Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association explains why Monsanto won the Angry Mermaid Award for the worst corporate climate criminal. Monsanto contributes to climate change by producing the chemical-dependent genetically engineered crops that are part of the reason the industrial food system spews 44-57% of greenhouse gas emissions. (Time: 5:35)
At the same time, Monsanto's trying to profit from climate change by offering false solutions like its so-called "responsible soy." Mosanto's soy drives deforestation and is grown as feed for greenhouse-gas-belching factory farms.