Monsanto Seed Company.

[AUownsU]

Anyone ever here of these guys? They seem to be some evil motherfuckers. I know the norm today is to bitch about the government but people need to ralize that the government is nothing but a puppet for the evil fuckers like this pulling the strings. Some tend to believe their products may also be one of the main culprits behind the Bee Colony Collapse and yet here they are buying up resarch groups on the very matter (http://www.naturalnews.com/035688_Monsanto_honey_bees_colony_collapse.html).

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/10/1832621/monsanto-protection-act-power/?mobile=nc#

Liberals and Tea Party members alike are up in arms over the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” a provision snuck into the emergency budget bill that essentially exempts biotech firms like Monsanto Company from judicial review. Now that President Obama has signed the law, Monsanto may plant genetically modified seeds even if a court of law orders them to stop. While this is blatantly unethical, and possibly unenforceable, the newfound public outrage over the Monsanto Protection Act ignores the fact that Monsanto has already been above the law for decades.
 
The Monsanto Protection Act is merely a drop in the bucket of government-embedded protections the agricultural giant already enjoys. The company has spent decades packing the US Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency with its own members. A new Food and Water Watch report maps out the many ways the company stacks the regulatory deck in their favor:
 

Monsanto’s board members have worked for the EPA, advised the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and served on President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. They presided over multiple universities in various senior positions, including South Dakota State University (with whom Monsanto has a significant research agreement), Arizona State’s Biodesign Institute and Washington University in St. Louis [...] The prevalence of Monsanto’s directors in these highly influential positions begs a closer look at how they’re able to push the pro-GE agenda within the government and influence public opinion.
 
An extended list of policymakers with Monsanto histories is available here.
 
Monsanto insists that its revolving door is in overdrive because Monsanto employees are simply the best qualified for positions in these agencies, who certainly don’t hold onto their loyalty to the company in their new roles.

Yet it’s hard to ignore how Monsanto has benefited from these connections. The USDA has never denied a single application for Monsanto’s genetically engineered crops. USDA chief Tom Vilsack briefly considered limiting Monsanto’s alfalfa planting to protect organic crops from contamination, but deregulated it entirely instead. In another win for the company, their controversial growth hormone for cows was approved under Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lobbyist-turned-USDA-administrator-turned-FDA Deputy Commissioner, even though it was banned in the European Union, Japan, Australia, and Canada over health concerns. The hormone was approved in the US after Monsanto employee Margaret Miller oversaw a report on its safety, took a job at the FDA, and promptly approved her own report. Another Monsanto lobbyist, Islam Siddiqui, later wrote the USDA’s organic food standards, allowing irradiated and genetically modified foods to label themselves as organic. And Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a Monsanto lawyer, will help decide a challenge to Monsanto’s GMO patents this year.
 


The controversy behind the Monsanto Protection Act is a case study in Monsanto’s cozy relationship with regulators. In 2010, a federal judge chided the USDA for violating environmental law by rushing through approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered Round Up Ready sugar beets. The judge ordered a halt on all planting of the beets until an environmental study was completed. Ignoring the court, the USDA deregulated the beets anyway, claiming that the delay would result in a sugar shortage.
 
That’s because Monsanto controls 95 percent of the sugar beet market, making it virtually impossible for farmers to find alternatives. Industry consolidation among a handful of corporations has driven up seed prices and stifled innovation by smaller firms. It’s no wonder, then, that a massive beet shortage would have occurred if Monsanto’s beets had been delayed for a couple years of environmental review. With the help of complacent federal regulators, Monsanto is the only game in town.
 
Despite having the full force of the government behind them, Monsanto’s products aren’t working. Their herbicide-resistant genes, the major selling point for their sugar beets, corn, soybean, and alfalfa crops, is actually breeding “superweeds” and possibly “superworms” that have evolved to overpower the chemicals. When these GM crops were first introduced, Monsanto argued that the gene would let farmers cut down on the use of toxic pesticides and herbicides on their crops. As it turns out, farmers have started applying even heavier doses of the chemicals to combat these new strains of pests. Though their products aren’t working, Monsanto has reaped abundant benefits from its own failure. Last week, the company announced huge profits largely due to a 37 percent increase in herbicide sales.

A farmer not to far from where I was raised actually wrote a book on Monsanto..

http://pitnbookstore.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=product&id=23&parent=3

[bottomfeeder]

I agree with your stance on this issue. Nestle is trying to patent human breast milk.

[DnATL]

That’s because Monsanto controls 95 percent of the sugar beet market

Well I stomped on his potaters, shit on his tomaters, and pissed all over his fuckin sugar beets....

[bottomfeeder]

ADM and Monsanto alone caused the influx of illegal aliens into this country after NAFTA was signed by Billary.

[GH2001]

Yep they are indeed evil. Moreso than any of the Oil companies out there. And if only they just made seeds. Their biggest evil to me is the chemicals they make. Remember agent Orange?? Them.

[bottomfeeder]

Haliburton/KBR is not innocent either. I can't think of one single fucking corporation I like other than Chevron.

[Vandy Vol]

Evil incarnate.

The Supreme Court determined that genetically modified seeds could be patented.  It set a precedent for allowing a living organism to effectively be patented.

