Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index.

Preface: A book for public health / Nicolas Hulot -- Introduction: The Monsanto question -- Part I: One of the great polluters of industrial history. PCBs : white collar crime -- Dioxin : a polluter working with the Pentagon -- Dioxin : manipulation and corruption -- Roundup: a massive brainwashing operation -- The bovine growth hormone affair (1) -- The bovine growth hormone affair (2) -- Part II: GMOs: the great conspiracy. The invention of GMOs -- Scientists suppressed -- Monsanto weaves its web, 1995-1999 -- The iron law of the patenting of life -- Transgenic wheat : Monsanto's lost battle in North America -- Part III: Monsanto's GMOs storm the south. Mexico : seizing control of biodiversity -- In Argentina : the soybeans of hunger -- Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina : the "united soy republic" -- India : the seeds of suicide -- How multinational corporations control the world's food -- Conclusion: A colossus with feet of clay. Follow journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin's three-year journey across four continents to investigate the practices of a multinational agribusiness corporation, Monsanto. Monsanto currently controls the majority of the yield of the world's genetically modified corn and soy, ingredients found in more than 95 percent of American households, and its legal and political tactics to maintain this monopoly are the subject of concern, especially to the world's small-scale farmers.