 | Some Strings Attached: Cotton, Farm subsidies tie up global trade talks by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch December 13th, 2005 West African cotton farmers are among those hardest hit by government subsidized corporate agriculture. This week in Hong Kong, trade ministers from the 148 members of the World Trade Organization meet to discusss this and other global free trade issues. |
 | The Cows Have Come Home by Diane Farsetta, Special to CorpWatch September 1st, 2005 After fighting mad cow safeguards, the US beef industry complains about the consequences - a multi-billion dollar decline in exports - and a shortage of imported beef because of inadequate domestic testing and labeling. |
 | Playing Chicken: Ghana vs. the IMF by Linus Atarah, Special to CorpWatch June 14th, 2005 Thanks to the IMF and the World Bank, chicken and other local agriculture staples in Ghana are being replaced by subsidized foreign imports. |
 | Meat Packer's Union on the Chopping Block by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch April 18th, 2005 Today's meat packing industry relies increasingly on high-speed, treacherous disassembly lines. Perhaps that's why Tyson Foods, Inc. -- a giant in a flourishing industry -- is working to take apart a union that prioritizes safety over speed. |
 | Food Giants on the Run by Michele Simon, Special to CorpWatch March 21st, 2005 The food industry is working with politicians across the United States to rewrite laws in order to shield themselves from lawsuits based on obesity and related health problems. |
 | Paving the Amazon with Soy
by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch December 16th, 2004 Soy rules the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso and it's not the soy that much of the world associates with the ostensibly eco-friendly, vegetarian diet, either. With help from the World Bank, André Maggi (the Soy King) is bankrolling the destruction of one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems: the savanna. |
 | Dynamite in the Center of Town by Joshua Karliner, Special to CorpWatch December 2nd, 2004 In 1984 the world's largest industrial disaster killed 8,000 people over night in Bhopal, India. Two decades later, some sort of closure might seem called for. But today survivors groups continue to struggle for justice, while the chemical industry promotes volunteer initiatives. |
 | Clouds on the Organic Horizon by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch November 25th, 2004 Until a decade ago, organic foods were available only through tiny farmers markets, health and natural food stores, but today their growing popularity means that more organic food is now sold by chain stores like Whole Foods. Often, the food itself is grown on corporate-owned farms, no longer synonymous with small farms, rural communities, social justice and humane treatment of animals. |
 | Sweet and Sour by Jim Lobe, Special to CorpWatch June 23rd, 2004 A new report from Human Rights Watch reveals that American corporations such as Coca-Cola may be getting sugar from plantations in El Salvador that employ child labor. |
 | Barren Justice by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch May 13th, 2004 Nicaraguan banana workers have been struggling for compensation from Dole Fruit, Shell, and Dow Chemical for exposure to the pesticide DBCP. The obstacles to justice are many, including the US courts, powerful lobbies, and free trade agreements. |
 | Argentina Water Privatization Scheme Runs Dry by Sebastian Hacher, Special to CorpWatch February 26th, 2004 Rio de la Plata is one of the few rivers of the world whose pollution can be seen from space. Making matters worse is the privatized water company Aguas Argentinas, which dumps sewage into the river a few kilometers from where it treats water for drinking. |
 | Coke with Yet Another New Twist: Toxic Cola by Amit Srivastava, Special to CorpWatch January 17th, 2004 As the World Social Forum opens in Mumbai, India, the spotlight has been turned on Coca-Cola and Pepsi, whose products have been found to be laden with pesticides and insecticides. |
| An Unreasonable Woman by Helene Vosters, Special to CorpWatch May 15th, 2003 Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, is a long time environmental justice activist and adversary to corporate polluters like Union Carbide and Dow Chemical. In the early 1980's after witnessing dolphin die-offs, decreased fish catches, and increased health problems in her home-town of Seadrift, Texas, Wilson discovered that she lived in the most polluted county (Calhoun) in the U.S. |
 | Farmers Fight to Keep Monsanto's Genetically Modified Wheat Out of Canada by Tom Price, Special to CorpWatch March 5th, 2003 A coaliton of farmers is fighting to keep Monsanto's "Roundup Ready Wheat" out of Canada. They say GM contamination would threaten exports. |
 | Precision Farming: The Marriage Between Agribusiness and Spy Technology by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch October 2nd, 2002 Precision farming: high tech corporate responsibility or agribusiness expansion? We look at the use of satellites and new technology in farming. |
 | Biotechnology's Third Generation by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch April 5th, 2002 From golden rice to anti-viral tomatoes, is the biotech industry's third generation good medicine or good marketing? And, activists ask, what are the environmental consequences? |
 | Genetic Pollution: Biotech Corn Invades Mexico by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch March 20th, 2002 Mexican farmers say their crops are contaminated by GM corn. At stake: their harvest, native seeds and very livelihood. |
| Seeds of Resistance: Grassroots Activism vs. Biotech Agriculture by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch May 25th, 2000 SAN RAMON, CA -- About a dozen demonstrators dressed in mock biohazard suits dump food products from Safeway supermarket shelves into a plastic bin in front of the Marriott Hotel in this quiet suburban town East of San Francisco. |
| Stolen Harvest CorpWatch March 17th, 2000 Stolen Harvest is the story of how those who labor, those who grow foods, nature and her amazing creatures, are all literally being stolen by tremendously clever mechanisms being put in place by global corporations trying to find new markets. |
| Pete Wilson (Honorary Baron) Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Wilson's support for methyl bromide has certainly helped make him a powerful economic force in the political arena. |