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A book and a documentary signed Marie-Monique Robin paint a portrait of this giant of agrochemicals, inventor of some of the worst pollutants on the planet.
It is a mission accomplished hi public that Marie-Monique Robin. It took three years of investigation to this freelance journalist to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle and dresser, in a dense book and a documentary to be broadcast on Arte early March (1), a shocking Monsanto, in this superb multinationationale slogan: "Food, Health and Hope".
This firm has produced many of the worst products that have poisoned our planet and our health ruined: PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls, persistent organic pollutants better known in France under the name of pyralene), as devastating herbicide Agent Orange used during the war, Vietnam, dioxyne at the outset, for example, the disaster in Seveso in Italy in 1976, and Roundup, the herbicide so familiar to gardeners, long touted as "biodegradable and good for the environment" (which won to the firm to be convicted in the United States and then to France for misleading advertising), which has proven carcinogen. Today, Monsanto is the world leader in GMO.
"Currently available on the Internet"
Award winner Albert-Londres (1995), director of numerous documentaries, Marie-Monique Robin says modestly: it was enough to search the Internet to find all the necessary ground at the beginning of his work. "The vast majority of documents that I quote in my book, and she writes in the introduction, is available on the World Wide Web. Suffice it to look for them and linking them, I invite the reader to do, because It is really fascinating: everything is and nobody can reasonably say that it was not. "
Declassified documents, reports, press articles: This is actually not the first time that the company founded in 1901 in Saint-Louis in Missouri is being called into question, its products and its highly controversial past sulphur. But the work of Marie-Monique Robin is remarkable and saviour, because it gives meaning to all these scattered pieces.
Tenacity and discipline
The journalist went to investigate the United States, Norway, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Paraguay, India ... For whenever, "confront the word of Monsanto to the reality on the ground". Even though the firm of Missouri has always refused to answer his questions. Strategy usual this company with respect to any journalist who did not seem "asset" to his cause.
With tenacity and thoroughness, the journalist has received many unpublished testimonies and met many "whistle-blowers" Most of the time researchers who dénonçé, "she wrote" manipulation here, is a lie, or human tragedies repeated "and who paid by severe personal or professional, Monsanto opting for a discréditation merciless to those who dare to challenge the merits of its products.
A billion dollars in profits in 2007
In tracing the history of this beast agrochemicals - 17,500 employees, a turnover of 7.5 billion in 2007 (of which one billion profit) and a presence in 46 countries - who prefers to report on his website as an "agricultural enterprise" whose goal is "to help farmers in the world to produce healthier foods," Marie-Monique Robin shows that the company has always adopted the same attitude: informed of the health risks and Environmental induced by its products, "she locks the data in a drawer and said nothing to health authorities, and especially not to his workers."
And like any journalist who was working on Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin asks: "How human beings like me can they consciously run the risk of poisoning their customers and the environment without thinking for a moment that they themselves or their children may be victims of their negligence? "
Exponential Growth
Today, the real danger comes, according to the journalist, the exponential growth of GM crops, which covered about 100 million hectares in 2007, of which 90% correspond to genetic characteristics patented by Monsanto. Again, Marie-Monique Robin has the merit of pointing the real danger of GMOs, and thus to illuminate the profound meaning of the struggle José Bové mowers and volunteers. Tools designed to impose a new world order ensuring global agricultural dominance of a few firms agrosemencières, GMOs threaten the global genetic diversity and deprive farmers of their independence and aboriginal right to trade seeds.
In addition, shows Marie-Monique Robin, studies sufficient to check the safety of GMOs have never been carried out because of the "principle of substantial equivalence" which establishes a transgenic plant is identical to a plan unmodified , and that therefore the experiments are useless!
new documentary fom Marie Monique Robin about Monsanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Monique_Robin
Blog of Mrs Robin about her documentary (in French) :
http://blogs.arte.tv/LemondeselonMonsanto/frontUser.do?method=getHomePage
Some facts:
http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirtysecrets/annistonindepth/toxicity.asp
It is a mission accomplished hi public that Marie-Monique Robin. It took three years of investigation to this freelance journalist to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle and dresser, in a dense book and a documentary to be broadcast on Arte early March (1), a shocking Monsanto, in this superb multinationationale slogan: "Food, Health and Hope".
