Last year's global food crisis made millions for
agro-giant Monsanto. Tim Hunt of Ethical Consumer
magazine fails to find any redeeming features in this corporate behemoth.
Try looking objectively at biotech firm Monsanto,
a company that only ever seems to receive a
negative press, and see if you can find any
redeeming features any ray of light emanating
from this seeming black hole of corporate
misanthropy. You will struggle. Monsanto is the
exemplar of all that is wrong with the world's
corporate-controlled food system.
Monsanto has a damning history. It worked on the
atomic bomb in the 1940s and produced the
chemical weapon Agent Orange during the Vietnam
war. More recently its herbicides have been used
to devastating effect against coca-producing peasant farmers in Colombia.
But nightmarish weapons have never been the
company's primary money-spinner. The big bucks
come from industrialised agriculture. When it
comes to food, never before has so much been
controlled by so few a situation that is
worsening as genetically modified (GM) crops and
patents are pushed further into agriculture.
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