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Published to stellar praise worldwide, The World According to Monsanto charts award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin's three-year journey across four continents to uncover the disturbing practices of multinational agribusiness corporation Monsanto.

The book exposes the shocking story of how the new “green” face of the world's leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) is no less malign than its PCB―and Agent Orange―soaked past. Monsanto currently controls the majority of the yield of the world's genetically modified corn and soy―ingredients found in more than 95 percent of American households―and its alarming legal and political tactics to maintain this monopoly are the subject of worldwide concern, with baleful consequences for the world's small-scale farmers.

Selected as a finalist for the New York Public Library's 2011 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, The World According to Monsanto is positioned to increase awareness of a serious threat to our food supply.

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1595587098
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978-1595587091
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The New Press
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16 Feb. 2012
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English
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15.49 x 2.54 x 23.11 cm
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“No one who cares for their freedom and health can afford to ignore this very important book.”
―Vandana Shiva, author of Earth Democracy and Stolen Harvest

“A truly eye-opening view of how American business-as-usual really works.”
―Daily Kos

"Robin's outrage is well supported by wide-ranging scientific evidence . . . even lay readers are prodded to wise up and increase their awareness of what has become a serious threat."
―Kirkus Reviews

"Sends chills down the spine. . . . After reading this, we can no longer afford to turn a blind eye."
―Le Point

"Passionate and truly rich reporting."
―Libération

"[An] incredibly documented work."
―L'Express

About the Author

Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert-Londres Prize, awarded to investigate journalists in France. She is the director and produce of over thirty documentaries and investigative reports filmed in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. She lives outside Paris.

George Holoch has translated more than twenty books, including Notes on the Occupation by Eric Hazan and Offshore by Alain Deneault (both from The New Press). He lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The New Press (16 Feb. 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1595587098
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595587091
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.49 x 2.54 x 23.11 cm

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Rix Pix

Essential reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2013

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This is a difficult but fascinating book if you are at all interested in the food supply and the future of the human race! Difficult because it is hard to accept that an organisation such as Monsanto could stoop to the depths of sheer immorality that they evidently have. Following deliberate policies, they have ruined the lives of countless small farmers in India and South America, tied others into a cycle of increasing expenses and diminishing returns and wrecked the careers of distinguished scientists who have had the bravery to oppose them.

Meticulously researched over a number of years, the book helps you to understand how GMO's are developed (if you think it is merely an extension of established cross-breeding methods - read this book) and how companies like Monsanto have circumvented regulation by inventing the fine sounding but totally unscientific doctrine of "substantial equivalence" for their products. How senior staff have moved from Monsanto to the FDA - and other regulatory bodies - and vice versa, in a revolving door that benefits only the company, never the consumer. From Agent Orange during the Vietnam war to Bt cotton today it is a sobering history and one with potentially dire consequences for all of us.

Marie-Monique Robin has done a fantastic job with his book and I encourage everybody to read it. It is a real life morality story for our time.

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Critical friend

You have the book now someone needs the courage to make the film or documentary.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2014

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An excellent well researched expose of the devastating impact of a multinational agrochemicals company on our Planet and the greedy exploitation of communities and their consequences across the globe. A courageous effort in more ways than one.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2014

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Everyone should read this. Pretty scary

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Richard Robbins

Gripping and worrying

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2012

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Really an eye-opener and verging on the unbelievable. Not heavy going, as I thought it might be, and quite gripping.

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Jodi-Hummingbird

Chilling, disturbing and a great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 January 2012

In a nutshell, Monsanto has immense power and is accountable to no-one. They have exposed us all to PCBs, herbicides, dioxins and bovine growth hormones while being fully aware of the harmfulness of these substances. It's profit at any price.

As one quote in the book says, Monsanto is, 'A calmly arrogant company heedlessly profiting from the suffering of victims and the destruction of ecosystems.'

