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The name of Monsanto does not, therefore, is unknown. A multinational North American curriculum vitae frightening: one of the biggest polluters of the industrial age (see box), now the world leader in GMO, whose monopoly threatens global food security. Marie-Monique Robin has immersed herself in research, passing days and nights on the Internet. First surprise: "Everything was there, under our eyes for a long time. This firm has had so many trials that many internal data to the company are declassified and available online. Then I went to check on the ground. "

For three years, the journalist travels the world, North America and South, Europe and Asia. Meticulously, she assembles the pieces. Above all, despite the refusal of the leaders of Monsanto to grant him an interview, she has not given up call to the firm, through written and audiovisual archives. "His book is not a pamphlet fed fantasies or gossip, Nicolas Hulot warns in the preface. It raises a real terrifying. "In fact, history tells us that Marie-Monique Robin is instructive. Orwell would not have done better…

A company ready for anything
Lies, falsification of studies, pressure on politicians, scientists and media… His documentary about two hours and his book, strong didactiquement, put exposing the unscrupulous methods employed by a company ready to do anything to get rich . The testimonies reveal the incredible ability to penetrate Monsanto decision-making bodies.

The organization of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Food and drug administration (FDA), the federal agency responsible for the safety of food and medicines, and even the White House… By placing his pawns in the highest levels, Monsanto has successfully completed a sleight of hand unbelievable: the adoption of the "principle of substantial equivalence", by which a plant GMOs is declared similar to a traditional plant. Reprinted anywhere in the world, this has led the global expansion of GM crops without any control of their serious effects on nature and human health.

Since the late 1990, Monsanto's transgenic seeds have invaded the world. In 2007, they covered one hundred million hectares (or 7% of the total global arable). Thanks to the marketing of these crops, Monsanto claims to promote a "local agriculture guarantor of a food self-sufficiency." Is it possible that this multinational, the source of agent orange or PCBs, feels now vested with the task of solving the problem of hunger in the world? The food self-sufficiency based on biodiversity.

But GMOs Monsanto go against this rule is the opposite of food security, "tranche Marie-Monique Robin, who says:" I am not against GMOs, I am against those of Monsanto. "Far from promoting the diversity of seeds, the North American company establishes on the planet monoculture that threatens the survival of farmers. Because beyond the health risk that could contain GMOs, it is their economic consequences which are currently dramatic. Monsanto has cut settled farmers worldwide, thanks to an ingenious weapon: patents. This intellectual property law requires farmers to buy seed from one year to another. From India to the USA, farmers, when they are not ruined by the prohibitive prices of seeds, live in fear of prosecution.

Monsanto, we will understand, is not in lace. Those who have dared to tackle the multinational have borne the brunt: scientists placardisés or dismissed, journalists brought to justice. In the light of the revelations of Marie-Monique Robin, there is reason to be worried: "When you play this kind of investigation, it becomes a bit paranoid "

Citizen awareness
In recent days the pressure relentlessly. For an imposing wall of protection is built between the journalist and Monsanto: that of citizens who took his investigation. "It left suddenly. All of a sudden, there were more than 10 000 hits on the Internet. "Even before leaving the book and dissemination of the documentary. This awareness citizen is his best bulwark against the multinational. It is also his goal: "Journalists are not just carrying microphones. We have a social and political role to play. I hope that people mingle finally what looks. "His inquiry may well make a decisive part in the ongoing debate by parliamentarians: the film will be presented to the National Assembly on March 31.