Harvest of Fear: Monsanto Corp.

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Posted to SciTech on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 07:39:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

I first heard of the Monsanto Corporation when I watched the documentary The Future of Food (Google Video link), which talked about its deplorable business practices, including RIAA-like copyright lawsuits over seeds that sometimes result in prison terms (even if pollen from your neighbor's farm spreads genetic material to your plants, you're still liable!) and powerful lobbying efforts to prevent labeling of genetically modified food- which have resulted in serious health problems for people who've inadvertently developed antibiotic resistance as a result of eating such food.  

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