In less than a decade...[Paraguay] has gone from being a small-time soya producer to the world’s fourth largest exporter of the cash crop in the world...Almost all of Paraguay’s soya exports are now genetically modified...According to Cipriano Vega, a local farmer and long-time resident [of San Isidro], the chemicals required for GM soya have contaminated the water supply, destroyed non-resistant crops and caused a major deterioration in public health. [refers to Cargil, Bunge, Arthur Daniels Midland, Monsanto]