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Contract Farmer Exploitation Imperils Food Integrity

Topics: 
Food safety, Monsanto, GMO, Food industry
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2

Shelley Walden – October 24, 2011

Today the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food released a report to the UN General Assembly that explores the effects that the world-wide expansion of contract farming has on the right to food.

The report describes how these contract arrangements, in which farmers agree to provide their products to processing or marketing companies at pre-set prices, can result in negative environmental, social and economic impacts, such as an increase in local food prices and the expanded use of fertilizers and pesticides at the expense of human health.

Monsanto Interests Guide U.S. Diplomacy, WikiLeaks Cables Show

Topics: 
Monsanto, GMO
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3

Sarah Damian – August 29, 2011

We know Monsanto and other biotech giants have been pushing genetically modified crops around the globe, but new diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks last week make it clear how entangled our government is in corporate agricultural interests.

U.S. diplomats have certainly been making an effort to protect GM interests abroad. Truthout reports:

The World According To Monsanto

Topics: 
Dr. Shiv Chopra, Drug safety, Monsanto, GMO, Genetically modified organisms, Movies
Rating: 
4

The World According to Monsanto (1:48)
This documentary explores Monsanto's controversial history and its efforts to gain control of the food supply by marketing its patented genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Features the Health Canada whistleblower Dr. Shiv Chopra and his colleagues, who exposed Health Canada's attempts to approve inadequately tested drugs, including Monsanto's bovine growth hormone (rBGH).

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