The World According to Monsanto,

[Guest guest]

10/18 Screening Of " The World According To Monsanto " & Sandi

Trend, Mother Of Injured biotech worker Bell

" The World According to Monsanto " Documentary Screening (sponsored by

Students for Nader)

Documentary Showing Followed by Q & A with Sandi Trend (mother of

injured Biotech worker, Bell), Steve Zeltzer of the Peace

& Freedom Party, members of Students for Nader, and others

2:00 PM Saturday October 18, 2008

UC , Chemistry 194

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The World According to Monsanto — A detective story that follows a

trail of deception, devastation, and death left by a corporate serial

killer whose weapons include bovine growth hormone,

defoliants/herbicides/insecticides, dioxin, genetically-modified

crops, PCBs, seed patents and other so-called intellectual property.

Directed by Marie- Robin (France, 2008, 109 min) In English

with voiceovers.

For More Information contact: Snow rjsnow@...

Press Release

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The Students for Nader (DSN) club at UC is sponsoring a

showing of " The World According to Monsanto, " a documentary by French

filmmaker Marie- Robin about the biotech giant Monsanto who

makes herbicides such as Roundup and owns much of the GMO seed

companies across the globe. The movie details environmental crimes

and health violations committed by Monsanto. The company is thought

to also practice bully-tactics against smaller biotech companies,

while suing independent farmers everywhere and monopolizing

third-world production of seeds with their expensive GMO products.

An informative article on Monsanto can be found in the May 2008 issue

of Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805

In , California, a local company Agraquest is headed by Pam

Marrone, the former head of the Insect Control Group at Monsanto.

Agraquest appears to be following in its parent company's footsteps,

as seen in the case of one of its injured employees. Bell, a

biology major and chemistry minor at CSUS, became ill while working at

Agraquest on a project called Liginex (now packaged as Laginex, it

refers to the fungus lagenidium giganteum), being infected by fungus

and bacteria which caused him to have several surgeries and resulted

in hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills. He has been

unable to receive help for his medical bills from the company and from

Worker's Compensation. Former Senior Public Medical Officer at

Cal-OSHA Larry Rose, M.D., used this case to discuss the breakdown and

corruption of the worker's compensation system, including deregulation

and the firing of doctors at Cal-OSHA.

Some informative articles about Agraquest are below:

http://biotechnology.kaiserpapers.info/

http://www.workersmemorialday.org/documents/fungus.htm

Bell's mother, Sandi Trend, and the author of the above article,

Steve Zeltzer, will speak after the showing about Monsanto and its

child-company Agraquest. The showing will be at 2pm in Chemistry 194,

this Saturday, October 18, 2008.