cakebelly says: continues: Robin, a farmer’s daughter who has spent twenty-five years as an investigative journalist, uses the film to channel her outrage, resulting in the most comprehensive film about Monsanto’s crimes to date. She takes us from Anniston, Alabama, where Monsanto dumped one million pounds of PCBs into local waterways, to rural Paraguay, where Round-Up herbicide has caused illness and physical deformation in the children, and to India, where suicide is seen as a farmer’s only retreat from Monsanto. continues: The World According to Monsanto explores Monsanto’s hundred-year history as a chemical company (the same guys that brought you Agent Orange), it’s aggressive formation and implementation of patent laws to create Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), and the heartbreaking impact its policies have on human health. All of which, says Robin, adds up to the greatest threat to human rights of our time. |
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