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.
| 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. |
| Trical Inc. Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 A largely mysterious entity, TriCal is owned and operated by its President, Dean Storkan. Together with some of his top lieutenants, Roger Hruby, Hank Maze and Tom Duafala, Storkan operates a series of thirteen related corporations in which he has significant, if not controlling financial interests. |
| Assorted and Sundry Barons Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Various other corporations and industry associations participate in the transnational effort to perpetuate the use of the Class I Toxin and Class I ozone depleter, methyl bromide. |
| Sun-Diamond Growers of California Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 The most blatent case of the Bromide Barons attempting to underine the democratic process with their financial influence is that of Sun-Diamond Growers of California. A large agricultural concern that uses methyl bromide to grow young fruit trees and to fumigate stored fruit and nuts. |
| Methyl Bromide Working Group Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Led by the Methyl Bromide Working Group (MBWG) and its chief lobbyist Peter G. Sparber, the Barons of Bromide are working on a number of fronts to undermine the U.S. Clean Air Act and thus to perpetuate the use of methyl bromide indefinitely. |
| Methyl Bromide Global Coalition Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 The Methyl Bromide Global Coalition (MBGC) has exerted significant influence on all aspects of the methyl bromide debate, inserting itself as a central player in international scientific panels, diplomatic negotiations and public pronouncements on the issue. |
| Dead Sea Bromine Group Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Dead Sea Bromine produces as much as 30 percent of world output of methyl bromide, which it exports to Europe, Africa, the United States and China. However, very little information is available on this Israeli transnational corporation. |
| The Bromide Barons Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 A handful of corporations control the methyl bromide industry. Enter the realm of the Bromide Barons. |
| Albemarle Corporation Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Today the Albemarle Corporation is one of the top three producers of methyl bromide in the world. Founded in 1887 to produce blotting papers for fountain pens, Albemarle stayed a paper products company for many years. |
| First Hand Experience by Alba Morales, Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Photos and words from farm workers and communities neighboring methyl bromide injected fields. |
| Push Back the Poison: Ban Methyl Bromide by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch March 31st, 1997 Methyl bromide is a silent killer. Colorless and odorless, it is highly toxic to a wide spectrum of organisms, including human beings. It would be fast on its way out today if it weren't for a small handful of corporations, industry associations and elected officials which have worked stealthily and assiduously to keep this deadly product on the market and in the field. |
| Farm Workers on the Front Lines CorpWatch March 31st, 1997 CorpWatch talks with Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers about their long history of working to ban dangerous pesticides. |