Transgenic soy: bread for today, hunger for tomorrow.

Monoculture has an unstoppable progress in Latin America. Only in 2012 were planted in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay 50 million hectares of transgenic soy. That is, an area of ​​over 200.000 kilometers the size of Italy; 150.000 kilometers over Germany's size and more than all Spain together.

The high value of the legume that has all eight essential aminoacids, soy has become a nutritional and therapeutic panacea.

According to research conducted by the University of Buffalo in the United States (U.S.), women entering this legume to your diet suffer 60% less breast tumor type. In men prevents prostate cancer.

But not everything is joy in the increasingly fashionable world of soy. This unique monoculture is destroying forests, replacing the territories previously devoted to wheat, corn and meat production, throwing out family farmers, indigenous and rural workers, and poisoning the water, land and air with genetically modified seeds and pesticides increasingly toxic.