Monsanto March

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/26/13 at 12:11pm

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/26/13 at 12:15pm

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/26/13 at 1:17pm

This whole thing has me perplexed. How can the FDA not get involved?

How can Monsanto not be held accountable?

....but the world goes 'round

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/26/13 at 1:37pm

Wow, that list doesn't leave much to purchase, does it?

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/26/13 at 3:10pm

I have a new app that helps with all of this. It's called BUYCOTT. It's a fantastic way to know where your money is going. You just enter the causes that you support or don't support, and then when you scan the bar code on an item, it will tell you if it conflicts with your causes.

I am now not buying a lot of products, because so many of these companies are donating millions of dollars to not have GMO products labeled as such.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/26/13 at 3:27pm

>> How can Monsanto not be held accountable?

Because Monsanto has spent a lot of money to ensure that laws were created that protect their interests. There's nothing to be held accountable for.

If there is a farmer's soybean field near a Monsanto field, and the wind blows pollen from the Monsanto field into the neighboring field, which pollinates the farmer's crop, Monsanto can (and most likely WILL) sue the farmer.

Monsanto will claim that the resulting farmer's crop was grown using Monsanto's "intellectual property" (because they have developed and patented their genetically engineered soybean). It does not matter that wind, or bees or any other natural form of pollination occurred in the process. Monsanto will sue the smaller farmer and win.

The farmer cannot sue Monsanto for "contaminating" his crop, however. Monsanto will keep the case in court until the farmer no longer has the monetary means to keep fighting.

Either way, Monsanto will ruin the farmer. They have the money, so they have the control to buy the legal means to do whatever they want - including patenting "life" (literally).

Updated On: 5/26/13 at 03:27 PM

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/26/13 at 3:33pm

Only in America though...

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/29/13 at 11:09pm

If a major corporation like Ben & Jerry's can make the switch to non-GMO's, so can other corporations.

SUPPORT BEN & JERRYS!
Their statement on GMO's here

Monsanto March

Posted: 5/30/13 at 9:04am

>> If a major corporation like Ben & Jerry's can make the switch to non-GMO's, so can other corporations.

Yup.
But no one can force a company, corporation, etc. to be socially or morally conscious. "Can" is an option - not a requirement.

The GMO aspect is only one factor in a bigger picture. I think there's a larger issue of control and total ownership. It's as if Monsanto is playing the game Monopoly, and their goal is to win - to be in control of/own everything they set their sights on.

It seems clear that they did not set their sights on developing GMOs with an ultimate goal to benefit society or mankind. If that were the case, why litigate so aggressively, and ruin so many farmers? Why manipulate laws and the legal system to make it so difficult (for anyone - consumer or producer) to differentiate between what is or isn't a GMO?

Although I appreciate B&J's stance on GMOs, I don't necessarily applaud it. GMOs are not the problem, and in fact have potential to benefit the world's population, if incorporated WITHOUT the unbalanced emphasis on capitalistic motivation.

But it's those last two words that are causing problems.

Updated On: 5/30/13 at 09:04 AM

#10

Monsanto March

Posted: 6/6/13 at 3:39pm

Stephen Colbert did a piece last night on the recent issue of Monsato's GMO wheat:

Return of the Walking Bread

Updated On: 6/6/13 at 03:39 PM

#11

Monsanto March

Posted: 6/6/13 at 8:23pm

I work at a health-food store and this Monsanto controversy is so endlessly frustrating. We will not knowingly carry a product that uses GMO's, but we constantly get the question 'is this GMO-free?' on things that are not made locally and perhaps not blatantly labeled. Then we're inclined to explain that with the money being spent so deviously in this industry, there is literally no way to tell if a company is using GMO's. Corn and wheat are risky no matter what brand you're buying from. There is just no way to know for sure.

Buy local!!

#12

Monsanto March

Posted: 6/6/13 at 9:20pm

I truly believe that the mystery of the declining bee population will trace back to GMOs.
These plants are being engineered to contain their own pesticide.

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

#13

Monsanto March

Posted: 6/9/13 at 1:53am

This company is pure evil - and I don't see any way they can be stopped. Doesn't mean we should stop trying.

#14

Monsanto March

Posted: 6/9/13 at 5:08am

My understanding is that there is basically no real corn left in the US. The same people who bitch about illegal immigrant workers don't want to think about the fact that it's the GMO corn, which grows like 10x more plentiful, that put the Mexican corn farmer out of business, forcing him to seek work elsewhere.

Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

← Back to Message Board

View all Videos

Tickets From $59

Tickets From $71