"The World According to Monsanto"
Submitted by legalizeliberty on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 08:19
Forget GMO labeling on food products! Bills in Congress now will Monopolize control of the American Farming industry & OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING!! The bills, if passed into law, will effectively make the American Farmer an endangered species! Monsanto's NWO vision is to control all seeds & nationalize all farms!
SEED & FOOD CONTROL = PEOPLE CONTROL!!
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From David Klein, Ph.D, raw fooder
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Friends,
Help stop a former Monsanto executive from working in the White House!
Currently America is in the middle of a record food safety crisis and it could get a whole lot worse.
There's a possibility that former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor and irradiation proponent Dr. Michael Osterholm will be named to top food safety spots in the new Administration.
We need your help to defend America's food supply. Write Secretary Vilsack ( AgSec@usda.gov ) and tell him to stand strong on food safety.
Ask Secretary Vilsack to say no to Taylor and Osterholm.
1. Michael Taylor , a former Monsanto executive, whose career literally fits the definition of the revolving door between government, lobbying and corporate interests. Before serving on the Obama ag transition team , Taylor made a name for himself rotating in and out of law firms, Monsanto, the USDA and FDA. While at the FDA he helped write the rules to allow rBGH into the American food system and our children’s milk. Now we’ve learned that Taylor may be in line to run an office in the White House on food safety!
2. On Monday, Secretary Vilsack is set to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael Osterholm , a food safety expert, to lead the Food Safety agency at the USDA. According to Food & Water Watch , Osterholm has been “a zealot in promoting th[e] controversial technology (of irradiation) as the panacea to contaminated food.”
Irradiation allows food processors to nuke disease from contaminated food at the end of the production line, while ignoring the root problems that create unsafe food.
For Osterholm, the recent peanut butter fiasco apparently was just another example of how irradiation could save the day. "Clearly it's a problem where the raw peanut butter or paste is consumed and not cooked," Osterholm said.
About the magnitude of America’s most recent food safety crisis, Osterholm said, "The recall has reached a level that is far beyond what's necessary."
Try telling that to the relatives of the nine people who died and to the over 600 sick individuals across the country.
"This was like peeling an onion," Osterholm continued. "It demonstrates the magnitude of processed food in this country."
Well, at least he got that much right…
The problem, Osterholm doesn't take constructive criticism of his favorite technology lightly. In 1999 he wrote an editorial calling food safety advocates who questioned the safety of irradiation terrorists .
This doesn't sound like the type of leader that the USDA needs right now. If you think this is bad news, let the Administration know about it!
Join Food Democracy Now! in calling for true reformers to be placed in positions at the USDA, FDA and beyond. We need a food safety system with some teeth - one that is independent of corporate interests.
Write Secretary Vilsack and ask him to reconsider these decisions.
If you’d like to see Food Democracy Now! grassroots work continue, please consider donating as little as $10 or $25 . We need all your support to be able to create the change that is needed at the USDA.
Thanks again for helping make this a success, it's time to join together to create Sustainable Change.
**** Please cut and paste the below email and send it to Secretary Vilsack at the following address:
AgSec@usda.gov
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
I ask that you take the lead in helping America protect the safety of its food supply by appointing a real reformer at the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) position and advising President Obama not to name Michael Taylor to any position in the administration.
Please appoint someone other than Michael Osterholm, who has proven to be too biased in favor of a single technology that has been ineffective in stopping food safety outbreaks and is something that most American consumers don’t want.
I took the President at his word when he said he would close the revolving door in this new administration and I know that you want to lead a new era at the USDA.
Please appoint true reformers to positions within the USDA to help you transform America’s food and farm system for the 21st century.
Thanks for your consideration.
Sincerely,
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
Secretary Ballsack will probably not want to help.
Here's an article on "Monsanto's boy".
"Food Democracy Now wants people to "[w]rite Secretary Vilsack (AgSec@usda.gov ) and tell him to stand strong on food safety."
"But isn't that the same Vilsack who has no record on food safety, a strong record of support for Monsanto and genetic engineering, and oversaw a huge increase in CAFOs in Iowa and the loss of thousands of small farmers? How is he supposed to "stand strong" on something he has never stood on before and actually supports the opposite of? And he's Monsanto's boy and the guy who dreamed up the Monsanto laws that preemptively remove democracy from communities wishing to control what is planted on them or how farms are used."
