Monsanto Supersizes Farmers’ Weed Problem

[marmar]

from Civil Eats:


Monsanto Supersizes Farmers’ Weed Problem
By Karen Stillerman on December 17, 2013


So now the Monsanto Company thinks its bad reputation with the public is primarily an air time problem. As the agribusiness giant’s Chief Technology Officer (and recent World Food Prize winner) Robert Fraley told Politico recently, Monsanto has been “absolutely riveted and focused on giving technology and tools to farmers to improve their productivity and yield and we haven’t spent nearly the time we have needed to on talking to consumers and talking to social media.”

Seriously?

This is a company that spends, on average, $100 million per year on advertising. The past few years, it seems I can’t go to an airport (see cover photo) or ride the subway without seeing larger-than-life farmers smiling down at me from Monsanto’s ads. In 2011, the Business Marketing Association named Monsanto “Business Marketer of the Year.”

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A new policy brief from the Union of Concerned Scientists, The Rise of Superweeds—And What to Do About It, tells the story of how Monsanto’s wildly popular “Roundup Ready” system of engineered corn, soybean, and cotton seeds and herbicide has accelerated the predictable tendency of weeds to develop immunity to weed-killers, causing major headaches for farmers. A recent survey found that more than 60 million acres of U.S. farmland are infested with Monsanto’s superweeds—that’s an area roughly the size of the state of Michigan. .......................(more)

The complete pie: http://civileats.com/2013/12/17/monsanto-supersizes-farmers-weed-problem/#sthash.0Vyf1YTa.dpuf

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1. Has Monsanto Genetically Engineered It's Management Team for Irresponsibility and Greed?

How can a group of human beings be so greedy and irresponsible as the Monsanto cadre of
executives and directors appears to be?

Have they have performed genetic engineering on themselves to erase all normal
instincts of responsibility, decency and the ability to feel shame - replacing these with
an insatiable drive for money and power?

Normal human genomes and the people they inhabit, lacking these particular demon genes and drives,
will inevitably be crowded out by the Monsanto genotype.

And, if they don't get rid of normal people through competition and natural selection, then they will apply the sure fire tool of applying "Roundup" everywhere to contaminate the environment and wipe out what remains of empathetic, responsible humanity.

Next time you feel like an old-time "gunslinger" spraying the cracks in your driveway with Monsanto's toxic recipes remember -

They're out to get YOU.

[Marrah_G]

2. We have destroyed the soil with this crap

[Glassunion]

3. Monsonto is awesome!

Or so I've been led to believe here on DU.

We need to stop ignoring corporate funded science and stuff...