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Monsanto Maelstrom

Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Posted by Janelle Sorensen
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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.

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