Blog #2- Globalization

So I have recently watched a couple of documentaries- The World According to Monsanto and Food Inc. for now. I am working on a couple more soon. I then just read our reading for Paul's class on Monday, and I think it is ironic how much of a correlation our reading is to what I have watched. The reading mentioned how the farmers in India purchased this magic cotton to grow in there fields to make money. It also talked about how people are growing monocultures to supposedly "make it" in the global market. I had no idea how much of a negative impact that the global market had on people. I knew that it was bad, but I never stopped to think that it really effected many people, the poor mainly, and only benefits a few rich people. These multinational corporations purposely lie to these people because they want to make money. These countries want to make money as well so they exploit their resources in order to make money. These countries could be sustainably farming and living well, many of them, because of their resources, but because these corporations have in a way "duped" many of them with the example of the golden cotton, these countries are now hurting and are living on untillable land because of the pesticides and are suffering many consequences because of this. I am right now not sure how we can fix this but we need to. It is sad that there are players in the governments and the world organizations that will side with these companies and not with the people. What happened to the good of the people? Where ARE our morals? I am very sad that I have been so sheltered all of my life. Seeing the reality is really upsetting, and to think that in a way I am contributing to this madness because of my purchasing many of the items that are being made in these poor countries and hurting the people and the land because of my purchasing products such as Dole bananas and Dove products. I then noticed though from Food Inc. that many of our products that we consider "green" are now owned by these big non ecofriendly companies, such as Tom's of Maine is owned by Colgate! What are we to do?