monsanto first introduced biotech-plants is a case in point, where now seeds are four times more than a decade ago, and where farmers cannot buy traditional seeds anymore.
Mexico, GM seeds are half the price of traditional seeds, as Monsanto is just breaking the market. Wait a few years, prices will be higher.

That's just the market side of the problem. How about the health and social sides of it?

Itaewon guy is right, one should buy shares in this group - if you have no moral conscience.