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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger: Empowering a Life-Destroying Cartel
Examining hazards a controversial take-over and hazards of agrochemical agriculture
Uploaded: 18 May, 2018
Recording Date: 18 May, 2018
Recording Location: CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Language: English
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Program Title: The Bayer-Monsanto Merger: Empowering a Life-Destroying Cartel
Description: This edition of the Global Research News Hour explores issues around the recent approval of a merger between German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer and the American Agro-chemical giant Monsanto. Author and Public Banking Institute Chair Ellen Brown discusses the economic and political clout of the new entity. writer Nick Meyer speaks about the May 19th March Against Monsanto, Dr. Stephen Frantz challenges descriptions of the GMO/Agro-chemical industry as safe, sustainable and benevolent, and Vandana Shiva shares her big picture views of agro-chemical agriculture as an artifact of a colonial, patriarchal system, and ways to move beyond it.
Host(s): Michael Welch
Featured Speakers/Guests: Vandana Shiva, Ellen Brown, Nick Meyer, Stephen Frantz
Credits: Interviews by Michael Welch
Comments: Includes short excerpts of Vanada SHiva's speech at the University of Winnipeg's May 2017 Axworthy Distinguished Lecture Series on Social Justice and the Public Good.
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News
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Weekly Program
Health > Food and Nutrition Environment > Climate Change Politics > Activism Regional > United States Regional > Europe Science and Technology > Earth Sciences Environment > Biodiversity Environment > Agriculture |
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