Feeding the bank balance: GMOs, development and the politics of happiness

The Ecologist
Mar 14, 2016, 3:42 pm95 pts
To understand how technology is used in the real world we must appreciate who owns and controls it, writes Colin Todhunter: whose interests it serves, and how it works in an economic system driven by profit, geopolitics and the compulsion to capture and control markets - while the monopolists proclaim a noble…

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