How safe is the so-called “Green Genetic Engineering” really? Monsanto, the world’s largest genetic engineering corporation, insists it is safe. Numerous studies claim genetically modified plants can cause allergies and cancers. However, commercial and political interests are determined to make genetic engineering the norm. The meteoric rise of influence in the field of genetics enables shady corporate practices that are beginning to bubble up. Segment 1 (9:00 min)
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on Jun 8th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I’ve always founf this issue quite disturbing. The least worrying factor for me is how the food will affect my own body. I am more worried about the high use of chemicals in the growing of the foods and most importantly about the grip that Monsanto has over farmers with their patents. The cronyism and insider links to government was taken to new heights under GW Bush…
I know I have mentioned this documentary “Big Sugar” before which raises so many similar issues…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XS06LTjtvI
on Jun 9th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Thanks for the link, Sean…
on Jun 9th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
This is one giant smorgasboard of fucked-upness. From turning a source of life into a source of death (engineering plants to secrete pesticides), to patenting life forms, to posing a massive threat to biodiversity and third-world farmers, these guys take the absolute biscuit, as we say in England. Not only that, but you know Plan Columbia? (spraying not only coca crops but pristine rainforest, killing Ecuadorian children, you name it… Monsanto gets massive subsidies from that as it’s the firm’s Round-Up Ultra that’s used… madness. I ran a piece on the spin that surrounds this at Common Dreams, check it out if you’re interested… http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/26-4