No I have not seen the video and speak for yourself for posting a topic and then a video and expect people to willingly watch the vid and debate about it. And post#2 has already said it, how can agricultural input be war chemicals ? If the answer is in the video , why don't you summarize it a bit so people could start from there? The thing is this could be very well your homework

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Added on September 6, 2010, 8:06 amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_India

that tells me how severe the drought in India has been along with other website after a simple search, so unless the Indian government back then want to keep letting farmer suicides to happen and people to die due to famine in that period. Then maybe they could have refrained from taking the aid from those world organizations.

Saying that it is the cutting edge of imperialism society is clearly ignorant that these types of heavily conditionalized contract has been happening all over the world for a long time and India is just another country that has gotten the short end of a geographical lottery. Bringing these points up in retrospect is almost not going to do more good because if she was the prime minister or authority of the Indian people at that time, I can so see that she's just going to let her people die than allowing pesticides and "miracle seeds" to enter the country. Also I don't know why she kept refraining from using the term GM food unless I missed it somewhere.

If the US used the pesticide to kill people in the Viet war then its a war crime on their part towards the Vietnamese and has nothing to do with farmers using it to improve the lives of their crops and yield. Also if the farmers are using fertilizers than Afghans are now making bomb out of to kill US soldiers from which the they sourced the stuff in the first place then again, it is the US problem.

It is exactly the same as the when the US armed the Iraqis during their against the Iranians only to find themselves fighting against an army when they went into the Iraq war, armed by some weapons they sold to them in the 70s or around that time, can't exactly remember when.

So stop making a joke out of agricultural input being war chemicals, thats like saying the diesel that are used to move the tanks rolling around in Iraq (withdrawing tho) is a war input that people are using to fuel long haul trucks carrying food and distributing it around the country (India). ???

There you go, sorry I really don't know any more than your average grade school homilies.