12 January 2010 | News | Food Sovereignty
The World According to Forbes
Monsanto was the ‘company of the year 2009’ according to business magazine
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US Forbes magazine considered the controversial seed company Monsanto as the most successful corporation in 2009. It highlights progress in terms of bio-engineering, the contribution to the food of the growing world population and its ability to avoid suffering the impacts of the international financial crisis.
Meanwhile, the rest of the planet reaches the conclusion that the transnational corporation continues adding environmental crimes to its negative criminal record.
Several international agencies reported contents of an article of the annual balance to be published by Forbes next January 18th.
The piece mentions the “bad image” problems suffered by the US corporation and admits that the economic achievements do not go hand in hand with “public adulation”.
Monsanto has the profile of “successful corporation”, according to Forbes, because it has “earned billion dollars” with its GM seeds.
“But the economic achievements are not the same as public adulation.
Most of the time Monsanto has been working to feed Humanity better, it has been subject of criticism”, claims the magazine.
It adds many have portrayed the company as “the Satan of agriculture for daring modify corn and soy genes”.
It is true though, as Forbes says, that this is the widespread view about Monsanto worldwide.
It is worth noting, by way of example, that in December, as part of the UN COP 15 on Climate Change held in Copenhagen, environmental federation Friends of the Earth International, together with other organizations, gave Monsanto and Shell “The Angry Mermaid Award” for their lobby to avoid tackling climate change.
