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- growvideos, on 11/10/2009, -6/+36Monsanto sucks!
- yocouchdigga, on 11/10/2009, -2/+28Monsanto is straight up evil. They're right up there with Blackwater/Xe, as some of the most evil bastards on the planet. I'm all for science and creating food, etc but we have to do it responsibly, Monsanto has shown time and time again, that they don't play that way. They should be dismantled, for irresponsibility.
On a side note, it's ludicrous to think that we would give a blood-sucking CORPORATION like this so much power, especially over something as important as our food... we need to straighten up our act or we're not going to last much longer. - Asheis, on 11/10/2009, -3/+28Monsanto is a horrible and aggressive company. There's no real way without spinning the truth to paint them in a positive light.
- Rockyn, on 11/10/2009, -1/+22***** you Monsanto!! You scumbag pricks!!!!!
- realeskimopimp, on 11/10/2009, -2/+20***** RIAA
***** COMCAST
***** NEWSCORP
***** MONSANTO!!!! - Hetman, on 11/10/2009, -1/+19The problem is not GM food. It is copyright laws. They need to be changed so that companies like monsanto cannot monopolize the food industry. It seems like it would be a simple problem to fix. Unfortunatly it never is.
- prakash1234, on 11/11/2009, -1/+18Everyone should read IRAQ cpa order 81, the govt basically wrote a rule saying, iraq farmers cant cultivate using their own seeds and have to buy monsanto seeds and thus indebted for life, another evil company from USA
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12547 - Infowarsdotcom, on 11/11/2009, -1/+16***** Monsanto
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6262083407 ... - prakash1234, on 11/11/2009, -1/+15Indian seed movement fights monsanto
http://www.navdanya.org/ - KMAR66, on 11/10/2009, -3/+15This company makes BlackWater look like the Red Cross. I grew up in St.Louis, MO and they destroyed the creek/stream that ran behind my house and turned into a flow of rank ass stankin' runoff from their plant that killed all the aquatic life. If I lived in South Park I'd say " DAY TUK MI FROGS".
- MWeather, on 11/11/2009, -1/+10Poor people can't afford to buy a new batch of genetically modified seed every time they plant. They rely on heirloom seeds from previous harvests and hope they don't get cross-pollinated and sued into oblivion by Monsanto.
- esteskid, on 11/10/2009, -5/+14This is by far one of the best articles I've ever read on global hunger. Thank you Reuters, that's about as unbiased an article as you can get these days.
- Hetman, on 11/10/2009, -0/+9Funny enough all those problems are because of our out dated copy right laws. There really needs to be reform there.
- prakash1234, on 11/11/2009, -1/+9in india subsistence farmers suicided in hundreds,because they cannot pay back the loans of purchasing GM seeds so hunger works against GM foods.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article- ... - BeatPunchbeef, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7@ dirTdogE: Word
EVERYONE needs to watch Future of Food. I'm not exaggerating. Watch it now, or tonight when you get home. Its amazing how ***** up these companies are and how close they are to seriously cockpunching worldwide agriculture. - monkiboi, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7Article on one page: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTR ...
- capheine, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6Do Americans (and lots of Europeans) seriously consume more than 3400 CALORIES A DAY?!
Yeesh. That's... insane. - Thistlejack, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5I agree, except isn't it patents thats the problem?
There's got to be a way to have public funds invested in the same types of research Monsanto does, then to license the technology to whoever wants to produce and distribute the seeds. The concept of glyphosate-resistent crops is not particularly novel, and yet Monsanto was the first to discover the technology. As a result, they get a 17 year monopoly on a product that is key to agriculture. There's no question the technology is valuable- most US farmers grow "RoundUp Resistant" (glyphosate) crops, its just a question of whether one company/individual/whatever should have control while at the same time not restricting private sector research. - rmkrmkrmk, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5You should know Monsanto is in bed with Fox News. There's an excellent documentary called "The Corporation," which has a segment here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw) that shows how Fox News fired two of its own reporters when they wanted (and later insisted) on doing an expose on how Monsanto was giving people cancer through its milk hormones. Fox News successfully fired the reporters even when they tried to hide behind a whistle-blower law.
