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#Monsanto Talks Food Security, But Critics Want #Vietnam War Restitution First
▻http://www.voanews.com/content/monsanto-talks-food-security-but-critics-want-vietnam-war-restitution-first/2673624.html

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The agriculture and chemical giant co-sponsored a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City last month to get young people interested in sustainable farming. But critics are suspicious of Monsanto’s motives, especially in Vietnam, because the company produced #Agent_Orange, a defoliant used in the Vietnam War and believed to be the cause of health problems for millions.

#chutzpah

Toxic pollution: chemical giants free from all liability?
▻http://multinationales.org/Toxic-pollution-chemical-giants

‘Manufacturers must answer for the poisoning caused by PCBs!’ demands the Coalition against #Bayer Dangers, a German organisation that has fought against the abuse of the German chemical multinational corporation for 35 years. This article was originally published in French. Translation: Jocelyn Timperley. PCBs – polychlorinated biphenyls – are industrial products used from the 1930s up to the 1980s in transformers, seals, paints and flooring. They are highly chlorinated organic compounds, and (...)

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#corporate_legal_responsibility
“▻http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html”
“►http://www.bayer.com/en/asm_2014_countermotions_en.pdfx”

PUBPAT > Monsanto Seed Patents
►http://www.pubpat.org/monsanto-seed-patents.htm

Pour ne pas se faire accuser par Monsanto d’avoir piraté ses semences (en cas de contamination !), les fermiers bio attaquent pré-emptivement

In March 2011, PUBPAT filed suit on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations against Monsanto Company to challenge the chemical giant’s patents on genetically modified seed. The organic plaintiffs were forced to sue preemptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should they ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seed, something Monsanto has done to others in the past.

#brevets #ogm #graines #agriculture