One of WikiLeaks' greatest achievements has been to expose the exorbitant amount of influence that multinational corporations have over Washington's diplomacy.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. December 28, 2010.
Then-U.S. ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France's decision to ban cultivation of GM corn produced by Monsanto and threatened recourse.
A recent poll showed that most people thought the top three food stories of the year were all about food safety -- but there are many more that made our list.
One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups.
Big goings-on in the food world as of late: Gulf crabs are oiled up; Ohio mulls a new anti-cruelty farming initiative; farm workers reach out; and Monsanto takes yet another hit.
Monsanto's seed donations were an unwelcomed gift to a country with vocal opposition to GMO seeds for fear they would ruin what little agriculture the country has left.
Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.
Joya Parsons, Every Kitchen Table. October 7, 2009.
Corporations have been given the power to own seeds. And they are eliminating competing varieties and crowning their own patented seeds as the only choice in the marketplace.
