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The World According to Monsanto

If this trailer doesn’t creep you out about genetically modified food, I don’t know what will. “The World According to Monsanto” is a french documentary directed by Marie-Monique Robin that paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

According to the YouTube description,
Monsanto is the world [...]

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Genetically Modified Crops Reach 9 Percent of Global Crop Production

Frankencrops reached 9 percent of global primary crop production in 2007, according to Worldwatch Institute estimates published in the latest Vital Signs Update. The United States is still the leader in producing GMO crops, accounting for half of the global total.
From the Environmental News Network:
“GM crops are definitely not a silver bullet,” said Alice McKeown, [...]

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Monsanto Says Hormone-Pumped Cows are Good for the Environment

Cornell University researchers, along with Monsanto, have said that injecting dairy cows with Monsanto’s recombitant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) is good for the environment. They claim that rBGH makes each cow produce more milk, so we would then need fewer cows, therefore we’d need less land and resources to raise dairy cows. In [...]

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