Posted on 01/08/08
Googling for seeds of truth
The World According to Monsanto Directed by Marie-Monique Robin Classification: G**A few years ago I saw Bullshit, a fascinating Swedish documentary that follows Vandana Shiva, an Indian environmental activist and nuclear physicist, over a two-year period. Shiva helps teach traditional methods of seed production at her organic farm when she's not battling multinational corporations such as Coca-Cola and Monsanto, the agricultural biotech company that, among other things, tried to patent an ancient Indian strain of wheat. (The name of the doc refers to an "award" one of Shiva's critics gave her for "sustaining poverty.")
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