
The World According to Monsanto
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The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsantotells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant-the world's leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms)-and how its new "green" face is no less malign than its PCB- and Agent Orange-soaked past.
Robin reports that, following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto is now marketing itself as a "life sciences" company, seemingly convinced about the virtues of sustainable development. However, 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.
Released alongside the documentary film of the same name, The World According to Monsantois sure to change the way we think about food safety and the corporate control of our food supply.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I - One of the Great Polluters of Industrial History
- 1 - PCBs: White-Collar Crime
- The Origins of Monsanto
- Half a Million Pages of Secret Documents
- Monsanto Knew, and Said Nothing
- "Criminal" Conduct
- Complicity and Manipulation
- A Poison as Toxic as Dioxin
- Denial Now and Forever
- PCBs Are Everywhere
- 2 - Dioxin: A Polluter Working with the Pentagon
- A Town Wiped Off the Map
- Monsanto Avoids Responsibility
- The Herbicide 2,4,5-T and Dioxin
- Long Live War
- Operation Ranch Hand and Agent Orange
- The Conspiracy
- Monsanto Organizes to Protect Itself
- 3 - Dioxin: Manipulation and Corruption
- Falsified Scientific Studies
- Hunting Down the Whistle-Blowers
- The EPA Obeys Orders
- Collusion Between Government and Industry
- Corruption: The Richard Doll Affair
- The Damned of Vietnam
- 4 - Roundup: A Massive Brainwashing Operation
- The Most Widely Sold Herbicide in the World
- A Double Fraud
- "False Advertising"
- The Very Problematic Process of Pesticide Registration
- Roundup Triggers the First Stage of the Development of Cancer
- "A Killer of Embryos"
- Colombia's Agent Orange
- 5 - The Bovine Growth Hormone Affair, Part One: The Food and Drug ...
- Fired for "Incompetence"
- The Secret Data of Monsanto and the FDA
- A Manipulated Article in the Journal Science
- A Serious Public Health Problem
- Extreme Pressure
- Welcome to the World of the Revolving Door
- 6 - The Bovine Growth Hormone Affair, Part Two: The Art of Silencing ...
- Labeling Prohibited under Threat of Legal Action
- Illegal Propaganda
- Massacre on the Farm
- Lobbying and Control of the Press
- An Attempt at Corruption in Canada
- A Testing Ground for GMOs
- PART II - GMOs: The Great Conspiracy
- 7 - The Invention of GMOs
- The Scramble for Genes
- The Triumph of Genetic Tinkering
- The "Artificial Cassette" of Roundup Ready Soybeans
- Maneuvers in the White House
- Political Regulation Made to Order
- The Amazing Trick of the Principle of Substantial Equivalence
- The L-Tryptophan Affair: A Strange Fatal Epidemic
- 8 - Scientists Suppressed
- No Consensus at the FDA
- The Myth of Regulation
- The Unshakable Team of Maryanski and Taylor
- The Champion of the Revolving Door
- Dan Glickman: "I Had a Lot of Pressure on Me"
- Scientists under the Influence
- A Questionable Study
- Bad Science
- Fear of Monsanto
- 9 - Monsanto Weaves Its Web, 1995-1999
- The Accursed Potatoes
- The Arpad Pusztai Affair: Hounding the Dissident
- Monsanto, Clinton, and Blair: Effective Pressures
- Robert Shapiro, the Guru of Monsanto
- The New Monsanto Will Save the World
- The Race for Seeds
- The Terminator Patent: One Step Too Far for Monsanto
- CEO Musical Chairs
- 10 - The Iron Law of the Patenting of Life
- The Weapon of Patents
- The New Agricultural Order
- The Gene Police
- "We Own Anybody That Buys Our Products"
- Everyone Is Afraid
- Percy Schmeiser: A Rebel in Big Sky Country
- When GMO Contamination Produces Superweeds
- GMOs Mean Ever More Herbicides
- The Dark Side of Biotechnology
- An Economic Disaster
- 11 - Transgenic Wheat: Monsanto's Lost Battle in North America
- Monsanto Flops with Wheat
- The Attack on Bt Plants: The Misfortunes of the Monarch Butterfly
- The StarLink Debacle
- No to GM Wheat
- When Transgenic Canola Eliminates Organic Canola: Inevitable Contamination
- PART III - Monsanto's GMOs Storm the South
- 12 - Mexico: Seizing Control of Biodiversity
- The Transgenic Conquest of Mexican Corn
- The Media Lynching of Ignacio Chapela
- Monsanto's Dirty Tricks
- An Absolute Power
- The Monsters of Oaxaca
- 13 - In Argentina: The Soybeans of Hunger
- Taking Over Argentina
- The Magic Seeds
- Soybeans Take Over the Country
- Rebel Soybeans: Toward the Sterilization of the Soil
- A Public Health Disaster
- Banging One's Head Against the Wall
- Expulsion and Deforestation
- 14 - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina: The "United Soy Republic"
- Silvino, Age Eleven, Killed by Roundup in Paraguay
- Smuggled Seeds
- Time to Collect
- The New Conquistadores
- Soy's Musclemen and Repression
- The Soy Dictatorship
- 15 - India: The Seeds of Suicide
- Three Suicides a Day
- Hijacking Indian Cotton
- The Dramatic Failure of Monsanto's Transgenic Cotton
- Propaganda and Monopoly
- Insect Resistance to Bt Plants: A Time Bomb
- 16 - How Multinational Corporations Control the World's Food
- The "Only" Goal of the Second Green Revolution Is to Increase Monsanto's Profits
- Patents on Life, or Economic Colonization
- Monsanto and the Multinational Corporations Behind the WTO Agreement on ...
- The WTO: A Veritable Nightmare
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright Page
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