“Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe:” Interview with Goldman Prize Winner Jesús León Santos

Posted on: April 28th, 2008
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“Biotech corporations that developed genetically modified seeds are bribing authorities and carrying out costly advertising campaigns “plagued with lies in order to create monsters that attack life,” says Jesús León Santos, an indigenous man who is one of this year’s winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

“We showed them that the cultivation techniques of our ancestors are the best and that they represent life. We are on the right path,” León Santos said in an interview with Tierramérica correspondent Diego Cevallos.”*

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