What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Henk Hobbelink Regulatory agencies in the US, Argentina, Brazil and South Africa are considering applications for approval of a new GM soybean resistant to the herbicide 2,4-D, a well-documented human health and environmental hazard and an ingredient in Agent Orange. Henk Hobbelink, coordinator of GRAIN, 2,4-D describes this as part of the agribusiness GM seed strategy to control "the immense market for agricultural inputs and toxic herbicides" and to defeat those who continue to resist agribusiness incursions into their homelands. Henk notes the irony of 2,4-D's re-introduction to counter rapid spread of glyphosate-resistant superweeds that exist by having adapted to survive repeated sprayings of Roundup. GRAIN is an international NGO supporting small farmers' struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems