Brazil: Brazilian court convicts Monsanto

GM crops threaten our health, deteriorating the environment and destroy agriculture family or sustainable, aggravating hunger in the world.

To afirm in advertising that transgenic soy seeds were beneficial to the environment, has cost to the multinational Monsanto American agrochemicals fined $250,000 by the Federal Regional Court of Brazil.

Monsanto used misleading advertising to promote the soybeans, in year 2004, encouraging consumption of GM* seeds when even they were prohibited in Brazil. And they not only encouraged their consumption, but also claimed that these seeds were highly beneficial to the environment. This consideration took into account to the Court of Justice headquartered in the Porto Alegre city.

However, the Court fail can still be appealed. Be ratified the transnational you must pay 250 thousand dollars of compensation to disseminate misleading information.

But the world's largest transnational, and also the one that has most expedients might pay seven thousand million dollars to five million Brazilian soybeans farmers that have sued Monsanto for royalties.

Brazil is the second largest producer of GM* crops worldwide, surpassed only by United States. The vast majority of cultivated areas are soy that has been genetically altered by Monsanto to resist the herbicide Roundup, product of the same company.

*Genetically Modified