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1.GM farming in Latin America: Articles/Reports
2.GM farming in Latin America: Videos
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1.GM farming in Latin America: Articles/Reports
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/news/index.php

In South America, GM soy production for EU livestock has caused the destruction of 21 million hectares of forest in Brazil, 14m in Argentina, and 2m in Paraguay. It has also caused violent land grabs, displaced indigenous peoples, dramaticaly increased the use of Monsanto's toxic Roundup weedkiller, caused major health problems, and created vast unsustainable GM monocultures - all to produce cheap animal feed for farmers in Ireland and other European countries. For more info see:

*The soy republic of Argentina
Marie Trigona
Toward Freedom, 3 September 2009:
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1664/1/

*Bio-hegemony: the political economy of agricultural biotechnology in Argentina
By P. Newell and J. Martin
Cambridge University, 2009:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=4454884&jid=&vol umeId=&issueId=01&aid=4454876&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession=

*Glyphosate: public health vs profit in Argentina
By Negin P. Martin, Ph. D.
Environmental Health News, 4 June 2009:
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/blog/glyphosate-public-health-vs-prof it-in-argentina

*Health-Argentina: Scientists Reveal Effects of Glyphosate
By Marcela Valente.
Inter Press Service (IPS), 15 April 2009:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46516

*The Great European Land Grab: The costs of Europe's appetite for animal feeds and agrofuels
Media briefing by Friends of the Earth Europe, 28 November 2008. Download (56kb):
http://www.foeeurope.org/agrofuels/FFE/Media%20Briefing%20final.pdf

*Soy consumption for feed and fuel in the European Union
A research paper prepared by Profundo Economic Research for Millieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands), 28 October 2008. Download (716kb):
http://www.foeeurope.org/agrofuels/FFE/Profundo%20report%20final.pdf

*The social and economic impacts of GMOs
Greenpeace briefing paper, April 2008:
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/eu-unit/press-centre/policy-papers-briefin gs/social-and-economic-impacts-of-GMOs.pdf
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2.GM farming in Latin America: Videos
http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-video

*Killing fields: the true cost of Europe's cheap meat
http://viacampesina.org/main_en/
The full price of cheap meat is being paid across Latin America as vast, mostly genetically modified, soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence.

Unreported World: Paraguay - Painful Harvest
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3778190655853164866#

Protests around the Round Table on Responsible Soy
In Spanish with English subtitles
http://www.grain.org/videos/?id=174

GRAIN interviews Silvia Ribeiro (ETC Group, Mexico), November 2008
Silvia discuses the impact of GM contamination of maize in Mexico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H9WZGKQeYg