Monsanto has developed a variety of genetically modified seeds (mostly soy, corn, cotton, and canola), and then charge a pretty hefty price for these seeds.  Not all farmers use these seeds.  But many of these farmers who do not use those seeds have fields which are close to farmers who do use these seeds.  This is especially the case when you consider that there are only about 13,000 organic farmers out of a total 2 million in the U.S.

The result is that cross-pollination occurs, and suddenly the farmer who didn't have genetically modified plants now has genetically modified plants.

So what does Monsanto do?  They sue those farmers for using their patented seeds without paying for them.

And they won.

Fuckers.

[bottomfeeder]

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2013/05/04/Trader-Joes-hit-on-antibiotics-in-meat-lead-in-candy/UPI-36411367684399/?spt=hs&or=bn

[Pell City Tiger]

Yep they are indeed evil. Moreso than any of the Oil companies out there. And if only they just made seeds. Their biggest evil to me is the chemicals they make. Remember agent Orange?? Them.

Monsanto sure did a number on Chocolocco Creek over in Talladega county, and wound up having to pay a lot of families who lived along the creek a lot of money. The area along the creek is uninhabitable due to mercury poisoning.

[djsimp]

Haliburton/KBR is not innocent either. I can't think of one single fucking corporation I like other than Chevron.

This tells me you are more bark than bite. Proof that you know only what the media allows you to know.

[bottomfeeder]

This tells me you are more bark than bite. Proof that you know only what the media allows you to know.

KBR (the old Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Haliburton) has blood on it's hands too. In the form of moving cocaine from SA to the US, via the many warehouses they have built down there. Not to mention all of the no bid contracts they have be awarded. Just another log on the fire of fascism. I have worked for them before.

[Pell City Tiger]

KBR (the old Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Haliburton) has blood on it's hands too. In the form of moving cocaine from SA to the US, via the many warehouses they have built down there. Not to mention all of the no bid contracts they have be awarded. Just another log on the fire of fascism. I have worked for them before.

Be that as it may, they built us some damn fine accommodations when I was in Kosovo.

We would have froze to death without them. Winters there were no joke - Valley Forge kind of cold.

[djsimp]

I can yell you right now with all the coorporate red tape and armies of lawyers that Halliburton deals with just to write a PO tells me that bottomfeeders assertion is a bit skewed.

[bottomfeeder]

I can yell you right now with all the coorporate red tape and armies of lawyers that Halliburton deals with just to write a PO tells me that bottomfeeders assertion is a bit skewed.

Contracts and purchase orders are two different things. I have had my experiences with GSA and such (DOE, DoD, etc), so I'm familiar with the red tape. All of my experience with KBR was private sector (utilities, power generation and chemical plants).

[djsimp]

Contracts and purchase orders are two different things. I have had my experiences with GSA and such, so I'm familiar with the red tape. All of my experience with KBR was private sector (utilities, power generation and chemical plants).

You missed the point but whatever, you can continue to fuel your conspiracies.

[bottomfeeder]

Whateva. How about designer brides?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-43767/Worlds-GM-babies-born.html#ixzz2ST1EwRVC

[AUTiger1]

Anyone ever here of these guys? They seem to be some evil motherfuckers. I know the norm today is to bitch about the government but people need to ralize that the government is nothing but a puppet for the evil fuckers like this pulling the strings. Some tend to believe their products may also be one of the main culprits behind the Bee Colony Collapse and yet here they are buying up resarch groups on the very matter (http://www.naturalnews.com/035688_Monsanto_honey_bees_colony_collapse.html).

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/10/1832621/monsanto-protection-act-power/?mobile=nc#

A farmer not to far from where I was raised actually wrote a book on Monsanto..

http://pitnbookstore.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=product&id=23&parent=3

Evil incarnate.

The Supreme Court determined that genetically modified seeds could be patented.  It set a precedent for allowing a living organism to effectively be patented.

Monsanto has developed a variety of genetically modified seeds (mostly soy, corn, cotton, and canola), and then charge a pretty hefty price for these seeds.  Not all farmers use these seeds.  But many of these farmers who do not use those seeds have fields which are close to farmers who do use these seeds.  This is especially the case when you consider that there are only about 13,000 organic farmers out of a total 2 million in the U.S.

The result is that cross-pollination occurs, and suddenly the farmer who didn't have genetically modified plants now has genetically modified plants.

So what does Monsanto do?  They sue those farmers for using their patented seeds without paying for them.

And they won.

Fuckers.

Does anyone remember the Same Sex Marriage issue that was hot and heavy in the last week of March?  You know, every news outlet including Fox was reporting about it and that was all that was being covered.  Yeah, that was when they slipped the Monsanto Protection Act in the Ag Appropriations Bill.  It was awesome b/c no one I talked to knew anything about it and weren't really all that outraged.

[bottomfeeder]

Does anyone remember the Same Sex Marriage issue that was hot and heavy in the last week of March?  You know, every news outlet including Fox was reporting about it and that was all that was being covered.  Yeah, that was when they slipped the Monsanto Protection Act in the Ag Appropriations Bill.  It was awesome b/c no one I talked to knew anything about it and weren't really all that outraged.

Don't forget the bombing in Boston, too.

[Godfather]

I called Mr. Beeks, he told me to buy.

[Snaggletiger]

I called Mr. Beeks, he told me to buy.

Feeling good, Mortimer