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Janelle Sorensen

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

From Monsanto.com, “Monsanto is an agricultural company. We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world be successful, produce healthier foods, better animal feeds and more fiber, while also reducing agriculture's impact on our environment.”

From a jury in Alabama, Monsanto is guilty of behavior “so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society.”

My mother taught me that if you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, you shouldn’t say anything at all. My legal advisor tells me I should be careful about pointing fingers at specific companies because it might be construed as slander or libel. Common sense tells me I shouldn’t smear a company that farmers across the US refer to using terms like “Gestapo” and “Mafia.” But, I think you should know…

If Monsanto was a person, I wouldn’t want you to be his friend. In fact, I would want you to stay as far away from him as possible.

Monsanto is a multi-national corporation with a bent on controlling global agriculture in ways that don’t help farmers, don’t produce healthier foods and don’t reduce impacts on the environment. I don’t care what their website and PR staff say, Monsanto = very, very bad business.

Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself:

Vanity Fair’s April 2008 Green Issue covers Monsanto’s ruthless tactics against small farmers and its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
The World According to Monsanto is said to be a documentary that Americans won't ever see (but, thanks to google video, you can here).
The Organic Consumers Association is organizing Millions Against Monsanto. Find the latest Monsanto news, stories about small farmers being sued by the corporate giant, and Monsanto’s inside links to Washington heavy hitters like Clarence Thomas and Donald Rumsfeld.
The Center for Public Integrity covers Monsanto’s toxic legacy in Anniston Alabama, the most polluted place in the country.
Environmental Working Group’s Chemical Industry Archives reveal internal documents detailing Monsanto’s scandalous business practices.

And this is just the very tip of the iceberg of horror stories generated by this single corporation. They’ve generated enough fodder over the decades to fill their own multi-volume set of books: A Series of Truly Unfortunate Events.

You can join the growing opposition to Monsanto by:

avoiding genetically engineered foods

avoiding dairy products from cows given rBGH

avoiding Round Up pesticides