Monsanto knew that PCBs were harmful way back in 1937. They have falsified studies and concealed the evidence which didn't suit their bottom line, and the sold-out FDA and EPA lend them an aura of respectability that most people accept at face value, and so their destruction of our environment and our health continues unabated.

We can't say we didn't know with the information in this book so clearly presented and we must try to stop (somehow) Monsanto getting control of our seeds and so our entire food supply as is their current completely terrifying aim. This just can't be allowed to happen.

For information on how to undo some of the damage caused by pesticides, PCBs, dioxins and other toxic compounds (which underlie so many diseases) I also recommend the excellent book Detoxify or Die by Dr Sherry Rogers. Equally important is avoiding contaminated and GMO foods (especially growth hormone containing milk) as much as possible.

This book is very well done and is so needed. I hope this book is as widely read as it deserves to be. Finally some real investigative journalism - such a rare thing these days. Thank goodness for books, and libraries!

Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.

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E. Loots

Monsanto: still the same company it's always been

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 June 2010

Superbly written and researched book.

Even though I've been following Monsanto since quite some time, and hence was aware of their manifest wrong doing in the past (PCB, Agent Orange, Roundup, rBST/rBGH, ...), I was still amazed to read what they've been up to until very recently.

For me, the biggest I learned was that the new face to the outside world Monsanto has put on is just a mask and the truth is that it's just business as usual: sell whatever they can irrespective of the human cost AND EVEN if they know that what they sell is extremely harmful to people and living things in general.

An absolute must read for everyone in the world, not just US-citizens. Why? Just read chapter 16 in the book about the WTO, GATT, TRIPS (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and more specifically article 27 paragraph 3(b) relating to "patentable subject matter".

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Helen Davies

The world according to Monsanto. Book Review

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2011

This is an excellent book, I cant recommend it highly enough. It shows with evidence the methods Monsanto has used and still uses to develop and promote its toxic products throughout the world.This is a must read for everybody, especially given the recent efforts of Monsanto to impose GMs in Europe. Such an event would be catastrophic as the contamination from GMs would affect many conventional crops and wild plants and we will (again thanks to Monsanto) have to face a global contamination and genetic pollution whether we like/choose it or not. Definitely read this book.

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Alicia

If you don't already hate Monsanto, you will after reading this book!

Reviewed in Canada on 9 May 2024

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Monsanto is a plague on this earth. While this book only goes till around 2006 in terms of their history, the fact is that they were purchased by Bayer in 2018 and Bayer has lost around 60% of its market value since then due to settlements from lawsuits for RoundUp. If there's a better example of a company with excessive corporate greed and a complete and total lack of morals, I've never heard of it. (Maybe Enron?)

As a note, this book is the written version of the documentary of the same name, produced by the author of the book. Unlike the documentary, however, the books dives a little deeper into specific events and provides more info and specifics about those events. What it shows is how much work and research goes into a documentary - as there's no way all of this info could have been covered in a film.

It's well worth the read if you're interested in how the genetic modification of our food came to be and why it's so dangerous, or if you've ever used RoundUp around your own home. It's also a great book for better understanding that not all academic, peer-review research is legit and why conflicts of interest are a real problem.

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the must read

Reviewed in Japan on 20 April 2017

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I bought this book because I watched a documentary film Monsanto, which was really shocking. The book (as well as the film) is based on detailed research and survey by the author and provide evidence of how a profit driven giant company can skew scientific community, experimental results and influence national policy, at a grave cost to its people's health. It also depicts how Monsanto's strategy pushes decent farmers to the edge. Since GMO seeds can spread themselves, it is really scary how the world crops are going to be in the future, and it will be all of us who would have to pay the price of ill health, including those ones at Monsanto. I usually try to avoid any US made food stuff, although not all ingredients are made visible. The US is always pushing for less labeling and less restriction - don't they care about their own health? A big question...

