Monsanto Reprimanded for Trying to Take Over the World's Food Supply

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United Nations Reprimands Monsanto for Trying to Take Over the World's Food

Supply

 

The President of the United Nations General Assembly condemned Monsanto for

profiteering in his opening remarks last week. President H. E. M. Miguel

d'Escoto Brockmann noted that the global food crisis is worse than ever. In his

remarks at the UN in New York City, he cited World Bank figures, which now

blame 75% of the food crisis on the current mass transfer of food crop

production towards biofuels. According to Brockmann, the world's food supply

" has been

subordinated to the economic aims of a handful of multinational corporations

that monopolize all aspects of food production, from seeds to major

distribution chains, and they have been the prime beneficiaries of the world

crisis.

A look at the figures for 2007, when the world food crisis began, shows that

corporations such as Monsanto and Cargill, which control the cereals market,

saw their profits increase by 45 and 60 per cent, respectively. "