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Headlines : EnvironmentMonsanto's Harvest of Fear
This article, although long, is worth the read. I urge all to take a look and read it to the end. It’s our food that’s at risk…
As interviews and reams of court documents reveal, Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents in the American heartland to strike fear into farm country. They fan out into fields and farm towns, where they secretly videotape and photograph farmers, store owners, and co-ops; infiltrate community meetings; and gather information from informants about farming activities. Farmers say that some Monsanto agents pretend to be surveyors. Others confront farmers on their land and try to pressure them to sign papers giving Monsanto access to their private records. Farmers call them the “seed police” and use words such as “Gestapo” and “Mafia” to describe their tactics.
[Posted By charlesmostoller]Republished from Vanity Fair
Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his “old-time country store,” as he calls it, on the fading town square of Eagleville, Missouri, a tiny farm community 100 miles north of Kansas City.
Everyone knows Rinehart, who was born and raised in the area and runs one of Eagleville’s few surviving businesses. The stranger came up to the counter and asked for him by name.
“Well, that’s me,” said Rinehart.
As Rinehart would recall, the man began verbally attacking him, saying he had proof that Rinehart had planted Monsanto’s genetically modified (G.M.) soybeans in violation of the company’s patent. Better come clean and settle with Monsanto, Rinehart says the man told him—or face the consequences.
When the stranger persisted, Rinehart showed him the door. On the way out the man kept making threats. Rinehart says he…
Posted by charlesmostoller
--Más vale morir de pie, que mendigar de rodillas--
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Monsanto’s website:
http://stoplabelinglies.com/
There labor practices are terrible, at least they were at the monsanto i worked at about 4 years ago. They hire a bunch of hispanics as temporary workers, after they work there for 3-4 months they’ll let almost all of them go, but they’ll keep some of them.. that’s understandable since they’re more busy in the summer, but then they’ll keep on a few as needed right..
So me and about 8 other guys got kept on past the temp season, we all were good hard workers, and they needed people so they didn’t fire us. After about a year though, so that they wouldn’t have to increase our wages, they fired us all and hired new temp workers, no real reason given.
they have a terrible habit of bad employment practices, and there were probably a lot of illegal aliens down there husking the corn during the harvest season. If anyone really wants to put somewhat of a dent in them, my guess is go after their employment practices.
Agronomers I know get facial tics just hearing the name.
Monsanto is shaping up to be a highly dangerous and highly volatile non entity entity. Perhaps one of the most dangerous.
The entity can get less juice in it’s tentacles if people start to question where their savings, insurances and pension plans are invested. We sure are slow to catch up on share holder meetings.
That’s the playing field to defeat savage capitalism and bring it back within some measure of reason.
It’s ripe time to see mutual funds back, with human rights articles in their charters and principle guidelines on where and on what terms they invest.
The entity can get less juice in it’s tentacles if people start to question where their savings, insurances and pension plans are invested. We sure are slow to catch up on share holder meetings.
That’s the playing field to defeat savage capitalism and bring it back within some measure of reason.
It’s ripe time to see mutual funds back, with human rights articles in their charters and principle guidelines on where and on what terms they invest.
ups to vanity fair for running this
The Vanity Fair reporter in Iron Man was pretty spot on (and hot, as well).
60 Minutes covered this last ‘episode’
Someone should include it in the next edition of Corporations Gone Wild! ...
HEMP for Victory !!!
Brave new hay
Hemp Vs. Soy
HEMP Wins! HEMP Wins!
that site is blocked in my workplace :(
Hemp Vs. Soy
http://www.hempfood.ca/hemp-vs-soy.ihtml
“We may sound biased when we say that the major difference is that hemp is everything soy isn’t, but it is true. Ok, ok, soy does have more overall protein, but hemp has the most digestible protein. Ok, it is true that soy beans expand when you add water to them, allowing for less expensive products, but that just shows how much power is packed into a tiny little hemp seed, it doesn’t need to expand. Soy contains some EFAs nothing to compare to the incredible EFA content of hemp seeds. A major problem with soy are oligosaccharides. What are those you ask? They are a short chain sugar molecule found in soy, and mixed with the proteins in soy, they give you gas, sometimes extreme gas. Hemp boosts immune response, soy makes you fart.“
“Many of the products currently made with soy can be made with hemp. Hemp seed would make them more nutritious, better tasting and would provide farmers with an excellent crop over the genetically modified nastyness of soy.”
HEMP for Victory!