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In light of Monsanto's symbolic trial held in 2016, Marie-Monique Robin exposes the magnitude of the Roundup health scandal, best -selling herbicide in the world. An overwhelming indictment, words of victims and experts in support.
This is the story of civic anger, Until then almost inaudible, and a fight against an ecocide, or crime against the environment, committed with impunity by the firm champion of GMOS.
In October 2016, in The Hague, victims and experts testify - a first - before the Monsanto International Tribunal, Over the course of an edifying symbolic trial against the Roundup, The best -selling herbicide in the world, and its very toxic active molecule, glyphosate. That year, some 800 000 tons Why “killing” (His nickname in Spanish) or his generics were poured on the planet.
If the multinational has refused to appear, The victims told the consequences of his spreading at the helm : Children's malformations, cancers, respiratory or renal diseases and environmental destruction. Scientists, This indictment overwhelming reveals the extent of this health scandal, that upsetting upsetting reports on the current tragedy, From France to Argentina via the United States and Sri Lanka-the first country to prohibit glyphosate. “This sprayer brought us death, While we just wanted to make a living“, coward, amer, Sri Lankan Rice farmer contaminated.
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Almost ten years after his investigation “The world according to Monsanto“, Marie-Monique Robin demonstrates, Supporting evidence beam, Roundup's extreme harmfulness, At a time when the European Union must decide whether or not to prolong the authorization of glyphosate on the market. March in March 2015 “probable carcinogen” speak International Center for Cancer Research (IARC), and recognized as such by secret scientific studies commanded by Monsanto, l’herbicide, omnipresent in water, l’air, Earth and food, is also an endocrine disruptor, an antibiotic and a metal chelator - it sequests minerals.
Faced with the guilty silence of health agencies and governmental inertia, the film, through this process, also shows engagement with the work of global civil society to recognize ecocide. The challenge ? The criminal prosecution of multinational whose activities threaten the safety of the planet and human health.