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05.10.2011 | permalink
Battle escalates against genetically modified crops in the USA
Home to a fast-growing network of farmers’ markets, cooperatives and organic farms, but also the breeding ground for mammoth for-profit corporations that now hold patents to over 50 percent of the world’s seeds, the United States is weathering a battle between Big Agro and a ripening movement for food justice and security.
Conflicting ideologies about agriculture have become ground zero for this war over the production, distribution and consumption of the world’s food.
- International Press Service, Italy (IPS): U.S.: Battle escalates against genetically modified crops
- CBS, USA: Activists plan march against genetically-modified food
- National Public Radio, USA (NPR): Americans are wary of genetically engineered foods
- Business Week, USA: Monsanto spent $1.7 million lobbying gov’t in 2Q