So let me get this straight. A nation cannot simply ban Monsanto's product, even after said nation decides that it's bad for the environment?
mm, is that really so surprising? Corporations have been setting the global agenda for decades now; we have international copyright laws that are stringently enforced and yet no international labor rights laws or environmental laws or etc. Only a handful of nations have ever had the power to stand up to them (the same handful that are in collusion with those corporations).
It's not often that a country as powerful as Germany gets thwarted, though.
Also, I HAVE SO MUCH HATE FOR MONSANTO. SO MUCH. Companies such as that have wrecked so much destruction in India, and the increasing rate of Indian farmer suicides over this past decade is awful.
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Date: 2009-04-17 01:16 am (UTC)mm, is that really so surprising? Corporations have been setting the global agenda for decades now; we have international copyright laws that are stringently enforced and yet no international labor rights laws or environmental laws or etc. Only a handful of nations have ever had the power to stand up to them (the same handful that are in collusion with those corporations).
It's not often that a country as powerful as Germany gets thwarted, though.
Also, I HAVE SO MUCH HATE FOR MONSANTO. SO MUCH. Companies such as that have wrecked so much destruction in India, and the increasing rate of Indian farmer suicides over this past decade is awful.