La Via Campesina denounces Gates Foundation purchase of Monsanto Company shares
Soya for Africa – The Gates Foundation opens door for Cargill
Cape Town – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to grant US$8 million to develop a soya value chain in Africa, in partnership with US non-profit organisation TechnoServe and agricultural commodity trading giant Cargill.
Outrage Over Claim that Anti-GM Campaign "Causes Hunger"
CAPE TOWN - Civil society organisations have reacted with outrage to claims that the international campaign against genetically modified (GM) crops is partly responsible for food shortages and food insecurity in Africa.
Gates Fondation invests in Monsanto
GATES FOUNDATION INVESTS IN MONSANTO
Both will profit at expense of small-scale African farmers
Monsanto: The World’s Poster Child for Corporate Manipulation and Deceit
At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan.
Europe’s biotech industry accused of modifying the truth
New report shows no problem with EU GMO laws
The Science of Wishful Thinking: ISAAA’s report on GM crops
"The developing world embraces a controversial technology," declared the title of a recent article in the Economist Magazine, referring to genetically modified (GM) crops. This is a rather shocking statement to attribute so matter-of-factly to the entire developing world. Surely, it must be supported by a rigorous and ethically sound set of research data...
Bt cotton failure a profit ploy?
NEW DELHI: Did declining profitability prompt Monsanto’s announcement that its Bt cotton variety had failed to beat the pink bollworm pest in four districts in Gujarat and could this be part of a ploy to promote its second generation GM cotton variety? The Union government thinks so.
Monsanto Lies, Again (and Again and Again)
Earlier this week, Monsanto was found guilty by France’s highest court of false advertising, for claims that Roundup, its toxic weed killer, is biodegradable and leaves “the soil clean.”
Monsanto’s Propaganda. The era of Robert Shapiro, the “GMO Guru”
How Monsanto promoted GMOs as the answer to world hunger and the saviour of the planet.
These “magic” GMOs are not on the market today
Propaganda to promote easier acceptance of GMOs?
Drought resistant GM crops ready ’in four years’
GM oilseed rape and maize that tolerate water shortages are in field tests - opponents remain sceptical
Manipulation of medias: Monsanto’s fake parade of poor famers at Johannesburg.
How big biotech lobbyists and Monsanto setted up a fake march of "poor farmers" at the Summit of Johannesburg, using the slogan "I don’t need white NGOs to speak for me".
A journalist has investigated behind the event to discover a international network of lobbyists leading straight to Monsanto.
The New York Times: Backing up Monsanto’s propaganda!
The NY Times is reporting word by word Monsanto’s propaganda about "the new seeds that would double the yields of corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030 and would require 30 percent less water, land and energy to grow."
Argentina: THREATS TO SCIENTIST WHO SHOWED ROUNDUP DANGERS
Reports from Argentina say there have been attempts to intimidate the lead researcher of a study showing that Roundup - the glyphosate herbicide developed by Monsanto - can cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses.
Monsanto and Its Philanthropy
Over a period of several years Monsanto, a multi-billion dollar transnational corporation (TNC), has worked very hard to build its image as a champion of the poor. To legitimize this image it is engaged in a high profile effort through giving grants to some established NGOs such as the World Vision.