- dirTdogE, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
- Hetman, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5Corporations in themselfs are not evil. However monopolies are. That is what monosanto is doing. I swear a lot of people cannot tell the difference between capitlism and corpatism. It is ***** sad.
- BinkyStuttocks, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5Monsanto would sue their own grandmothers
- Hetman, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4We do not have an obesity epidemic because we are eating light.
- yocouchdigga, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3Idiots like you are the biggest enablers of this crap.
Shouldn't you be watching TV somewhere, dullard? - realeskimopimp, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3We do not have an obesity epidemic because we drink diet cokes.
- ericthesalmon, on 11/11/2009, -1/+4Monsanto didn't invent any of those things, although it has produced all of them in large quantities.
Aspartame doesn't cause cancer, it's only harmful to phenylketonurics.
Monstanto was indeed complicit in the production and use of PCBs and Agent Orange long after they harm they caused was clear. They're basically a villain from Captain Planet. - ebfalls, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3We must tell our elected officials that we are aware of what is happening and vote accordingly. The corporations control this entire country by donating to political campaigns. The politicians are more than happy to look the other way while they rape us.
- Bodhinature, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3pssst, Monsanto also created Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant that causes birth defects that the US government won't allow Vietnamese to sue about.
- iancgi, on 11/11/2009, -2/+5pssst, I have a secret...
Monsanto is the company that invented the PCBs that pollute our waters now.
Also monsanto invented the cancer causing chemical, aspartame and helped get is approved by the FDA with a little help from someone by the name of Donald Rumsfield. Maybe you know him? - BeatPunchbeef, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2You forgot ConAgra, MonsterCable, McDonalds, MPAA, WalMart and, well...
I'll toss AIG in there too for good measure. - Bodhinature, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2If Monsanto did not have huge public subsidies I think we would see how competitive they would actually be in the global market. I don't agree with them using my tax dollars to force me to have no other choice than to eat their GM foods.
- Bodhinature, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2The problem is, among other things, corporations have more power than people, and they don't ever die. I'm incorporating myself so I can have more rights and never die.
- Thistlejack, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2This gets to the core of a constant debate regarding corporate ethics (ha ha, I know). If the law is on their side (and it is), is it their ethical responsibility to act in the common good or is it their ethical responsibility to maximize profits for their shareholders?
Ideally, we would hope legislators would create a legal environment where corporations could act ethically AND maximize profit, but that is seldom the case. Hence the debate about whether the fault lies with the legislators and the people for creating a bad system, or with firms for taking advantage of the system. The situation is even more complex when firms lobby legislators to change the system for their benefit.
The biggest challenge in the real world is to think about the individual executives who are responsible for making decisions. Let's say I'm completely ethical and attempt to implement an ethical scheme. Some other executive will come along and promise to increase profits at the expense of ethics. Shareholders rarely care, and thus I get replaced and everyone around me sees what ethical behavior results in. - sanriver12, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2Monsanto want to feed the world? give me a break, that's one of the most evil companies in the whole wide world. I think Dr evil and minime were interns there.
- s73v3r, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2Its not even a monopoly problem; its the fact that they're so aggressive with their patents. If you plant their crops, you can't harvest the seeds to reuse the next year; and if you don't plant their seed, but happen to live close to someone who does, they'll be on your ass about cross pollination of your seeds.
- eliseville, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1They start with a patented seedstock, add patented RoundUp and more and more. . ., Lobby enough politicians so the FDA refuses to test anything, lobby more and more subsidies.
Monsanto would not exist if politicians answered to the electorate and not the lobbies.
Monsanto would not exist if patents were reasonably limited.
