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1 online resource (385 pages) |
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Contents; Preface A Book for Public Health; Introduction The Monsanto Question; part i One of the Great Polluters of Industrial History; 1 PCBs: White-Collar Crime; 2 Dioxin: A Polluter Working with the Pentagon; 3 Dioxin: Manipulation and Corruption; 4 Roundup: A Massive Brainwashing Operation; 5 The Bovine Growth Hormone Affair, Part One: The Food and Drug Administration Under the Influence; 6 The Bovine Growth Hormone Affair, Part Two: The Art of Silencing Dissenting Voices; part ii GMOs: The Great Conspiracy; 7 The Invention of GMOs; 8 Scientists Suppressed |
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9 Monsanto Weaves Its Web, 1995199910 The Iron Law of the Patenting of Life; 11 Transgenic Wheat: Monsanto's Lost Battle in North America; part iii Monsanto's GMOs Storm the South; 12 Mexico: Seizing Control of Biodiversity; 13 In Argentina: The Soybeans of Hunger; 14 Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina: The "United Soy Republic"; 15 India: The Seeds of Suicide; 16 How Multinational Corporations Control the World's Food; Conclusion A Colossus with Feet |
| Summary |
The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia), The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giantthe world's leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms)and how its new "green" face is no less malign than its PCB- and Agent Orangesoaked past. Robin reports that, following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto is now marketing |
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Print version record |
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Monsanto Company.
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Monsanto Company fast |
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Agricultural innovations -- Social aspects -- United States
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Agricultural chemicals industry -- Social aspects
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Agricultural chemicals -- Environmental aspects.
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Agricultural chemicals industry -- Corrupt practices
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Social responsibility of business.
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Food supply
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Human rights and globalization.
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Agricultural chemicals -- Environmental aspects
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Agricultural innovations -- Social aspects
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Food supply
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Human rights and globalization
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Social responsibility of business
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781595585363 |
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1595585362 |
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