Agriculture
Lula's Green Light for Monsanto Has Flooded Brazil with GMO Soya & Increased Amazon Deforestation
December 1, 2008 09:53 AM - , Organic Consumers Association
*Lula's government promotes genetically-modified organisms despite social opposition. Brazil is home to one of the world's largest areas of genetically-modified seed cultivations with 15 million hectares in 2007. The greatest increase of these crops occurred under the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, despite growing opposition from Brazilian farmers and environmentalists.


