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Help NationofChange Stand Up Against Monsanto!
NationofChange / Video Feature
Published: Friday 30 March 2012
Monsanto effectively owns most US diplomats, and is currently using this political capital to start “Trade Wars” against nations opposed to Monsanto’s destructive policies.
The multinational biotech giant Monsanto is the world’s leading producer of genetically modified seeds and crops, responsible for 90 percent of the genetically engineered seed on the United States market. Researchers found that consumption of GMO corn or soybeans may lead to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice-particularly in the liver and kidneys.
Monsanto, the company that brought the world Agent Orange, is also the creator of the best-selling herbicide Roundup, which has spawned over 120 million hectares of herbicide-resistant super weeds while damaging massive amounts of soil.
Monsanto has created several varieties of “superbugs”. Monsanto engineered genetically modified crops containing Bt, a toxin incorporated in GMO crops which has spawned insect populations which are resistant to bio pesticide. Insect populations have and are mutating to resist the bio pesticide. So far, at least 8 insect populations have developed resistance, with 2 populations resistant to Bt sprays and at least 6 species resistant to Bt crop as a whole. Farmers are therefore forced to use even more pesticides to combat the resistant bugs.
Monsanto may be destroying the planet’s soil. Certain bacteria essential as “food starters” such as L cremoris, used in raw and fermented dairy products have begun to disappear in certain geographic regions. The case has been found to be an element of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, glyphosate that is destroying and/or altering the microbial biodiversity of the soil, jeopardizing the fertility of the entire biosphere.
Monsanto has been caught running “slave-like” rings, holding off pay, and forcing undocumented workers to buy their food only from the Monsanto company store. The company not only “hired” all of the workers illegally, but also prevented them from leaving the farm premises and withheld their salaries.
Monsanto effectively owns most US diplomats, and is currently using this political capital to start “Trade Wars” against nations opposed to Monsanto’s destructive policies. France, Hungary, and Peru are a few of the countries that have decided to stand up to Monsanto, going as far as destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with GMOs.
Peru has passed a monumental 10-year ban on modified foods and French legislatures are planning to launch new restrictions regarding the use of Monsanto’s 810 maize on French soil.
Monsanto poses one of the greatest threats on the planet to human health and the environment. NationofChange is teaming up with activists across the country for an ongoing campaign to fight back against one of the worst corporations in the world.
The first step: raise awareness about Monsanto’s crimes against human health and the environment.
This month, we are raising $6,200 for an educational and enlightening billboard campaign targeted in Monsanto’s home county of St. Louis Missouri.
Learn more at NotionofChange.org/armsrace
2 comments on "Help NationofChange Stand Up Against Monsanto!"
April 04, 2012 8:12pm
I'm glad to hear today the Euro-block deadlocked (at least) on Monsanto seeds and that Poland made a stand saying "no GMO corn" in their country. Monsanto's goal is to have their GMO sees fly into farmland all over the world. They've destroyed multitudes of family farms across the country. They beat back an unbelievable 300,000 organic farmers in US District Court. They will outspend any little guy and force them to settle - if the little guy even gets that far. It's disgusting this is allowed by OUR supposed representative government but the lobbyists are not shocked AT ALL.
I think this is a decent first step to put up a billboard in Monsanto's backyard. Hopefully there will be more and bigger things to come. They really are unchecked, as are other biotech giants. AND, Obama appointed a Monsanto exec to the FDA! (wtf) The good old FDA (and USDA), looking out for people - yeah, right.
I donated. Did we make it or not?? What/where are the results of the fundraiser?
March 30, 2012 1:53pm
The government has been long-since hijacked by self-promoting salesmen, who are of course beholden to the corporazis who fund their campaigns.
In exchange, they build up industry-friendly infrastructures at direct taxpayer expense (infrastructures said industries themselves would never fork over even a single dime to pay for) then deliberately down-size and out-source the labour required to operate same, in order to make them seem "bloated and inefficient" as a prelude to then selling them off to those same corporate sales-masters at fire-sale prices, upon the completion of which said sales-puppets ('politicians') will retire to their comfy do-nothing make-work rewards on those corporations boards of directors. Same old every time!
As someone once said, "No one would spend millions of dollars to be hired for a position which pays a salary of a few hundred thousand, unless they were planning to steal it all back and more!"
As for the corporate food industry: food is a NEED - so it isn't affected by the usual supply-and-demand rules; if the cost rises, the demand can not decrease!
That makes the food industry into an addictions industry!
If and when Monsanto can literally destroy it's competition by destroying and replacing their crops, they will own the world because they can then set the prices and so determine who lives and who dies! (Every see one of those "The Omen" movies, where Damian the antiChrist tries to take over the global food production industry?)! Same with president Aboma!