http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/monsanto-executive-is-among-world-food-prize-winners.html?hp

Monsanto Executive Is Among World Food Prize Winners

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For the first time in its 27-year history, a prestigious award for enhancing the global food supply has gone to a creator of genetically modified crops, a top scientist at Monsanto. Robert Fraley, Monsanto's executive vice president, will share the $250,000 World Food Prize with two other scientists who helped devise how to insert foreign genes into plants.

laurel writes: I have lots of four letter words to describe my thoughts about this, but I am forbidden from posting them on this forum.

THIS IS OUR STANCE ... which was published in Sierra Magazine, July/August 2001

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/profile.asp

Against the Grain: Why poor nations would lose in a biotech war on hunger

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