World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Politics and Power info
Winner of the Rachel Carson prize, an explosive exposé of the disturbing practices of the world s most influential multinational agricultural corporation. 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 giant the world s leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and how its new green face is no less malign than its PCB- and Agent Orange soaked past. Robin reports that, following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto is now marketing itself as a life sciences company, seemingly convinced about the virtues of sustainable development. However, Monsanto now controls the majority of the yield of the world s genetically modified corn and soy ingredients found in more than 95 pe
