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"The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PLEASE PASS VIDEO AROUND
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5/25/2008 3:18 PM
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[link to www.greenpeace.org]
"The world according to Monsanto"
"The world according to Monsanto"...
Monsanto is siccing their lawyers on every web page that has shown this movie. YouTube has already yanked it under threat of lawsuit. This link may be one of the last places you can see this movie before it is banned.
THE LINK IS HERE:
[link to www.greenpeace.org] |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 3:20 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
International — A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the credibility of US based Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and the provider of the seed technology for 90 percent of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops.
The French documentary, called “The world according to Monsanto” and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.
The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the “revolving door”. One example is Michael Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to Monsanto, becoming the company’s vice president for public policy.
Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market.
Monsanto’s long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence.
Monsanto's background
Monsanto was founded in 1901 as a chemical company. Its history is intimately linked to the production and promotion of highly toxic chemicals such as Agent Orange (used as a chemical weapon in the Vietnam war) and PCBs (widespread toxic pollutants). Robin’s movie reveals that Monsanto already knew about the “systematic toxic effects” of PCBs for decades, but instructed its salespeople to stay silent because, “we can’t afford to lose one dollar.”
More recently Monsanto received a bad reputation for the promotion of growth hormones from GE organisms known as rBGH, which the company sells in the US under the brand name Posilac. Monsanto claims that Posilac holds, “benefits to consumers”. The reality is that, rBGH growth hormones were banned in Europe and Canada after the authorities found out about the health risks resulting from drinking milk from cows treated with rBGH hormones. Monsanto's way of "addressing" this problem was to sue the Oakhurst dairy company in the state of Maine (US) - attempting to force them, and other dairies, to stop labelling diary products “rBGH-free” and “rBST-free”.
Global reach, control
Over the last decade, Monsanto aggressively bought up over 50 seed companies around the globe. Seeds are the source of all food. Whoever owns the seeds, owns the food. The process of genetic engineering allows companies, such as Monsanto, to claim patent rights over seeds. Ninety percent of all GE seeds planted in the world are patented by Monsanto and hence controlled by them.
Patents on seeds give companies like Monsanto unprecedented power. Monsanto prohibits farmers saving patented GE seeds from one crop to replant the next season, an age-old practice. To ensure that farmers do not reuse seeds, Monsanto created its own 'gene police', and encourages farmers to turn in their neighbors.
Even farmers that do not use GE seeds are not safe. According to an investigative report by the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) farmers have even been sued for patent infringement after their field was contaminated by pollen or seed from someone else’s GE crop.
But Monsanto’s influence doesn't stop at the US border. “The world according to Monsanto”, documents the devastating impact of Monsanto's malpractices around the world. Among others, it includes the real-life stories of cotton farmers in India that ended up in hopeless debts after using Monsanto genetically engineered (so called Bt) cotton, and of a family in Paraguay, South America whose dreams have turned to nightmares after their farm became surrounded by fields planted with Monsanto’s GE soya.
A much needed expose
Monsanto wouldn’t address these issues on camera for Robin, instead referring to the "Monsanto Pledge" posted on their website (which we debunk here).
After seeing “The world according to Monsanto”, Greenpeace International campaigner Geert Ritsema said:
“Mrs. Robin should be congratulated for revealing the sinister practices of the world’s leading producer of genetically engineered seeds. Her film is alarming and should be a call to action for everybody who cares about the quality of our food and a healthy future for our planet.”
The movie will be shown for the first time on ARTE TV (in German and French) on Tuesday 11 March at 21.00. You can order a DVD of it (in English, French and Spanish) here. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 439573 (OP)
5/25/2008 3:21 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
I BEG YOU,
FOR YOUR SAKE AND YOUR FAMILY, PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION AROUND.
AND KEEP ON BUMPING/ |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 3:24 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
MONSANTO====ILLUMINATI!!!
