Articles by Puck Lo
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Monsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds
Puck Lo, CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Does Monsanto own all future generations of genetically modified seeds that it sells? The Missouri-based agribusiness giant wants farmers to pay a royalty to plant any seed that descended from a patented original. The legal decision has ramifications for other patented “inventions” that reproduce themselves like strands of DNA.
→ read full articleBP Wants To Blame Workers For Deepwater Horizon Spill, Says U.S.
Puck Lo - CorpWatch,
1 Oct 2012
BP, the British oil company, has been accused of attempting to blame “blue collar workers” in order to divert attention from management failures of “gross negligence” over the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. The allegations were made by the federal government in a recent legal filing by the U.S. Department of Justice that was initially kept partly secret.
→ read full articleCambodian Activists Call for International Sugar Boycott
Puck Lo – CorpWatch,
17 Sep 2012
Human rights monitoring groups and Cambodian activists are calling for an international boycott of Tate & Lyle and Domino Sugar, who do business with sugar suppliers accused of participating in government-sanctioned land grabs and illegal evictions throughout rural Cambodia.
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