I didn't know what Monsanto was before I watched Food Inc. in our Food and Nutrition class. I read this article at www.rt.com where they talked about Monsanto still have the ability to crush countries on legal battlefield. It is known that France is by far the only country attempting to get rid of Monsanto's maize. The billion dollar corporation is located no other than the United States, where there are protesters in the streets who seemed to care. There is a Occupy Monsanto movement where thousands of people joined in March where they marched through Washington, DC, Seattle, and LA. The prtesters accused the biotech giant of the anti-competitive actions like cleaing its reputation with multi-billion dollar cash and bankrupting independent farmers in order to force them into using their genetically-engineered seeds. The movement is planning to launch another round of protests during the harvesting season in 2012.
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