"It appears that Food Democracy Now is being played by Vilsack and as they focus on him and what he does, good or bad, they accidentally distract the whole organic community from the most massive danger we have ever faced - a take over of our food supply through those bogus "food safety" bills. I believe the timing on Merrigan's appointment was chosen to distract progressives until the bills have been shoved through, and then, additionally to throw people off-guard, Vilsack goes and makes a PC speech on civil rights."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-s-Michael-Taylor-b...
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Monsanto
My father-in -law worked for Monsanto. He was part of the maintenance crew charged with containing "hot" material. Oh the stories he would tell. Back in the early days they had no idea what they were dealing with. One thing they did was flush and wash many materials right down the open sewer. The municipal swimming pool where his children spent every summer day was directly downhill of the plant. After closing down the facility the Feds came in and paid to clean up the mess and move the pool. They poured a lot of concrete into that hillside.
My father-in-law died from tumors. At his funeral there weren't many old friends, they were already gone. My mother-in-law got a settlement, as did many of the dead workers families. Office workers attempted to seek damages but they were met with resistance. They wanted to have all the paperwork and office stuff tested for radioactivity but they couldn't have the tests done. Everything, including the staples and paperclips, is buried somewhere out in Arizona or New Mexico.
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Monsanto is a crime against nature
Monsanto is STILL trying to put a patent on seeds so that farmers can no longer grow new crops from their own seeds.
Monsanto's seeds grow crops with no seeds inside of them, basically a dead-end crop.
Monsanto's seeds grow crops that taste like crap because they've been turned into Frankenstein food.
If you pay the FDA enough, they will certify anything organic -- even if it's been genetically engineered by Monsanto to produce no new seeds.
How can you tell if it's a Frankenstein fruit, even if it's labeled "organic"? When you cut an orange open and there's no seeds inside. Or strawberries or tomatoes that stay days or weeks in the refrigerator without going bad. Onions the size of cantelopes.
Monsanto is a crime against nature. Anyone that thinks differently is either working for Monsanto, has no knowledge of fruits and vegetables, or is in huge denial.
i want to bump this post
i want to bump this post because i think that this is an interesting discussion. I am also curious about your concluding paragraph:
"Monsanto is a crime against nature. Anyone that thinks differently is either working for Monsanto, has no knowledge of fruits and vegetables, or is in huge denial."
Do you mean the specific company's actions are a crime against nature or that the idea of genetically modifying crops in general is a crime against nature? If the latter, then is trying to create biofuels from the breakdown of plant cell walls another project that is a crime against nature? There seems to be a strong distrust of science among certain members of this website, which is a concern.
Some of the stories that people have asked mt to look into seem more sensationalist than good criticism. The farmers in India committing suicide seems to be more of a political concern than a scientific one. The crops didn't grow and the farmers were lied to, it's not that they grew and made people sick or something. Saying that they committed suicide "because of GMO seeds" is stretching the truth quite a bit.
Any company that deals death into seeds...
...makes me quite wary.
Terminator seeds. ~cringe
Pity the diabolical mind that thinks things like these. Perverting laws and food to enslave people.
Bloody hell.
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To the person that said
To the person that said cross pollination and genetic manipulation are different, they only difference is the amount of time. If humans kept growing crops for 1,000 more years, it could be possible that by the end of it, the plants would have developed their own natural secreted herbicides. With genetic modification, you are just speeding up the process.
It may seem different than hybridization and cross pollination because rather than slowly creating a functional gene from a partially-useless one over many generations, you are immediately introducing an entire gene sequence into the plant. But on a cellular level, the difference you are making to the plant is minuscule.
I do not personally have seeds from 4,000 BC but I have seen pictures of primitive crops growing in different parts of the world that have not been placed under the same evolutionary pressures as our versions of the same crops, and they are almost different plants entirely. The "organic" tomatoes that you grow in your home garden have undergone thousands of years of genetic modification through selection pressures, so you shouldn't be scared of improving crops just because humans have found a much faster way to do it.
Not to mention that GM has the potential to be a vast improvement over the thousands of gallons of pesticides we have to use currently. I know some people think that if you are conservative that you want everything to be old-fashioned but if we use this technology correctly it could have an unprecedented impact on the planet.
