SHOCKINGLY AWFUL: A US multinational company so powerful that it is able to write the US legislation that is beneficial to itself and hide it in another bill, all while the politicians are so beholden to its interests, so dependent on it for their campaign funding, that they will violate all principles of good conscience and pass the bill despite it doing continued and severe damage to the American real people!! Have you heard about the hard time wholesome US farms are having under the yoke of Monsanto? DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE REPLYING. http://www.infowars.com/monsanto-pr...orporations-more-powerful-than-us-government/ It’s called the Monsanto Protection Act among activists and concerned citizens who have been following the developments on the issue, and it consists of a legislative ‘rider’ inside (Farmer Assurance Provision,(*)Sec. 735) a majority-wise unrelated(*)Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill. You may already be aware of what this rider consists of, but in case not you will likely be overwhelmed by the Monsanto lobbying power. If this rider passes with the bill, which could be as early as this week, Monsanto would have complete immunity from federal courts when it comes to their ability to act against any new Monsanto GMO crops that are suspected to be endangering the public or the environment (or considered to be planted illegally by the USDA). We’re talking about courts that literally can do nothing to Monsanto if it’s found that their newest creation may be promoting cancer, for example. Whether it’s a GMO banana or an apple, Monsanto could continue planting the food abomination all it wants under court review. What really enraged Monsanto was the incident back in 2010, when a federal judge actually revoked Monsanto’s approval to plant GMO sugar beets due to concerns they could cross-pollinate neighboring crops requiring those crops to pay royalties to Monsanto. This is exactly what Monsanto intends to stop, literally becoming more powerful than federal courts in their conquest to monopolize the entire food chain. Monsanto Manipulates US Government Monsanto has literally gotten away with murder ever since it was founded way back in 1901. Very few people actually realize the history of this company. The company has historically produced chemical weapons including Agent Orange, dioxins, and a whole host of toxic substances extending to the consumer market. Created for the US military to be used during Vietnam as a ‘defoliant’, the concoction that was Agent Orange consisted of a medley of highly toxic ingredients including dioxin — a type of toxic substance considered to be one of the deadliest on the planet. Agent Orange, from Monsanto, killed 400,000 people and led to 500,000 children born with troubling birth defects. And in addition to those stats 1 million were rendered disabled or at least suffer from health issues from Agent Orange exposure. This includes US soldiers. So what happened to Monsanto after they designed a ‘defoliant’ that was actually a deadly chemical weapon that killed, maimed, and ruined lives of innocent people? Monsanto issued a statement that their Agent Orange wasn’t dangerous despite all of the evidence that is now accepted as fact: “We are sympathetic with people who believe they have been injured and understand their concern to find the cause, but reliable scientific evidence indicates that Agent Orange is not the cause of serious long-term health effects.” Oh, and they settled for what amounts to chump change in order to silence the dying veterans, paying only 45% of the 180 million dollar payout in order to make the veterans drop the charges. Then, of course, they eventually went on to make genetically modified crops and take over 90 plus percent of the GM seed market. A market that they have actually cornered by patenting their seeds, which India calls ‘biopiracy’. Before that, they mass produced toxic PVC plastics that we now know were morphing the hormones of consumers. But let’s also not forget that Monsanto has so many ties inside the US government that it has managed to slip into a very comfortable position. Former(*)Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto, Michael Taylor ultimately became a major head the FDA. Before that, Taylor conveniently worked specifically on Monsanto’s “food and drug law” practices. Specifically in regards to Monsanto’s synthetic bovine growth hormone (rBVH) that was supposed to revolutionize milk production before it was banned for producing puss-filled milk and making the cows and people who drank it likely diseased. But remember, this was before Monsanto decided to go for a more ‘blatant’ route. Now, instead of just operating in the shadows, Monsanto is pushing a much bolder move by drafting US legislation with the Monsanto Protection Act. It not only sets a troubling precedent for Monsanto, but also for other bloated multi-national corporations that want to obtain higher authority and immunity from US courts.
Good activist ninnes have killed more people by tying up new food sources in court over irratioanl fears than Monsanto has in it's entire history.
Isn't this sad man?? Full steam ahead with cancer and profit! That really sucks bad. - - - Updated - - - ...and it's profit factor just went up exponentially. (and still no labels I'm sure). Let's all just start drinking paint thinner and deprive them of their profits.
You probably mean people who are concerned about the food we eat and the farmers who struggle to make ends meet. Are there many like you? You know, anti-American Americans?
The amount of young males who have a hard time getting it up and young females who have a hard time getting pregnant and have hormonal issues which are unusual for their age is certainly worrying. I think it's the food. I've actually thought about doing a Supersize me style personal investigation. Do a specific diet for a while (which will allow me to subsitute most of it for GMO later on without much trouble). Test sperm count, do blood tests, etc. and then do the same diet but with as many GMO ingredients as possible, Test sperm count, do blood tests, etc. just to satisfy my own curiosity. That would probably be a better study than the revolving door garbage that has been done so far, or not done.
1st they wouldn't have complete immunity second. 2nd you largely get cancer or heart disease at 70 because you didn't die of tuberculosis or cholera at 40. It has nothing to do with the food. Europe which outlaws hormones in Milk is seeing the same problems to the same degree with early puberty in girls for exactly the same reason and following the exact same trend lines as in America which does. The problem is that is tied to fat accumulations in the body, x amount of fat ceels and voila girls hit puberty. As for people unable to perform effectively there are two primary causes, first we are on average older than ever before and second stress generated by a 24 hour news cycle and the constant hyperbolic reporting on all the worlds troubles usually with a negative qualifier in it. Stress and pain play hob with the libido. For instance, everyone here not cognizant with the actual data thinks the US has it's highest crime rates especially homicide rate ever when the actual data reveals that crime rates here have been in decline here for nearly 2 decades.
So what motivation could Monsanto possibly have to produce safe technology? What's more likely to happen? Unlimited, unrestricted profit for the few at the expense of the very many.
Monsanto would certainly have that market locked up then, wouldn't they? (To be distributed by Walmart as a non labeled processed food product, no doubt).
For me the big worry is cross pollination. There are few distinct strains of some basic plant foods. For years we have agreed with Russia, for instance, to keep our corn away from theirs. (Most corn varieties are sub strains of one or the other). That way one blight could not wipe out the entire world's seed. I assumed some day food would be fought over even in modern countries, never imagined how it would come about. Scary stuff.
Monsanto will sue you now if your seed becomes cross pollinated with theirs. Ask any formerly successful farmer.