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With 17,500 employees, a 2006 sales figure of $7.5 billion and operations in 46 countries, Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversi...( read more  read more... )al corporations in industrial history. Since its founding in 1901, the company has faced trial after trial due to the toxicity of its products, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polystyrene, devastating herbicides like Agent Orange, used during the Vietnam War, and bovine growth hormones, which are unauthorized in Canada and banned in Europe. Today, Monsanto has reinvented itself as a "life sciences" company converted to the virtues of sustainable development. Thanks to its genetically modified seeds, engineered among other things to withstand Monsanto's Roundup, the world's bestselling herbicide, the company claims it wants to solve world hunger while reducing environmental damage. Where does the truth lie? The World According to Monsanto pieces together the story of the St. Louis, Missouri, corporation, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and first-hand accounts by scientists, civil society representatives, victims of the company's toxic activities, lawyers, politicians, and representatives of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency. Based on a three-year investigation in North and South America, Europe and Asia, the film tells the tale of an industrial empire that, thanks in part to misleading reports, collusion with the American government, pressure tactics and attempts at corruption, has become one of the world's biggest seed manufacturers. It shows how the clean, green image conveyed by the company's advertising serves as a smoke screen for Monsanto's quest for market supremacy, to the detriment of global food security and environmental stability.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 48 min.

Directed by: Marie-Monique Robin

Release Date: February 17, 2008

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  • HarryTuttle
    September 4, 2008
    HarryTuttle
    Ok, so here's the path as I understand: Monsanto's revolving door tactic with the FDA employing its lawyers and vice versa ensures the circulation of its products by hiding research results. Regarding GMOs, the farmers must buy Monsanto's fertilizers and pesticides for the crops ...( read more)to grow and are forbidden to replant the seeds or will be taken to court. Free trade ensures that Monsanto's seeds are spread across countries so that they can eventually contaminate other crops (pollen), kill the biodiversity and oblige farmers to use Monsanto's products. With the diversity of the seeds getting narrower as Monsanto dominates the market, farmers and consumers are at their mercy. If rBGH and GMOs turn out to be like PCBs, it will take years before people have concrete evidence (cancer) of their negative effects to be able to sue Monsanto who will likely resolve the case by paying a fraction of the profit they've made in compensation for the victims and the people responsible will walk free.

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