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18.April,2012
By Joe Samuel
Food Freedom News
In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers. Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.”
Bill Gates, heavily invested in Monsanto’s GMOs as well as in vaccines, hired the most beloved of Indian actors, Amitabh Bachchan, to promote the oral polio vaccine.
Monsanto used Bollywood actors and succeeded in selling India’s farmers Bt cotton seeds. Profits for Monsanto rose. When yields were less than promised, farmers incurred massive debt, leading many to suicide, in what is considered “the worst-ever recorded wave of suicides of this kind in human history.” To date, the number of suicides has surpassed 250,000.
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Oh my goodness. Monsanto and Bill Gates, needs to make monetary restitutions to India. This is just plain greed. RIP, via God’s Mercy, and May God hug their families. So sad, folks would do this to other people w/o an apology.
Thanks for re-blogging this reblogged post. You are indeed a crusader…
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The story of Monsanto and India is tragic. It’s nothing less than a holocaust. I hope some day there will be some kind of financial recovery for people who lost everything.
Did Bill Gates hire the Monsanto actors? I am pretty disgusted he is involved with Monsanto. But I have a hard time seeing him actually hiring the actors for Monsanto himself.
No matter. Anyone who promotes this monster food is still messed up. I just expected better of Bill Gates, given his philanthropy toward education. I really want to respect him. But after the affiliation with Monsanto it’s pretty hard.
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