Monsanto suing Germany to force lifting of their GM MON 810 corn ban

GavinRags,

Any doubts that might have existed about those sweetheart international trade deals in which all countries agreed to waive their own laws (solely to protect the profits of companies, like Monsanto) are confirmed.

As in the collapsed world of international finance Governments basically agreed to absolve themselves of any responsibility

1/ to enforce their own laws to protect their citizens and then masked dereliction of duty as economically heroic Deregulation..

2/ handed the role of deciding which products are unsafe to rich rogue corporate mini-states with a penchant for lawsuits and a disdain for burdensome expenses like quality control..

In short, the people who claimed that trade laws weren't meant to protect trade, but just to knock down public safeguards - legally - were right.

Those who claimed that the worst and richest corporations would abuse the system?

Why shucks, they just didn't understand how a free marketplace completely bent towards the least level playing field ever imagined is what the public really wanted. Frankly neither do I.

And theres that's that huge benefit to jobs... oh wait, jobs are the last thing what's left of industry is creating. We're not employing - we're disemploying our population. The same population whose money feeds these same corporations.

Shortsighted?

Trade deals to date offer veto power over foreign governments by mega-corporations, whose servants just happen to include our politicians. Will the world's governments crack down on this nonsense?

Not until they become a lot more desperate to quell public outrage, as in a repeat of the 1930's..

Any bets?

monsanto is a crass and greedy entity.
Is Germany left with no sovereignty just because it's part of the union?
Go ahead Germany! Keep telling Monsanto to go fuck themselves!

Mansanto should be put out of business.

Compared to Monsanto's corporate mentality the Mafia's attitude of "don't ever be too obvious" is like the difference between a psychopath and a day care center.

A big priority to help restore respect for the US Government here and overseas?

Knock some sense into these clowns or bust the company into a thousand pieces.

"The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative." - Vandana Shiva

Fuck Monsanto, they are ruining peoples lives for profit.

If you have to sue countries to FORCE them to grow your crops .... Monsanto should not exist . Well done spreading the word .

I never put it there and wouldn't. So no big deal to me.

Hey Jan, I'm removing this article from the US Politics channel. Not once in the above excerpt is there any mention of the United States of America, so therefore, it doesn't belong on the US Politics Channel. Tagged it with European Union.

There are no words to express the amount of arrogance it takes to do this. What is the EU? A scientific consortium, or a bunch of polticians who can be bought off by Monsanto just like this government has? Because the EU gets payoffs to say it is "safe," all farmers who live in countries that are part of the EU MUST plant their BT crap?

You see, this is the plan. Buy off governments to force it on those who will have nothing else. I say, if you have to sue countries to FORCE them to grow your products, you aren't a good company! It shouldn't matter what the EU says, countries should have the freedom of choice to plant what they want!

And notice in this article that their socalled Monsanto mouthpiece stated that the information used to come to the decision by Germany's environmental minister to not plant MON810 was not "new." They didn't refute the information represented however.There are enough horror stories about this 'corn' to fill a book, but in the end they will simply buy off governments, juries, judges, and anyone that stands in their way of total global food domination. I really am so sick of reading about them doing nothing but forcing their fascist BS on the world. If any court finds for them in this case, I hope every one of their fake plants is ripped out of the ground. Satyagraha.