This firm has produced many of the worst products that have poisoned our planet and our health ruined: PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls, persistent organic pollutants better known in France under the name of pyralene), as devastating herbicide Agent Orange used during the war, Vietnam, dioxyne at the outset, for example, the disaster in Seveso in Italy in 1976, and Roundup, the herbicide so familiar to gardeners, long touted as "biodegradable and good for the environment" (which won to the firm to be convicted in the United States and then to France for misleading advertising), which has proven carcinogen. Today, Monsanto is the world leader in GMO.
"Currently available on the Internet"
Award winner Albert-Londres (1995), director of numerous documentaries, Marie-Monique Robin says modestly: it was enough to search the Internet to find all the necessary ground at the beginning of his work. "The vast majority of documents that I quote in my book, and she writes in the introduction, is available on the World Wide Web. Suffice it to look for them and linking them, I invite the reader to do, because It is really fascinating: everything is and nobody can reasonably say that it was not. "
Declassified documents, reports, press articles: This is actually not the first time that the company founded in 1901 in Saint-Louis in Missouri is being called into question, its products and its highly controversial past sulphur. But the work of Marie-Monique Robin is remarkable and saviour, because it gives meaning to all these scattered pieces.
Tenacity and discipline
The journalist went to investigate the United States, Norway, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Paraguay, India ... For whenever, "confront the word of Monsanto to the reality on the ground". Even though the firm of Missouri has always refused to answer his questions. Strategy usual this company with respect to any journalist who did not seem "asset" to his cause.
With tenacity and thoroughness, the journalist has received many unpublished testimonies and met many "whistle-blowers" Most of the time researchers who dénonçé, "she wrote" manipulation here, is a lie, or human tragedies repeated "and who paid by severe personal or professional, Monsanto opting for a discréditation merciless to those who dare to challenge the merits of its products.
A billion dollars in profits in 2007
In tracing the history of this beast agrochemicals - 17,500 employees, a turnover of 7.5 billion in 2007 (of which one billion profit) and a presence in 46 countries - who prefers to report on his website as an "agricultural enterprise" whose goal is "to help farmers in the world to produce healthier foods," Marie-Monique Robin shows that the company has always adopted the same attitude: informed of the health risks and Environmental induced by its products, "she locks the data in a drawer and said nothing to health authorities, and especially not to his workers."
And like any journalist who was working on Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin asks: "How human beings like me can they consciously run the risk of poisoning their customers and the environment without thinking for a moment that they themselves or their children may be victims of their negligence? "
Exponential Growth
Today, the real danger comes, according to the journalist, the exponential growth of GM crops, which covered about 100 million hectares in 2007, of which 90% correspond to genetic characteristics patented by Monsanto. Again, Marie-Monique Robin has the merit of pointing the real danger of GMOs, and thus to illuminate the profound meaning of the struggle José Bové mowers and volunteers. Tools designed to impose a new world order ensuring global agricultural dominance of a few firms agrosemencières, GMOs threaten the global genetic diversity and deprive farmers of their independence and aboriginal right to trade seeds.
In addition, shows Marie-Monique Robin, studies sufficient to check the safety of GMOs have never been carried out because of the "principle of substantial equivalence" which establishes a transgenic plant is identical to a plan unmodified , and that therefore the experiments are useless!
new documentary fom Marie Monique Robin about Monsanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Monique_Robin
Blog of Mrs Robin about her documentary (in French) :
http://blogs.arte.tv/LemondeselonMonsanto/frontUser.do?method=getHomePage
Some facts:
http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirtysecrets/annistonindepth/toxicity.asp
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