Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 9781595587091
Price: $22.95 CAD
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Rights: Canada
Pages: 384

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World According to Monsanto

Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of our Food Supply

Marie-Monique Robin

A finalist for the New York Public Library’s 2011 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the book tells the shocking story of how the new “green” face of the world’s leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) is no less malign than its PCB- and Agent Orange–soaked past. Following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto now controls the majority of the yield of the world’s genetically modified corn and soy—ingredients found in more than 95 percent of American households—and its alarming legal and political tactics to maintain this monopoly are the subject of worldwide concern, with baleful consequences for the world’s small-scale farmers.

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.

· 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.

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World According to Monsanto

Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of our Food Supply

Marie-Monique Robin

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