Dialog mit Peter Spiegel. Es gibt im Netz durchaus einige kritische Stimmen zu Yunus & Grameen's Firmenpolitik:

"What is surprising is that such a venture actually requires french technology and investment. In India, plenty of local milk cooperatives make milk, yogurt and derivative products. The largest player in India is Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, which owns the brand name Amul. The multinationals Nestle or Danone or nowhere in the game. Yunus could have easily obtained technology at near zero cost or free from Amul, and could have run the plant with his own money." indiamicrocredit.blogspot.com

Ein indischer Blogger hat einen Lokalaugenschein in der Grameen-Danone Fabrik gemacht: Coming back to town, I explored the local market and found that the yogurt is available. I bought a few pieces of the yogurt to have a taste. It is presented in a small cup, with a sticker to cover the cup and to display the name and properties The name given is Sakti Dai (Power Yogurt) is impressive and fortified with iron, zinc, vit A and iodine. The manufacture and expiry date has a difference of one week. The price of each cup is Tk 5, lower than other products available and those are also not fortified.bdoza.wordpress.com

Vandana Shiva schrieb anlässlich einer Kooperation zwischen Grameen und Monsanto(!):

Dear Prof. Yunus, When a few decades ago, you gave a few hundred Takas from your pocket to rural women in Bangladesh who were in the grip of a famine, you started a movement called "the grameen bank" which used microcredit to enable women to use their skills, their knowledge, their resources to build local markets for their products, rejuvenate their livelihoods and hence improve their food entitlements. When you announced your Joint Venture with Monsanto on June 25 in New York at the Microcredit Summit, you reversed that movement and took a step to betray the interests of the women you have served so far. The microcredit scheme linked to the Grameen Monsanto centre will create markets for Monsanto's products not the products based on the creativity of Bangladesh peasants. They will not build on the skills and knowledge and resources which women of Bangladesh have, they will wipe out their knowledge and resources and destroy their livelihoods and food security. hier

Die folge von diesem Brief im Jahr 1998 war, dass Yunus den Plan aufgab. Monsanto gründete trotz allem ein Büro in Bangladesh um in den Saatgut Markt des Landes einzudringen.