I would like to reaffirm
I would like to reaffirm that monsanto is not paying me and I haven't investigated their company in much detail. I read this website pretty much every day but I rarely post, but since I have seen so many threads regarding chemtrails, fluoridation, vaccination, and other topics that people are overly hysterical about, you can see why I might think the reaction to GM crops may be in a similar vein.
When you work in a university, most of the professors and the graduate students are well-meaning but slightly confused liberals. They don't read about Austrian economics or really understand the complications associated with many government policies, so a lot of the time their political views are worthless. But they do put a great amount of understanding into their work, and the people that work to create these new crops try hard to address every potential problem that exists with them.
As with many other industries, big corporations like monsanto are demonized but they have a place. If they become so huge that they are violating laws and receiving favors from the government, then they will seem evil. In order for the scientists to move on and make more discoveries, they generally will start a small business that gets bought up by a corporation like monsanto, which makes the whole process more efficient. With the extensive regulations imposed by the FDA, it now costs millions to jump through enough hurdles for it to become legal to grow any GM crops. It is coming to the point where only a huge, already established corporation with massive teams of lawyers and unlimited funds will be able to introduce new products to the market.
You are right that there are definitely serious issues that need to be addressed when we are trying to apply GM crops to a wide-scale use. But there are a lot of serious people working on those issues, and it isn't right to discount the work of all of those scientists and entrepreneurs when what they are accomplishing scientifically is actually quite amazing. To say that there is "nothing beneficial, I repeat, nothing beneficial about GMO seeds" is not being honest. You do have a good reason to worry about underhanded deals and favors that could be going on with the federal government and the regulators, especially when the party that brags about being "green" is passing stimulus bills.
I appreciate your comments on this subject. It is nice to read
opposing views on DP that don't try to belittle the other members. I think that it is really too early to say just what effect the GM products will have on our long term health. Maybe we are all supposed to "evolve" together- people, plants and animals.
~Your perception becomes your reality~
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that is the good thing about
that is the good thing about the daily paul, we are probably in agreement about certain key issues such as limiting the power of federal regulators and limiting the ability of corporations to ask for favors, so our disagreements are actually quite minor compared to the main principles with which we agree. I don't think Dr. Paul wants to create an army of political clones, so it helps to have people who have different perspectives on various issues as long as your solutions are constitutionally-sound.
OK, you seem honest enough
Given your general stance what do you think of Monsanto's practice of having their plants cross pollinating other farmers' produce then suing said farmer for "patent infringement" when the plants that now grow on his farm are Monsanto "patented" crops?
This is one basic part of genetic modification that can, and is, being used for evil.
Needless to say, there are other ways, but this is just one prime example of the unscrupulous nature of this firm.
While many scientists may be good, honest people, that does NOT mean that all uses of GM foods will be used for good. Yes, I guess they certainly could be used for good, but they could DEFINITELY be used for evil and that is the bigger issue at hand.
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That is completely
That is completely outrageous, and the team of lawyers is probably the worst thing that comes out of having huge corporations. If a private farmer refuses to use GM crops then he of course should be able to plant whatever he wants, and in a well-run society, he should be able to sue monsanto for violating his property rights.
I mean, this is basically the same thing as monsanto throwing a brick through somebody's window and then suing the guy for stealing their brick. I have noticed that one of the hardest arguments Ron Paul runs into with massive-regulation types is when they say that property rights aren't enough to help poor farmers fight big corporations that have huge teams of lawyers. They usually use this argument when talking about pollution, but not controlling your pollen is basically another type of pollution. I don't have an immediate answer on how to deal with people that monsanto is suing, but that is an obvious case of fraud and corporate favoritism.
The important thing is to remember why giants like monsanto exist. If federal regulations did not cost small businesses so many millions of dollars to introduce a product, then the responsible scientists and their friends could actually run small businesses that are easier to crack down on if they are committing fraud. But it is so hard to earn enough money to even start producing that most of the time, they have to end up selling their patent or selling their startup company to a corporate giant. This wouldn't happen on such a wide scale if you either:
1) had an FDA that was run by people that actually know what they're doing
or
2) didn't have an FDA
I don't know which of the above choices would be the better solution, but I am starting to think that #1 might never happen.
