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Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet. April 11, 2012.

Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back.

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society. February 23, 2012.

The monumental case paves the way for legal action against Monsanto's Roundup and other harmful herbicides and pesticides made by other manufacturers.

Monsanto's 5 Most Dubious Contributions to the Planet

Oliver Lee, Take Part. August 12, 2011.

There's a whole lot more than just GMO seeds. Let's take a quick look at some of the biotech giant's most dubious contributions to society over the past century.

How Seed Banks, Vaults and Exchanges Are Saving Our Food From Disaster

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. May 27, 2011.

Seeds provide the kind of security to agriculture-oriented people that gold provides to the money-minded.

El Salvadoran Government & Social Movements Say No to Monsanto

Carlos Martinez, AlterNet. May 26, 2011.

El Salvador's breadbasket has an alternative vision to the one that US biotech firms like Monsanto would like to impose: "food sovereignty."

Corporations Move in on Your Garden

Margot Ford McMillen, Progressive Populist. May 7, 2010.

Is the home gardening trend just a growth industry for the corporates?

Companies Like Monsanto and Dupont Practically Own the Meal on Your Plate

Companies Like Monsanto and Dupont Practically Own the Meal on Your Plate

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.

Vandana Shiva: Why We Face Both Food and Water Crises

Maria Armoudian, Ankine Aghassian, AlterNet. May 15, 2008.

The world-renowned activist reminds people that corporation-friendly economic schemes got us into this mess in the first place.

Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We Escape the 'Frankenstate'?

Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press. May 2, 2008.

Taking a technological approach to agriculture has put the future of the world's food supply in jeopardy.

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