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Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Sociedad, Naturaleza y Desarrollo
2002
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- The geo-politics of Genetic Modified Organisms Brewster Kneen Estudios Culturales The dismantling of national sovereignty and social integrity, the deliberate and systematic violation of anyand all boundaries, and the systematic violation of the integrity of organisms are the hallmarks ofglobalization as well as genetic engineering.This is the context in which the deepening integration ofArgentina and Brazil into the global corporate operations of Monsanto and Cargill, from the molecular to thenational level, are analyzed here using the example of soya. After selling its global seeds business toMonsanto in 1988, the two companies then formed a joint venture, Renessen, "in the first global alliancethat spans the agricultural value chain."Nature responds to such efforts to control and profit through aglobalized monoculture (and oligopoly) with mutations and adaptations that produce a diversity of biologicalmechanisms to overcome such assaults. Therein lies our hope and example. 2002 artículo científico 1666-2830 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=12400508 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=124 Theomai application/pdf Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Sociedad, Naturaleza y Desarrollo Theomai (Argentina) Num.5