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Monsanto - and evil in the world

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"Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination."

Read on... http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/mon...

We need to end this sort of monopolistic corruption of human existence, and we need to support the small farmers. And although, if you prefer organic foods to this abomination of God's creations for profit, our FBI considers you a possible "terrorist" - it's clear to see they are in bed with Monsanto, grow your own food and put these guys out of business.

There is no reason whatsoever to do this to our food. My God did not get it wrong.
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16 responses // Monsanto - and evil in the world

  • 100% agree, I saw a documentary on these guys and the seed business general and they must be stopped. The want to control the world production of food completely. They are contaminiating the worlds natural plantlife with their modified plants.
    observer2121
  • XLNT post Voyager'

    Can you recall what the latest dairy industry campaign was...that "got milk?" well I wonder why aren't they raising hell now with a new slogan or something.... Are they in on it???
    echoz
  • monsanto is like a Man in Black (movie) monster that won't go away and needs to be zapped out of its existence.
    -
    not sure why we are the only mammals to still drink milk after being infants, but that my personal belief. It would be wrong from my vegetarian aspect to think that is wrong, but might be a good time to support your local milk provider if at all possible, or better yet make a small switch to rice or soy, which could be a short-term solution.

    Very lucky to reside near a high number to milk and creameries I suppose, in comparison to the rest of the USofA, and yes monsanto is a complete monster.
    meligrosa
  • http://library.thinkquest.org/25365/monsanto.html
    "...More importantly, they're [Monsanto] asking the World Health Organization's Codex Alimentarius to declare rBGH safe, when Codex meets in Rome this coming summer. If Codex approves of the use of rBGH, under the World Trade Organization's rules, Canada will no longer be able to ban rBGH, and Monsanto will be one step closer to its goal: World domination.

    The US government seems to believe that Monsanto's goal is worth supporting...When the French were reluctant to allow Monsanto's seeds to be grown on French soil, Secretary of State Madeline Albright and US Trade Representative Charlene Barshevsky joined Monsanto's cause. When the French still refused to allow the use of Monsanto's seeds, President Clinton personally took spoke with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and gave him "an earful". When that didn't work, Vice-President Gore followed up with a phone call to the French Prime Minister. Eventually the French gave in to the pressure by the highest levels of US Government.

    As Bill Lambrecht wrote in the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, "Wherever Monsanto seeks to sow, the US government clears the ground" He calls the US government Monsanto's "most powerful ally." ...From the White House and the National Security Council on down," Lambrecht writes, "the apparatus of the U.S. Government worked this year [1998] on behalf of biotechnology...

    It appears to us that the U.S. government may view genetically modified crops as a powerful new arm of U.S. foreign policy. Nations whose staple foods are grown from seed that they must purchase year after year from Monsanto are nations likely to see the world the way the U.S. wants them to see it. When asked, they are likely to play ball, whether they want to or not. And Monsanto's agricultural and political power will likely be unrivaled."
    echoz
  • Monsanto = The Real Doctor Evil
    aditijjoshi
  • Monarchy of the Monsanto. Real disturbing for smaller farmers.
    cibalin
  • "There is no reason whatsoever to do this to our food. My God did not get it wrong."

    You can have perfectly legitimate arguments about the business tactics of Monsanto and the products they create, but to springboard directly into some specious assertion that "all our foods are super-amazing perfect the way they are because god made them that way" is simply childish.

    There are many ways to modify our foods that improve their safety, nutrition and taste. Modifying the genes of certain plant foods in a manner that is safe for the consumer is difficult and expensive, but it is not at all impossible or entirely unneeded. For instance, we've bred most of the nutrients out of our corn stock to increase yields, and there are genetic modifications that could be made to increase its nutritional value. This could improve the diets of billions of people around the world.

    It's not a matter of your 'god getting it wrong,' but more to the fact that the rest of the flora and fauna on this planet were not created for our consumption, and are therefore not perfectly suited for it.

    In short, distinguish between the method and the maker. Monsanto can be highly unethical without the entire field of genetic modification being so.
    H3ADLINE
  • Wow. I've never heard of this. Really scary stuff.
    Neghie
  • h3adline- "the rest of the flora and fauna on this planet were not created for our consumption,"

    One such "food" that pops into mind is Cotton Seed Oil. It is not food! Cotton makes for good clothing. But we eat it. And it sure is in loads of stuff on the shelf. yum.

    hmmmmmmm...


    Oh ,and I think the nutrients are not so much bred out of the food as much as the soil is farmed poorly. If we have purposely bred food to be more mass and less nutrition than the point of feeding the world is out the window. Putting nutrition into the body is more useful than packing bulk through the digestive system. Unless the whole point of it is to kill the body faster. The film super Size Me" is a great illustration of that. We watch a man killing his body with more food and less nutrition. It's all rocket science. ;)
    twodee
  • I never equated Monsanto with world domination before.
    Does this mean that future buffets will have signs posted that proclaim,
    "All You Can Eat...is Monsanto!"?
    Screw it. I'm just going to start eating my old clothes.
    Same nutritional value, apparently.
    huntre
  • billy goat! ;)
    twodee
  • h3adline's retort smacks of a specious and reactionary argument against an already "Godly" natural balance reminding me of when doctors used to say we had no need of "vestigal" appendages such as tonsils and the like, only to find out later with more study and better intelligence that those so-called "vestigal" organs do indeed have rather important functions to fulfill, such that we don't blindly take them out on based on stupidity and the prideful presumption of illimitable "science" anymore.

    I don't agree with tampering with the food supply in the least. Especially when you know the primary motivation is merely for political and economic domination, and where CLEARLY safety is NOT the issue Monsanto or the U.S. cares about.
    echoz
  • h3adline - you are out of your mind.

    The day any man can create (let alone understand) the universe, I'll be a monkey's uncle.

    You can't be serious!?

    There are two ants running around in the kitchen. One says to the other, "I've been all across this universe (kitchen), I've been to the limit (walls) in every direction, there is a black hole in fact (garbage disposal) nothing comes out of, there are several types of regions where new foods mysteriously appear (the refrigerator and cupboards). I've spent a life time exploring this universe and have come to understand it, see it's limitations, and I can make it better."

    That was only one apartment on the 73rd floor - true story.
    VoyagerFilms
  • wow =D great movement in that story...I can even see helicopter shot zooming out from that 73rd floor as we fade out =P
    echoz
  • the F.D.A are the terrorists. what does food have to do with drugs...maybe billions. check out the history on quaker oats and their experiments on homeless children that were detained in labor schools during the depression.then you will know why that ol'quaker is smiling,probablywas thinking up monsanto .
    kingtsohg
  • NOW THEY ARE BUYING INTO HEALTH FOODS/ORGANICS! SAVE THE SEEDS!
    jjmaster

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