I am suspicious that some of the posters on this thread are
being paid by Monsanto!
Here is link to a good article about Monsanto. You can put it in your subject post if you want to, Legalize.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-and-Hillary-Clint-...
good article Thank you for this link
the thing is that Michael wants to have control over what goes on the front page here and I don't want to make a mistake adding something he might not fully agree with...so if he wants it added great but I will stay on the sidelines on this.
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The Congressional war against small business continues. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (H.R. 875) will create a new food safety bureaucracy, and require a "traceability" program for "food production facilities and food establishments."
These new regulations will drive many small farms and restaurants out of business. Big Business can afford the compliance costs and will benefit from the reduced competition as smaller firms go bankrupt. Consumers will face fewer choices and higher prices, but will we really get safer food in return, and will it really be worth the cost?
Congress would have to know a lot of things that probably can't be known in order to evaluate this question, but they're charging ahead anyway, re-engineering society on the backs of small business owners.
Part of the bill's intent is to absorb already-existing food-tracking programs. Section 210 (d)(4) says the new food-tracking system must be "consistent with existing statutes and regulations that require record-keeping or labeling for identifying the origin or history of food or food animals," including "the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) as authorized by the Animal Health Protection Act of 2002 (AHPA)."
The contention that NAIS was authorized by the AHPA is wrong. NAIS implementation has never been authorized by any Congressional legislation. It's a bureaucratic initiative.
This false assumption gives NAIS the aura of Congressional approval. Instead . . .
This is another step on the road to converting NAIS from a "voluntary" program to a mandatory one. This is exactly what we predicted three years ago when we launched our anti-NAIS campaign.
H.R. 875 is a de facto "authorization" of NAIS. It makes the penalties laid out in the AHPA applicable to participants of NAIS. It also presumes that NAIS can be "required," or made mandatory for all owners of livestock and poultry -- even exotic pets.
Up until now Congress has largely ignored NAIS, but Rep. David Obey, who introduced the Omnibus Appropriations Act, included $14.5 million for additional NAIS funding and has specifically expressed his intent that the money will be used to implement NAIS aggressively according to the USDA's September 2008 Business Plan (written by bureaucrats as well).
This plan includes:
Forcing cattle owners to use NAIS "840" RFID (radio frequency identification) tags when they participate in vaccination programs
Increasing compliance in the sheep and goat industries through new regulations and "increased emphasis on enforcement."
Requiring premise registration for horse owners who must submit their horses for EIA testing
98% compliance by July 2009 for poultry and swine
90% compliance by July 2009 for horses, sheep, and goats
60% compliance by Oct 2010 for cattle
These figures reflect the USDA's goal of near-total control of every aspect of the livestock industry.
Such control isn't possible without aggressive, heavy-handed means. There's already enough opposition to NAIS to make those targets impossible. That means farmers that don't comply will be run out of business.
Many who do comply will lose their businesses because of the compliance cost.
This issue is important right now because a hearing is scheduled on H.R. 875 on Wednesday, March 11. Please check the list in the P.S. to see if your Represenative serves on the committee, and if they do, please call them.
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Thank you for posting this info
time for mass activist action.
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peace patriots*)
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"How can we justify to the unemployed and underemployed in the United States the incredible cost of maintaining a global empire?" - Dr. Ron Paul
When the wind blows,
affirmation: President Paul
Monsanto's GMO seeds spread and contaminate organic crops. Monsanto is a huge problem for all of us; organic farming could become entirely obsolete in years to come. Bill Gates is one of many people funding Monsanto.
Read about Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian canola farmer, a seed saver for 50 years and a true patriot. His seeds were contaminated by Monsanto and then MONSANTO sued him for stealing their seeds!!
Call your congressmen, so no to Monsanto and help the organic farmers,,thanks:)
affirmation: President Paul 2008
Some of these responses
Some of these responses sound like paranoia and hysteria just for the sake of paranoia and hysteria. The scientists that are designing these GM crops put a tremendous amount of effort into making sure that they are actually beneficial. We definitely should have free farming and less FDA involvement, and all farmers should be able to choose whether or not to use GM crops. Over the last 20 years, worldwide we are able to produce about 2x as much food using the same land mass due to all of the advancements in the field of genetics.