ILLUMINATI===PLAN TO LOWER THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD BY FEEDING US FRAKEN-FOODS (genetically modified). |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 3:26 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
Time for vigilante ACTION against Monsanto and its owners?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????? |
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Claycat
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5/25/2008 3:26 PM
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I have seen this movie. It is excellent! The thing is, unless we are willing to do what the women in Brazil did, and destroy their company and their plants down to the last plant, we have no power. They are truly the Beast!
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." William Shakespeare |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 3:29 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 3:31 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
I have seen this movie. It is excellent! The thing is, unless we are willing to do what the women in Brazil did, and destroy their company and their plants down to the last plant, we have no power. They are truly the Beast! Quoting: Claycat
FOR YOUR SURVIVAL , MINE, AND THE WORLD, WE HAVE TO DO IT.
ONCE WE KILL THIS BEAST, THE WORLD WOULD BE SAFER.
GET ORGANIZED, AND START THE ASSAULT ON THEM, NOW!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 6:45 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
bump for your life. |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 6:49 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
Important movie.
Must see! |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 6:53 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
I hope many more view the movie b4 it is gone-the janitors are sterilizing everything-kind of like the movie Dark City...
wake up Monsanto is more responsible for the famines and food shortages that are coming due to their Terminator ssssseeeeds, and their Frankenfoods...dupont, bayer, syngenta, US pioneer and a few others are moving their agenda along
Even in countries where the GMO/GE crap is outlawed in most of Europe and most of South America...and amazingly their fields get contaminated with the sterile(dead) seed
We have blighted wheat crops with fungus...hmmmm
we have all pollinators suffering from fungus
Bees, butterflies, bats,...etc
then other conditions and bizarre anomalies with animals
Stop the monsanto hydra by not supporting them
refuse to buy roundup
say no to GMO/GE seeds
support heirloom seeds as only a few companies CONTROL 98% of the worlds food supply-this is dangerous
wake up and starve the beast preparing for the blight they have unleashed onto us all for profit and CONTROL |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/25/2008 7:28 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
BUMP |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/26/2008 2:38 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
Field studies find lower productivity with GM seeds
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study - carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt - has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.
[link to axisoflogic.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/26/2008 2:39 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
Field studies find lower productivity with GM seeds
By PORKER
May 25, 2008, 11:04
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(The Independent, UK) – Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.
Professor Barney Gordon, of the university's department of agronomy, said he started the research – reported in the journal Better Crops – because many farmers who had changed over to the GM crop had "noticed that yields are not as high as expected even under optimal conditions". He added: "People were asking the question 'how come I don't get as high a yield as I used to?'"
He grew a Monsanto GM soybean and an almost identical conventional variety in the same field. The modified crop produced only 70 bushels of grain per acre, compared with 77 bushels from the non-GM one.
The GM crop – engineered to resist Monsanto's own weed killer, Roundup – recovered only when he added extra manganese, leading to suggestions that the modification hindered the crop's take-up of the essential element from the soil. Even with the addition it brought the GM soya's yield to equal that of the conventional one, rather than surpassing it.
The new study confirms earlier research at the University of Nebraska, which found that another Monsanto GM soya produced 6 per cent less than its closest conventional relative, and 11 per cent less than the best non-GM soya available.
The Nebraska study suggested that two factors are at work. First, it takes time to modify a plant and, while this is being done, better conventional ones are being developed. This is acknowledged even by the fervently pro-GM US Department of Agriculture, which has admitted that the time lag could lead to a "decrease" in yields.
But the fact that GM crops did worse than their near-identical non-GM counterparts suggest that a second factor is also at work, and that the very process of modification depresses productivity. The new Kansas study both confirms this and suggests how it is happening.
A similar situation seems to have happened with GM cotton in the US, where the total US crop declined even as GM technology took over.
Monsanto said yesterday that it was surprised by the extent of the decline found by the Kansas study, but not by the fact that the yields had dropped. It said that the soya had not been engineered to increase yields, and that it was now developing one that would.