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Reviewed in the United States on 7 November 2013

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I got this book at the same time I ordered The World According To Monsanto DVD (which I have since watched,even though at the time I reviewed the DVD I had not yet watched it). I got this book as a fast reference if I ever wanted to check or recheck something I wanted to know. (I imagine it might mirror the DVD,[I barely looked through it since I got it,even though I've had it for a few months]) as the author is,I believe,the lady with the auburn hair and French accent who narrates the opening segments of each documentary-style sequence of the DVD. It's a good way to present the info. In the video,she has a laptop with the French Google and the focus of her content is shown on her laptop screen as the search topic. And after the subject is introduced,it goes to live footage of people directly connected to the subject-matter she chose to explain. One sequence goes directly to Alabama where Monsanto polluted or poisoned the ground and groundwater,exposing residents to the chemicals, and you see the people affected and very sick or expecting to be sick,talking about their health problems and what Monsanto did to cause their exposure and also what Monsanto did to take responsibility for the health problems and deaths their chemicals caused. You also get an idea of how the politicians and the courts sided with Monsanto. You see the industrial sized "silos" that hold chemicals like Xylene labeled in that sequence. But it is one sequence of many topics and their related material).

Like I said,I assume this book mirrors the DVD to a greater or lesser extent. A book is faster to reference than sitting through a whole DVD if you want to look up a certain topic or refresh your memory about it, or get more detailed information on something.

(I saw one of the most horrible things I've ever seen on the DVD. Cows being milked by a machine and the milk going into a large,clear glass or plastic sealed ball. It made me cry. Because of all that it implies and the cold-hearted, inhuman brutality man puts those poor cows through just to supply a completely unneeded and unnecessary product for people. And also produce a very unhealthy product.)

One of the most unhealthy forms of cholesterol are oxysterols.(A Google-search using the 4 words oxysterols and cholesterol plaque brings up enough information to move on to other topics to search for information on oxysterols) Oxysterols are in food products containing dried milk and eggs. Even some regular milk has oxysterols in it,I assume because dried milk or dried whey has been added to the liquid milk.

Milk is over-produced at a high cost to the environment because of the crops grown to feed the dairy cows and all of the water and the energy resources and fossil fuels and agricultural resources that goes into feeding the dairy cows;and also their confinement-prisons where they produce tons of fecal matter and rivers of urine. These prisons add animal-waste-pollution and bacteria to the groundwater and the environment no differently than the wastes produced in CAFOs[Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations]where all animals go, to incessantly feed on unnatural amounts of food to add pounds and bulk to "fatten them up" before weighing,which is done at the slaughterhouse door (see Every Twelve Seconds by Timothy Pachirat. His book describes a slaughterhouse he worked at,undercover where one cow or calf was started on the slaughter-production-line,every twelve seconds. I think it was 2500 or 3000 animals were killed there every day. And it wasn't a 24 hour kill factory. It closed and was "cleaned" after the workday was over. I doubt there are slaughterhouses that run 24 hours a day. I only pointed out that it wasn't because people might think the high slaughter number was accomplished because it slaughtered 24 hours a day). The cows and calves are sold on a price-per-pound basis. It is completely inhuman and vile.

Milk is over-produced at a high cost to the environment because of the crops grown to feed the dairy cows and all of the water and energy resources that goes into feeding the dairy cows and also their confinement-prisons where they produce tons of fecal matter and rivers of urine. These prisons add animal-waste-pollution and bacteria to the groundwater and the environment no differently than the wastes produced in CAFOs. Not to mention the oceans of animal suffering and misery the cows are forced to live in and never escape from until they are transported to a slaughter house at approximately 1/5 or 1/6 of a cows natural life span. A cow can live to 25 to 32 years old. Because of the rBGH used to make cows produce milk in unnaturally large amounts,the "normal" lifespan of a dairy cow,was decreased from 7 years to 5 years.

