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The World According to Monsanto is a 2008 film directed by Marie-Monique Robin.Originally released in French as Le monde selon Monsanto, the film is based on Robin's three-year-long investigation into the corporate practices around the world of the United States multinational corporation, Monsanto.
Marie-Monique Robin (French pronunciation: [maʁi mɔnik ʁɔbɛ̃]; born 15 June 1960, Poitou-Charentes) is a French TV journalist and documentary filmmaker.She generally issues books and documentary films together on the topics she investigates, in order to make more people aware of the issues she studies.
The March Against Monsanto was an international grassroots movement and protest against Monsanto, a producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide. [1] The movement was founded by Tami Canal in response to the failure of California Proposition 37 , a ballot initiative which would have required ...
Founder of Le Monde Hubert Beuve-Méry (5 January 1902 – 6 August 1989) was a French journalist and newspaper editor who was born in Paris and died in Fontainebleau . Before the Second World War , he was associated with the Vichy regime until December 1942, when he joined the Resistance .
The Monsanto Company (/ m ɒ n ˈ s æ n t oʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in the 1970s.
The stairs of the butte (the 'hill' or 'mound'), at the top of Saint-Vincent Street, at the hill of Montmartre in Paris.. The steps of the 'butte' (a small hill), seen from the top of the street of Saint-Vincent, and the 'wings of the mill' that are said to protect lovers in the song, are both references to the 'hill' of Montmartre in Paris.
The Monsanto product with which François was poisoned is known commercially as Lasso Paul François is a French agricultor and author, [ 1 ] who has been decorated with the Legion of Honour . [ 2 ] He is notable chiefly because he demonstrated to a court of law that he was poisoned by a Monsanto product.
In 1926–1932 a lavishly decorated 12-volume edition of J. C. Mardrus' translation, titled Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit, appeared.Soviet and Russian scholar Isaak Filshtinsky, however, considered Mardrus' translation inferior to others due to presence of chunks of text, which Mardrus conceived himself to satisfy the tastes of his time. [8]