Critics doubt whether the company will achieve this, saying that it requires more complex modification. And Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington – and who was one of the first to predict the current food crisis – said that the physiology of plants was now reaching the limits of the productivity that could be achieved.
A former champion crop grower himself, he drew the comparison with human runners. Since Roger Bannister ran the first four-minute mile more than 50 years ago, the best time has improved only modestly . "Despite all the advances in training, no one contemplates a three-minute mile."
Last week the biggest study of its kind ever conducted – the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development – concluded that GM was not the answer to world hunger.
Professor Bob Watson, the director of the study and chief scientist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when asked if GM could solve world hunger, said: "The simple answer is no."
[link to www.ranchers.net] |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/26/2008 4:49 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/26/2008 10:39 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/27/2008 7:03 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
Eat Fraken foods, good for you. |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/29/2008 12:33 AM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
BUMP |
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Amaruca 
rarely pure, never simple
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5/29/2008 12:39 AM
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Lots of seeders including myself -
[link to thepiratebay.org]
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Anonymous Coward
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5/29/2008 3:39 AM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
I hope many more view the movie b4 it is gone-the janitors are sterilizing everything-kind of like the movie Dark City...
wake up Monsanto is more responsible for the famines and food shortages that are coming due to their Terminator ssssseeeeds, and their Frankenfoods...dupont, bayer, syngenta, US pioneer and a few others are moving their agenda along
Even in countries where the GMO/GE crap is outlawed in most of Europe and most of South America...and amazingly their fields get contaminated with the sterile(dead) seed
We have blighted wheat crops with fungus...hmmmm
we have all pollinators suffering from fungus
Bees, butterflies, bats,...etc
then other conditions and bizarre anomalies with animals
Stop the monsanto hydra by not supporting them
refuse to buy roundup
say no to GMO/GE seeds
support heirloom seeds as only a few companies CONTROL 98% of the worlds food supply-this is dangerous
wake up and starve the beast preparing for the blight they have unleashed onto us all for profit and CONTROL Quoting: Anonymous Coward 287857
clarence thomas of the supreme court use to be an attorney for monsanto-He is the one that tipped the vote on the elections and on the 'equivalency laws' that prevent many other lawsuits being brought against FRANKENFOODS giant monsanto/dupont/syngenta/etc
 for truth |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/29/2008 3:45 AM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
Anybody else have a problem with the company that brought you Dioxin, PCBs,DDTs,Malathion, AGENT ORANGE(de-foliate used extensively in Nam-killing Veterans 'allegedly') bring you pharmaceuticals)PHARMA=SORCERY, Greek origin) and they bring you round up herbicides and pesticides made with Nicotine(serious toxin to pests-also kills pollinators)and GMO/GE FRANKENFOODS that have the round up spliced into the plant...they create TERMINATOR SEEDS...and they provide your GMO/GE FRANKENFOODS...
Hmmmmm and the oil guys work hand in hand w/ them
Pesticides
Poisons
Herbicides
Pharma/Meds
GMO/GE foods that will sterilize all other foods....
interesting
So would you want your food coming from the morgue normally???Or is this standard NWO chit?
they kill pests, they kill plants, they feed people....hmmmm, maybe the blonde is bleeding through... |
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6/4/2008 10:27 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
MONSANTO===== 
MONSANTO === 
MONSANTO ==  |
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6/7/2008 2:55 AM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
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theresident 
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6/7/2008 2:58 AM
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but with the U.S out of grain reserves? |
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Anonymous Coward
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6/7/2008 7:07 PM | | Re: "The world according to Monsanto" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Quote |
:no_gm:
but with the U.S out of grain reserves? Quoting: theresident
If the u.s. is pout of grain reserves, it is contrived.
save up on food, rice and beans will keep you alive, and they are cheap and easy to store. |
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