Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments … - Wangari Maathai

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Wangari Maathai

Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.

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