ARGENTINA: Monsanto's GMO (genetically modified foods) the cause for high cancer rate in the country?

ARGENTINIANS CONSUMES VAST AMOUNTS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD PRODUCTS WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF THE FACT, NOT TO MENTION THE  SUBSEQUENT HEALTH RISKS 

Unlike in EUROPE, ARGENTINE food suppliers and supermarkets are not required to specify genetically modified food products on its packaging. Thus consumers have no way of knowing if the food products they buy are GMO products or not. It was the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) prize pupil, ARGENTINA'S President Carlos Menem, who signed the contracts with the agribusiness giants MONSANTO and CARGILL to go the “soya way” at the beginning of the 1990s. The contracts were entered into without the participation of Congress and without a public debate. Since then, ARGENTINA has become the second largest GM soya producer in the world, after the UNITED STATES.

LACK OF PUBLIC AWARENESS REGARDING THE DANGERS SURROUNDING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD PRODUCTS

A vast majority of food products on ARGENTINIANS supermarket shelves are in most likelihood linked to Monsanto and thus genetically modified food products without the consumer being aware of this fact. ARGENTINE public in general are not fully aware of the controversy surrounding genetically modified food products and subsequent health risks.( ARGENTINA has a soaring cancer statistic ) ARGENTINIANS, besides their high percentage of meat consumption, also consume large amount of pasta and bread, all of which contain, or could contain genetically modified, corn, wheat, soy etc.

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 ARGENTINE ACTIVISTS RALLY AGAINST US MONSANTO EXPANSION IN LATIN AMERICA

ARGENTINEANS have said no to what they call Monsanto´s “deathly” business in LATIN AMERICA.

In Buenos Aires, the action group “Millions against Monsanto” has led a protest at the House of Cordoba, a province located in the center of ARGENTINA where the US multinational company is developing its biggest regional factory.

According to activists, the construction of the facility has been approved by provincial authorities but no official report on environmental damages has yet been conducted.

Political complicity, leaders of the protest said, is fostering the expansion of Monsanto´s “chain of profit and death”: Monsanto sells seeds that are resistant to its own glyphosate-based Roundup, a key herbicide used in ARGENTINA´S “green gold” soybean industry.

In the meantime, thousands of farmers are exposed to serious health risks -cancer, birth defects, intestinal, heart and neuronal conditions- as a recent investigation by the University of Buenos Aires shows.

But ARGENTINA is only one link of Monsanto´s billionaire expansion in LATIN AMERICA.

In PARAGUAY, for instance, demonstrators denounced that the biotech company has managed to introduce its transgenic soy thanks to economic lobbies linked to the impeachment of President Fernando Lugo last year. They called it the “agribusiness coup”.

Monsanto has reported to have nearly tripled its profits in the first fiscal quarter of 2013 as its regional sales boom and governments allow the US-based firm to spread.

Meanwhile, on the margins of the anti-Monsanto demonstration, ARGENTINE left-wing opposition lawmakers held a political meeting to condemn the corporate power of agribusiness and the increasing control of food sovereignty by transnational companies.