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<\/a>\nIn\n<\/a>\nIn\n\na review of the 2008 film, The World According to Monsanto,<\/a>,\nKimberley D. Mok remarks:\n\nThe film documents the beginnings of the company as a chemical start-up in the early 1900s, producing saccharin, caffeine and vanillin. As we watch Robin Google up unclassified documents and interview a bevy of officials, scientists and farmers, we see that today\u2019s Monsanto is a giant multinational wielding its considerable financial, political and marketing clout to influence government officials, ruthlessly sue farmers using patent laws \u2013 all the while surreptitiously lobbying to keep their potentially toxic products unlabelled or falsely advertised.\n\nMonsanto claims that their genetically modified seeds will solve the food crisis, especially in developing countries, where it will provide significant economic benefits, higher quality and better yield. Nevertheless, the film compellingly shows the unsettling possibilities of genetic contamination of conventional or local varieties of seeds by their genetically-engineered cousins, pointing to a horrific future where global plant biodiversity is nil and farmers are not able to grow anything but genetically contaminated food.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe future?\nAlready Monsanto seeds grow 93% of soybeans and 80% of corn in the U.S.<\/a>\nand people claim “we couldn’t do agriculture in Argentina”<\/a> without RoundUp.\nThe Biotechnology Industry Organization even claims that\n\nthe popularity of herbicide-resistant crops showed their value outweighs any associated detriments.<\/a>\n
\nAny associated detrimeents, such as \nbirth defects or sickness in animals and humans.<\/a>\n
\nNevermind that organic farming yields are often better than with agrochemicals.<\/a>\n