The French documentary, called “The world according to Monsanto” directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the “revolving door”. One example is Michael Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to Monsanto, becoming the company’s vice president for public policy.

Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market.

Monsanto’s long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence.

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5 Responses to “The World According to Monsanto”

  1. blackflag Says:
    May 10th, 2009 at 04:06

    assholes

  2. VINEGARBUBBLE Says:
    August 20th, 2009 at 09:36

    Hows these people sleep is beyond me!

  3. Concern citizen of the world Says:
    January 11th, 2010 at 11:06

    These people needs to be locked away with a special prison and than feed them with their own modified GE food for ever…..

  4. nick Says:
    February 16th, 2010 at 18:44

    This is what happens with capitalism-profits over anything else.

  5. atomicdog2020 Says:
    April 4th, 2010 at 03:54

    Wow, these people will eventually control all of our food.

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