If you think that the "organic" vegetables you are planting in your own garden haven't been genetically modified, I would recommend you go try to eat some tomatoes from 4,000 BC and tell me how nutritional they are. Things you eat every day like wheat didn't even exist until 6,000 years ago, and only exist because of genetic modification. You should never see the GM label and then automatically think that it is evil. All natural sources of food have had tremendous genetic modification since humans have walked on this planet, the only thing we are doing now is deliberately speeding up the process.
I would agree that any efforts to make national farm laws are a horrible idea and going to be counterproductive. The people in the federal government never seem to know anything about making proper scientific decisions no matter who is in charge. The FDA makes the research and discovery process so much slower and more expensive, and then the regulation doesn't even keep bad products out, but everyone in the country feels secure because they are tricked into thinking the FDA is actually doing something useful.
2x as much food?
But is this really going to countries in desperate need or is it a way of increasing profits for someone? I wasn't aware that we had a food shortage in the west prior to the introduction of this stuff.
Btw I read some scientific papers about GM some years ago. I was really impressed - till I read the bottom line. The writers actually admitted that they were unsure how safe GM is. I can't imagine that emergent behaviour has been thoroughly investigated in this short time.
It is important to look at
It is important to look at how the world has changed in the past 50 years. In 1960, the population of the world was less than half of what it is now and caloric intake has increased by approximately 75% per person. However, the amount of land use for farming has increased only around 3%. We can feed many more people much larger portions than we used to because of advances in genetics. I don't know how much food actually gets exported to needy countries. There may not have been a food shortage in the United States in 1960, but there were 180 million people back then. Try feeding 301 million people with the same amount of land without genetically enhancing your crops, it can't be done.
In a scientific paper, the writers have to be intellectually honest, so if there are deficiencies in their understanding, they want other people to know. This is such a hot area of research that thousands of professionals are looking at these papers and scrutinizing the shortcomings of each invention, so you would be surprised how fast the science can improve in less than a year.
It is not all just hysteria
Though to read some of the replies you might think so. There are several issues with GMO's that are very important.
The first has to do with the interference of GMO plants with other plants. Typically, Tomato fields are sprayed with herbicides that specifically target grasses. GMO tomatoes are designed to secrete that herbicide. If they are planted in the vicinity of a corn field, they can kill the corn, or other plants. GMO plants that secrete Insecticides may kill helpful incects, like Bees in greater numbers than sprays. There is also some question about the impact on Farm workers, or farm waste. While GMO's greatly reduce the amount of pesticide/herbicide type chemicals that are used, they change the way we encounter the chemicals, and so there may be some unintended consequences. They may also cross polinate with other plants, with unknown results. Finally, there may be a small number of the population that would have allergies - like peanut allergies.
The other big issue is economic - Who owns the DNA code of a plant ? If you use the same patent laws as are used for Drugs, you might have a situation where one company owns the code for all the available Tomato seeds in the world, and growing a crop for seed or doing your own Hybridizing would be like looked at like Pirating DVDs.
Reducing the genetic diversity of a species is generally a bad thing.
Pro404,
affirmation: President Paul
You are just plain wrong on this one. Read about the farmers in India who are committing suicide because of GMO seeds. Read about Percy Schmeiser, read about Bove from France who has spent years fighting the big giant and has landed in jail.
There is nothing beneficial, I repeat, nothing beneficial about GMO seeds and Monsanto.
affirmation: President Paul 2008
you make my brain hurt
You are confusing hybridization with genetic manipulation.
Big friggin' difference.
Have you a tomatoe from 4000 BC? A 6000 year old seed even?
If you do, I will gladly grow them and get back to you on this.
Are you getting paid to post this? If so it is a serious waste of money.
hybridization IS a form of genetic manipulation.
That's his point. There is no way to get the hybrids without man's intervention.
I know that is his point
He's DEAD wrong.
Cross pollination is natural, genetic manipulation is not.
You can cross breed a schnauser with a shit-szu, but you can't cross a human with one without nefarious intervention at the cellular level.
Simply stop buying their poison
I know it isn't that simple, but I found this list very helpful.
Was shocked at how many items on it I have been consuming.
YIKES!
http://www.republicmagazine.com/gmo/
GMO = Guaranteed Malnourished Offspring