Watch this: you'll never buy Round-Up or support GM

"The World according to Monsanto" was listed as film of the week by the Organic Consumers Association - Monsanto has forced PCBs, Agent Orange, biotech crops and rBGH on the world and has more control over global politics, laws and the future of food and water than most people realize. Watch this investigative video that analyzes the inner workings, history and scandalous secrets of one of the world's most powerful corporations.

Watch: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11386.cfm

Meanwhile in the news I read that a private security company organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on environmental organizations like Greenpeace, the Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and GE Food Alert, amongst a number of others, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. Those listed among the firm's clients include PR firms representing biotech companies and major corporations, including Monsanto.
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8995

And talking GM....Order 81 was imposed on Iraq by the Americans after the US/UK invasion in order to favour patented seeds and multinational ag corporations. A recent article asks whether Iraq can rebuild its agricultural economy in the wake of Order 81.
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8987

Lastly Ann Clark, associate professor of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, has written a telling response to a widely reported survey which suggested UK farmers wanted to grow GM crops. She writes, 'What I cannot fathom is how British academics can still be quoted as saying that GM crops allow farmers to grow "high-quality food profitably", in an 'environmentally sensitive way', and to attain "high yields while using less herbicide".' Clark points out that GM crops are engineered for herbicide tolerance and insect-killing, not for 'quality', and that 'objective evidence of profitability is equally sparse, particularly if one factors in the lemon effect of lost markets due to the global rejection of GM'. Regarding yield, Clark cites a recent USDA retrospective on GM in the US, which stated, 'Currently available GE crops do not increase the yield potential of a hybrid variety. In fact, yield may even decrease if the varieties used to carry the herbicide-tolerant or insect-resistant genes are not the highest yielding cultivars.'
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8972