- Publisher: The New Press
- ISBN: 9781595587091
- Price: $22.95 CAD
- Publication Date: Feb 2012
- Rights: Canada
- Pages: 384
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Request Exam CopyWorld According to Monsanto
Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of our Food Supply
Marie-Monique Robin
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Named one of the top ten environmental books to read in 2010 by Mother Nature Network, The World According to Monsanto is positioned to increase awareness of what has become a serious threat to our food supply.
Contents
· Preface: A Book for Public Health by Nicolas Hulot
· 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
6. The Bovine Growth Hormone Affair, Part Two
Part II: GMOs: The Great Conspiracy
7. The Invention of GMOs
8. Scientists Suppressed
9. Monsanto Weaves Its Web, 1995–1999
10. 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 of Clay
· Notes
· Index
About the Author
Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning French journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert-Londres Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in France. She is the director and producer of over thirty documentaries and investigative reports filmed in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. She lives outside of Paris.