The World According to Monsanto

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On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-842180934463681887&q=monsanto+according&total=6&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Very scary stuff and more evidence that corporate persons have the right to fuck up the world at the expense of normal every day persons.

[Muttocracy]

1. Monsanto and a similar handful of companies have a frightening influence

on our food supply (GMOs, pesticides, food processing).

[NightWatcher]

2. a truly evil company....

Clinton Administration Appoints A Former Monsanto Corp. Lobbyist To Represent US Consumers On Genetically Engineered Food Issues
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/072600-03.htm

Published on Monday, July 24, 2000 in the San Francisco Chronicle

Leading consumer and environmental groups are fuming because the Clinton administration has appointed a former Monsanto Corp. lobbyist to represent U.S. consumers on a transatlantic committee set up to avoid a trade war over genetically engineered foods.

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20080222.htm

Clintons poison the cake and then pass laws to make us eat it, too

Hillary is really a one-issue politician. Her methods are texbook Hegelian dialectics: Create the problem then offer the solution. The problem is epidemic acute and chronic illness from a chemically and genetically adulterated food supply, contaminated water and pharmaceutical drugs; the solution is mandatory healthcare. The company she keeps stands to gain a lot from this sinister combination.

A 2,200-word Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from Linn Cohen-Cole of Atlanta dated Feb. 2, 2008, asked the NY senator to justify her relationship with U.S. agrigiant Monsanto. Cohen-Cole, qualified her concerns by stating that, "By polling logic, I should be your supporter—Democrat, older woman, white, liberal. I was even in a dorm with you in college. I have pulled for you for years. But something this past summer fundamentally changed my responsibility to my children and grandchildren. In the time I have left in my life to protect them and others, I need to speak out."

[izquierdista]

3. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature

And futile as well. As hard as Monsanto tries to keep their genes and splices secret, little itty-bitty plasmids will exchange, microbes will mutate, plants will cross-fertilize, and diversity will flourish. They are a bunch of little pissants yelling "mine, mine, mine" grabbing at the wind, spray-painting "no trespassing" signs on the tide, and hogging all the sunshine. Their intellectual property briefs are the tales told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

They are the fragile ones, just a couple idiot business decisions away from bankruptcy, while nature which has existed for eons will continue right on recycling their putrefying corpses into new life.

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4. Posted this late Sunday night. Kick for the Monday crowd. n/t

[The2ndWheel]

5. "Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity"

Monsanto is just the endgame of thousands of years of what we've already been doing. Monsanto is really the only possible outcome of domestication, just on a global scale.

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6. In this film they tell of a family of farmer who were sued by

Monsanto - for saving their seeds from the previous year's crop. Monsanto claims they have the patent on the seeds.

[The2ndWheel]

7. And most people don't farm

We give up control over food to have the reality of 2008(and that of the last few thousand years). At one time, everyone had to hunt for their food. Then we started activity growing food, and a few people no longer had to do anything directly for their food. Then we got better at growing it, and fewer people had to do anything for their food. That's why we had kings, and that's why we have presidents and ceo's today(and anyone else who isn't a farmer).

If the energy is cheap enough(oil, solar, whatever), Monsanto will not be going away. Their control over the DNA of plants will only increase. That's what the human corporation wants anyway; complete control of the environment. Monsanto just gives us an increased ability to attempt to mold life to fit us. It also gives everyone the ability to chase their dreams, since the food is always there. Monsanto is simply the current culmination of thousands of years of momentum. If that trend continues, whatever comes after Monsanto will be even worse.

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8. This is a really good film that exposes Monsanto's efforts to

patent our food.

Can I PLEASE get some K&Rs at least for today so that this film gets out there?

Thank you.

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9. K&Rs? Pretty please? Important issue. n/t

[silverweb]

10. Too late to R, but definitely a deserving K.

:kick:

[riverdeep]

11. The only reason Biotech hasn't taken over the world is because of Europe's resistance.

In America, the resistance was crushed fairly easily. But they're regrouping and ready to take over once and for all.

Marking to watch later.