Thanks very much for the link! I printed a little of it out here because I think it is very important to understand what kind of company Monsanto (or Mon-Satan as the Europeans call them) really is:
Since 1901 Monsanto has given us many of the worst carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and teratogenic chemicals in the world, with which we have poisoned our environment and made Monsanto rich. Its history as foremost “corporate criminal,” according to the European research source CorporateWatch, began a hundred years ago with artificial sweeteners, ammonium nitrate fertilizers, styrene and polystyrene plastics (all carcinogens) and went on to worse with dioxin, Agent Orange, glyphosate (in the world’s bestselling herbicide Roundup), the 2,4 D family of pesticides, PCBs, aspartame, bovine growth hormone, and — since the 1990s — a devil’s kitchen of genetically engineered food plants; many more are still inside their laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, such as their current “genetic improvements” to pigs (Ontario Farmer, June 15) and plants that deliver medicine and vaccines. According to R. Fraley, Monsanto’s agricultural sectors co-president, “What you are seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it’s really a consolidation of the entire food chain.” Europeans call Monsanto “Mon-Satan.”*
Monsanto’s chemicals were used for war and agriculture, with war being at least an honest pursuit because its stated intent is mass-murder, while agricultural use of the same chemicals requires complex corporate strategies to disguise the slow poisoning of life through side-effects appearing much later. Not surprisingly, Monsanto also makes drugs which are generally also let loose on the market before real safety is established, a legally sanctioned business practice since applicable legislation is not precautionary but damage control oriented. So, by the time the dead can be counted, companies have been laughing all the way to the bank.
In the early 1990s Monsanto spent US$10 billion to buy up seed companies and introduced genetically engineered products starting with bovine growth hormone (see my articles Vitality Feb. 2000 and July 2001). Worldwide, 80% of all GM crops were developed by Monsanto. Whenever such a crop dramatically fails or causes environmental problems, Monsanto’s deep pockets and their powerful connections with governments work to buy or enforce silence (see Tokar below). GE soya beans were the first to expose what Dr. Charles Benbrook calls “Monsanto’s Big Lie”: contrary to Monsanto’s claims, they require two to five times more Roundup herbicide than conventional seeds, and instead of reducing the water needed, consumption increases. Ethical Investing lists Monsanto under “Health and Planet Destroying Products” and provides full information from medical science literature and the documented ecological destruction.*
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