The very few safety studies that have been done by outside scientists have shown terrible problems but Monsanto's U.S. and British power destroys the ability of the tests to be published. - fragomatik, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Exactly. Shareholders bear at least some responsibility for encouraging the ruthless pursuit of ever-increasing profit, at the expense of ethical and humanitarian concerns. Ideally, shareholders would be more ethical and critical in assessing how and where their investment dollars are being used, and should investing accordingly. It may take a while to catch on... :(
- Rockyn, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1I do not have obesity problem.
- s73v3r, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Neither do I. I'm a chubby chaser.
- bboyjkang, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1There's a great program that just aired on PBS:
"The Botany of Desire"
It's narrated by Michael Pollan, and it's based off his book
http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/
The program mentioned how Monsato put the Bacillus thuringiensis gene into a potato to deal with the Colorado potato beetle, which consumes the potato crop
"The Russet Burbank potato is the American equivalent of the lumper, producing long spuds that can be sliced by food processors into the perfect french fry.
Every year, potato farmers in the United States spend millions to ensure that their crop can resist the natural pests, bacteria and viruses that plague it.
And in the late 1990s, they added a new weapon to that arsenal, in the form of the NewLeaf potato, which had been engineered by scientists in Monsanto's labs to contain genes from a tiny bacterium that enabled it to make a toxin that kills one of its most dangerous insect predators.
The introduction into American agriculture of genetically modified plants such as Monsanto's NewLeaf potato has radically altered the age-old relationship between plant and person, eradicating the boundary that had existed in nature.
The NewLeaf represented a dramatic shift in our ability to meld and reshape plants according to our desires, allowing us to create new genetic combinations that would never occur in nature.
The NewLeaf potato ultimately failed, largely due to the public outcry against genetically engineered foods
Still, the experiment raised important questions that continue to confront us today.
Will the farms of the future continue to grow monocultures, which can be protected against pests and diseases only by large amounts of pesticides or through genetic modification of the crops?
Or can we grow large amounts of food the way the Incas grew potatoes, by preserving the crop's diversity and spreading out the risk of a failed harvest?"
http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/potato-contro ...
I think the idea of engineering our food to become whatever we want it to be is extremely cool
I don't know much about Monsato
If they are an evil monopoly, we should absolutely be regulating the ***** out of them
However, I think GM foods are being cast away without a proper discussion - Bodhinature, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1So, then the problem isn't that we meed GM foods to feed all the starving peoples. Its that certain countries eat a greater portion of world wide produce. This is much like how a the British Empire starved the peoples of India when they would ship grain to Western markets to price fix (even when there was a surplus) or why there was an Irish potato famine. Starvation exists, partially, because countries and corporations monopolize produce.
- eliseville, on 11/12/2009, -1/+1This would be about as unbiased as Fox 'News' typically spews out.
I usually find Reuters articles to be of the highest caliber, but with the control Monsanto has of the British government, I fear Reuters' journalist Claudia Parsons does not have a balanced judgement, but is feeding her opinions through this article. Reuters journalists are not typically this biased.
Ms. Parsons found many sources to support her point of view, but only belittled those who disagree with her, just as Fox might do. No sources were provided to support those who disagree with her. - iancgi, on 11/11/2009, -1/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5slnNB8h0
- s73v3r, on 11/11/2009, -5/+2Most people here don't have a problem with GM food. It allows us to grow more food on less land, which is a good thing. What everyone has is the way Monsanto treats farmers, especially ones that choose not to plant their seeds but has the misfortune of living next to someone who does.
- FritoPendejo, on 11/10/2009, -8/+2RAWWW. CORPORATIONs evil bla bla end of the world! The man! CORPORATION! RARRR run! We're all going to die!
- brad3378, on 11/11/2009, -11/+4......said that guy that doesn't live in a country with a hunger epidemic. As the article suggests, if you were hungry 24/7 you would probably be thankful for GM food. Fortunately, we live in a country where we take our abundance of food for granted.
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