Monsanto rakes in billions while Indian farmers commit suicide
There exists an enormous discrepancy between promises of relief from the colossal threat of starvation in the world on the one hand and the stark reality on the other hand. In India, in Africa, in Latin America and elsewhere, world leaders and companies such as the giant Monsanto hold out hollow promises of fabulous crops of genetically modified seeds while in India there are thousands and thousands of suicides among farmers who can no longer make a living on their land and there are millions of deaths from starvation in Africa. The sufferings of countless hungry and malnourished children in Africa, Asia and Latin America can not be calculated in cold figures.
Monsanto, a multinational company specializing in biotechnology, is a major producer of GM seeds and pesticides and it has for decades promised blue skies and end of hunger to starving people in the developing world. However, this multinational is just one of an ever-increasing number of biotech companies that have appeared all over the world.
Who will make hunger history?
With an estimated 24,000 people succumbing globally to hunger every day, more than 120 million people could perish by the year 2015 from this shameful scourge. In Gleneagles, however, the leaders of the world’s richest economies did not even provide lip-service to the hungry and malnourished.
– Devinder Sharma, 3 August 2005
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