Unreported World ~Paraguay's Painful Harvest 2008 11 07 (Ch 4)

Unreported World ~Paraguay's Painful Harvest 2008 11 07 (Ch 4)

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This week's Unreported World comes from Paraguay, which has become one of the world's biggest suppliers of genetically modified soya - much of it destined to feed cattle that ends up on European plates.

The program reveals how our demand for meat is driving the industrial farming of soya to epic proportions. It's a phenomenon that's led to violent clashes between peasants, foreign landowners and the police, and accusations that insecticides sprayed on the crops are causing serious birth defects.

http://www.channel4.com/news/ontv/unreported_world/


Brazilians settlers have occupied large areas of rural Paraguay's hinterland and introduced mass GMO agriculture, displacing Paraguay's small subsistence farmers, and introducing the massive application of herbicides which destroys local food groups and sicken residents. The area is on the verge of clashes and the will of the new reformist government is to be tested. Recently world soya commodity prices have crashed.
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