Filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin on the troubling past of one of the world's biggest agricultural companies. Monsanto, producer of PCBs and Agent Orange, genetically modified seeds and related herbicides.
MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN, FILMMAKER: I've been working as a journalist for 25 years, and I have a lot of pharmacy friends. I mean, I have a big interest for agriculture. I made a lot of documentaries all over the world about this issue and about human rights. I mean, Monsanto is a question of agriculture right now and human rights.
DR. VANDANA SHIVA, PHYSICIST AND ECOLOGIST: There's nothing they're leaving untouched—the mustard, the okra, the brinjal, the rice. Once they have established the norm that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food. They know it. That's more powerful than bombs. It's more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world.
ROBIN: Monsanto is now the biggest —it's the first seed company in the world. They bought up, in the last ten years, about 50 seed companies, and they are the first leader in GMOs. I decided to make this documentary because, you know, Monsanto is saying that GMOs are safe for consumers, safe for the environment. And I thought, my God, can we trust a company when it is saying that? http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1582
