Monsanto profiteering condemned by President of UN General Assembly

It wasn't long ago I read an article (course I don't remember where) about 1 or 2 major seed companies bribing (not the writers words) officials from the Indian Agricultural Department.
The article stated that the seeds from these companies were too expensive for most people.
The Indian government at the time had made it a law that if a farmer was caught trading seeds among themselves, they would be fined.
But farmers were doing it anyway. One of the reasons was because the large companies seeds did not produce healthy plants.
Yep...money, money, money.

And dare I say it? REPEAL NAFTA. Would the next president from either moneyed party do so even knowing what it has done to countries like Mexico now forced to take Monsanto's GM corn crap thus polluting their own crops and destroying their traditions all for the sake of profit? Why wasn't THIS part of their socalled staged 'debate' on foreign policy? You cannot go to any continent except Antarctica (though I am sure they would plant it there if they could) and some of Europe (where people actually are putting logic and health over profit regarding GMOS) without seeing these fake crops growing or on the verge of being sold! Even farmers in Iraq who are poor are now being forced to plant Monsanto's crap and pay for the seeds yearly as stipulated by Paul Bremer and this country's bogus set up government. Oh, but we can't touch this in a debate... we can't actually tell people THE TRUTH.

'The top 10 per cent of the world's people possess 84 per cent of the world's wealth, while the rest are left with the remaining 16 per cent. Yet we have the technical and productive capacity to adequately feed the whole planet."

THIS is why we can't feed people... because those with the means don't care about those who have not. The only shortage we truly have in this world is in compassion and humanity... and common sense. But the people also have power... we have the power to boycott and protest Monsanto and all companies that continue to do business unethically. It's time we use that power.

I think it is time that the American people stand up to the government and these large corporations. Its time for change, we have been so distracted and mislead as a people.

It's about time that this issue has been brought to attention. I'm glad to see the UN taking an initiative against Monsanto.

Monsanto is evil! It's management should be prosecuted by EVERY country they are in!

Down with Monsanto!

Remember, the Lord works in mysterious ways you evil scum at Monsanto - you should be afraid of the Almighty!

I think the continued attacks on our public education system and the gradual decline of the American IQ are both deliberate and catastrophic. Our collective focus is geared towards the temporal and the mundane, when it should be focused on our collective well being.

And you wonder why the terrorists hate our freedoms: freedom to plunder.

I don't think most people know where they're food comes from starting with the seed. If people spent a small portion of their day researching the junk they're eating and the effects it has for the world overall maybe, just maybe, people would boycott their sodas, chicken nuggets, and corn bio fuels. People need to wake up and smell the evils coming from Monsanto and Cargill and their lobbyists. To the farmers in Mexico whose native corn is becoming contaminated with GMOs, Indians who are losing money and even their lives from Bt Cotton crops, the thousands of acres in the rain forest being destroyed to be converted to Roundup ready soy crops, as well as those suffering from the food crisis mentioned in this article: I'm sorry. I wish I could take those bastards down myself.

"14. The essential purpose of food, which is to nourish people , has been subordinated to the economic aims of a handful of multinational corporations that monopolize all aspects of food production, from seeds to major distribution chains, and they have been the prime beneficiaries of the world crisis. A look at the figures for 2007, when the world food crisis began, shows that corporations such as Monsanto and Cargill, which control the cereals market, saw their profits increase by 45 and 60 per cent, respectively; the leading chemical fertilizer companies such as Mosaic Corporation, a subsidiary of Cargill, doubled their profits in a single year."

And this does not even take into account that Monsanto predicts a 1.8 Billion dollar profit in 2008 alone from selling their Round up poison herbicides that they force on farmers in these countries who must buy their seeds every year as they are not allowed to replant seeds. Sound like a company in business for the people or that cares about this planet? It is unspeakable that they are still in business after the destruction they have reaped on this planet from Agent Orange to Dioxin to Roundup to their fake food seeds. They truly make the words "corporate ethics" an oxymoron. How I wish we could boycott them out of business! People are starving and they are in collusion with organizations and governments bargaining in backdoor deals to make the most profit off their suffering!

Monsanto is akin to the devil.

there are few corporations in existence as horrible as Monsanto.

the basic premise of their company seems to be to
inflict as much human suffering as possible while turning
the largest profit possible.

Corporate Greed magnifies the problems of greed by 10,000 times.

Jan, I agree: corporations really need far more accountability to the condition of our fellow humans.

The whole body of law surrounding corporations is based on the assumption that their existence makes society a better place. This is a serious violation of that maxim.

Every word this man spoke is true. The only reason there are food shortages in this world is because developing countries are being forced to import food at higher tariffs while multinationals like Monsanto reap the rewards. And make no mistake about it, they are evil in their tactics and intentions. We have the technical ability to bring food to all of the hungry in our world as well as bringing education to help people sustain themselves without the intervention of organizations like the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, and others all in the palm of the hand of the US government and others calling the shots.

As he stated we need a major shift in our focus and our priorities away from these kinds of behaviors that actually cause hunger. Monsanto, Cargill, ADM, and other companies like them have not done anything to further the elimination of poverty and hunger in this world. They have used misleading PR and government favors to gain subsidies and shielding from the law in order to poison our planet while raising profits over the well being of others. It is so good to see the President of the U.N General Assembly condemining this. To all dessiminating truth about these companies, keep it up. We are getting the word out!