The rBGH,another Monsanto product,makes the cows"burn out"or have early decreased milk production about 2 years before cows not injected with rBGH do. But it doesn't matter much. It doesn't mean milk production is any less cruel or less evil because rBGH isn't used. Dairy cows that are low-milk-producers go directly to a slaughterhouse because they are useless as milk producers. They will slaughter a very young dairy cow once they find her milk production is not high. They only want the highest producers on the dairy farms(it is the same for "dairy goats" also. The cruelty of the insane monster, man has no limits and never ends). And the male babies of dairy cows go into veal crates. Horrible and unnatural confinement for these little babies. And they are slaughtered at a young age for veal.

Milk is a more cruel product than meat because it so disrupts everything natural and normal for cow herds and cow mothers.

A cat I rescued made me think to write this review. Her reaction to hearing me when I talk to my cats in "meow" language(and I can sound like a cat. My high pitched meows sound like a kitten),but her reaction is one more reminder of how strong the mothering instinct is in mother creatures. I put together,or figured it out, that this cat was used for breeding. I don't know if she is a purebred cat but because of certain facts about her and her reactions,and the fact that she is declawed,I eventually came to the conclusion she was probably used to breed(no claws makes it easier for a male cat to mate with her,since her four means of self defense,claws on all 4 paws,have been ripped from her. I assume this. I don't know if,typically, cats are declawed for breeding purposes but,evil as man can be,in a typically sick way,it does "make sense".). I found her alone in a deserted wooded place. Until I found she had no claws I planned to try to find her owner. But a declawed cat is a dead cat alone outside,with no way to defend themselves or escape by climbing a tree if a territorial animal,or a predatory animal finds them. So when I found out she had no claws I decided to not return her to someone who didn't care she could be killed by being out by the woods with no claws. I had no idea she was a female or was probably used for breeding till a long time after I found her. She has long hair and checking to see what was under her tail was no pressing need I felt. But what made me think of the dairy cows and how they,and their babies,suffer and mourn when they are separated after the baby cow is born,was that last night it hit me how,when I meow,this cat comes running to me. I realized she misses her babies that she gives birth to but they must have always been taken away from her. It's happened before that she has run to me when I meowed,talking to one of my cats(I don't do it often or all the time) but I never really thought about it;I realized why she does that last night.

I also realized,a long time ago,that she doesn't miss her former home,either. Cats will stare out the window when they find themselves in another house. They are wondering, I think,where their old home is and if they can ever go back. Looking for something familiar but they never see it. Or maybe also watching for a person to come home,but they never do;she never has sat staring out the window. Some cats who find themselves away from home spend most of their time looking out the window. I don't know if my theory on why I think they do that has been proven or documented,but it does make sense. When an animal misses someone they want to return to,it shows. It is also very human behavior. When my room mate moved,his cat who was also mine,always ran like a dog hearing his best friend come home,when she thought she heard her first friend in the room where he,and she,always slept. My room mate kept her with him before he moved in with me. She was used to being with him as the main person she bonded with but she was also used to me. She would always hide when anyone else came over to his house. She wouldn't hide if I was there but would disappear completely when other people were there. She was also rescued because she was abandoned when the people who lived where he moved into,left her behind;alone with no one but a bigger kitty who might have been her mom or another cat they abandoned. The bigger one ended up flat on the side of the road,killed by a car and the baby that my friend took in spent most of her time alone in the woods. Till she showed up on his windowsill night and I said "you WILL take care of her,won't you". I brought her back after I tried keeping her at my house and she pitched a fit when she met my cat.

I write these things because animals need a voice. Not enough people listen to them when they talk or communicate. Not enough people know,or care, that animals depend on people to care for them...but what man does is too evident. And most of it is so beyond wrong,that it is evil. And criminal. And also in these wrongs,a lot that hurts people and destroys their health comes with it. And these things are also never mentioned or pointed out in mainstream news or the mainstream media. Which is another reason I point out this information.

Riv

Best book ever!

Reviewed in Germany on 17 January 2014

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This book help me a lot to open my eyes to a lot of horrible situations that are happening in the world and threatening our own existence and the future of Earth. I HIGHLY recommended it, but I warn you, you will get pretty upset with the things that Marie-Monique Robin has to tell you.