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Monsanto : les produits à boycotter

Impliquée dans de nombreux scandales sanitaires et alimentaires, la firme internationale est régulièrement montrée du doigt. Mais face à ses actions destructrices et son lobbying acharné, la résistance s’organise! Les produits Monsanto au Maroc. C’est une découverte qui fait peur. Le 13 juin dernier, Les Amis de la Terre France ont fait faire des analyses qui ont décelé que le Round up, l’herbicide phare de la firme Monsanto, le plus vendu au Monde, est présent dans le corps humain. Et ce n’est pas une nouvelle, puisque plusieurs études précédentes ont démontré l’incidence de ce produit sur le développement de graves problèmes de santé dont le cancer, la maladie de Parkinson ou des cas d'infertilité.

Le Round up existe au Maroc et il est commercialisé via deux sociétés de distribution: Alfachimie et Agrimatco. Il existe 20 produits Round up au Maroc qui ont été homologués par l’Office National de la Sécurité Sanitaire des produits Alimentaires, avec leurs variétés Round up Energy et Round up Turbo, qui sont à des degrés divers de toxicité. Les agriculteurs marocains les utilisent comme désherbant pour protéger trois types de cultures: les pommiers, la vigne et les agrumes. Les agents Monsanto travaillent ensemble. Glyphosate : des raisons de s’inquiéter ! Le monde selon Monsanto. CORPORATE GHOSTS. THE FAKE PERSUADERS. Monsanto's World Wide Web of Deceit Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet George Monbiot, Tuesday May 14, 2002, The Guardian Persuasion works best when it's invisible.

THE FAKE PERSUADERS

The most effective marketing worms its way into our consciousness, leaving intact the perception that we have reached our opinions and made our choices independently. As old as humankind itself, over the past few years this approach has been refined, with the help of the internet, into a technique called "viral marketing". While, in the past, companies have created fake citizens' groups to campaign in favour of trashing forests or polluting rivers, now they create fake citizens.

Monsanto knows better than any other corporation the costs of visibility. On November 29 last year, two researchers at the University of California, Berkeley published a paper in Nature magazine, which claimed that native maize in Mexico had been contaminated, across vast distances, by GM pollen. GMWatch Home. Protester receives death threat over anti-Monsanto protest in Argentina. Winner of the Goldman Prize, Sofía Gatica, is said to have received a death threat from a suspected Monsanto mercenary.

Protester receives death threat over anti-Monsanto protest in Argentina

Protesters in Argentina continue to block construction of what is planned to be the biggest Monsanto plant in Latin America. They have occupied the construction site in Malvinas, Argentina for about two months now and Monsanto stands accused of resorting to intimidation tactics to try and remove them. Sign the petition to support the brave protesters at Monsanto Malvinas: See the protesters' Facebook page here: For more on Sofía Gatica and the the Mothers of Ituzaingó opposing Monsanto: November 20, 2013 - Argentina, Revolution News It happened at 6am today in Alta Gracia when Sofia Gatica got on the bus to head to work in Córdoba. It is not the first time that Sofia, one of the founders of Madres de Barrio Ituzaingó Anexo, has received death threats. “There are several ways of dying. Sofia gave a description of the man who made the death threat to Ecos Córdoba. Spread of GM plants out of control in many countries. A global overview shows GM maize, rice, cotton, oilseed rape, bentgrass, and poplar trees are spreading uncontrollably.

Spread of GM plants out of control in many countries

Download full report at: Contamination in biodiversity will burden following generations. Monsanto's Dirty Tricks Campaign Against Fired Berkeley Professor Ignacio Chapela. Interview with GM Watch editor, Jonathan Matthews. Monsanto's dirty tricks campaign -Interview with GM Watch editor, Jonathan Matthews This wide ranging interview with GM Watch editor, Jonathan Matthews, takes in amongst other things: the history of GM Watch, the industry's attacks on GM-critical scientists, Monsanto's Internet dirty tricks campaign, the herd mentality that drives the uptake of GM crops, and the industry's current assault on the South.

Interview with GM Watch editor, Jonathan Matthews

Marina Littek of Italy's Green Planet interviews Jonathan Matthews of GM Watch. Q: When I first came across GM Watch, you seemed to have all the juiciest stories on GM and all the breaking news, and that's been really useful for what I do. But how did it all begin? Wasn’t it a local campaign at the start? We started out as Norfolk Genetic Information Network or NGIN (pronounced "engine") in the Spring of 98. Q: Of course, both sides say this - "if only the public had more information". Yes, but the people who support this technology mean “if only they had more of our information”.