{"id":23200,"date":"2019-03-22T20:35:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=cf60c477947d4b20b728acbe74d54e78"},"modified":"2019-03-22T20:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:35:40","slug":"the-politics-of-pesticides-monsanto-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/03\/22\/the-politics-of-pesticides-monsanto-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics Of Pesticides: Monsanto Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through a series of mergers, pesticide companies are consolidating, taking over seed companies and pushing genetically-engineered foods. Companies such as Monsanto, now merged with Bayer, and Dow and Dupont, which have merged, are chemical companies with a long history of producing toxic chemicals, including chemical weapons used in warfare. We speak with Mitchel Cohen and Robin Esser, authors of \"The fight Against Monsanto\u2019s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides,\" who spoke about the corruption and health impacts of pesticides as well as the connections to imperialism and colonialism.<\/p> <p>Subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through, plus Clearing the FOG totes, water bottles and T shirts. Visit\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG\" rel= \"nofollow\">Patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG<\/a>.<\/p> <p>And visit the new Popular Resistance Podcast Network at\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularresistance.org\/prpn\/\" rel= \"nofollow\">www.PopularResistance.org\/prpn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/the-politics-of-pesticides-monsanto-under-fire\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a series of mergers, pesticide companies are consolidating, taking over seed companies and pushing genetically-engineered foods. Companies such as Monsanto, now merged with Bayer, and Dow and Dupont, which have merged, are chemical companies wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23201,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23200\/revisions\/23201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}