The World According to Monsanto
There’s nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it – it’s strategic. It’s more powerful than bombs. It’s more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world. 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.
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March 28th, 2009 at 00:16
This is truly scary, one corporation ruling the world and the people. This is not going to end well.
June 22nd, 2009 at 01:36
BINGO!!!! First, Obama takes away our guns, then our food! The world has never seen the likes of what is about to happen to The United Socialist States of America.
July 15th, 2009 at 00:52
I am a Vietnam Vet who was exposed to Agent Orange! I have suffered from 27 symptoms since my exposure. My first clue to the horror was that where sprayed the environment looked like black death had set in, as all plant life was dead, along with bugs and animal life. Nothing was left. Then I was sprayed on (contrary to reported that this was never done according to our govt) with other vets with me and I had acne on my skin that day and worse as I couldn’t wash in the bush, or for weeks after. That acne still didn’t heal until I found, by chance to find that a medical center who was treating lead poisoning, used this same treatment on me and 67 other veterans who suffered the same symptoms as me. We all returned to a semi-normal life, as long as we kept up a regiment of treatments from this center. However they couldn’t right the cancer that came 5 years ago and I was told by the VA that i had prostate cancer and I was going to die without surgery! I refused the surgery as I found Dr. Lorraine Day’s answer of alternative treatment of cancer to surgery. She is a Cancer surgeon and she came down with cancer herself and is on the internet. She used prayer and frankincense to treat her cancer. It worked and she like me is cancer free without surgery. I put drops in my water I drank and the food I ate. I took a leap of faith, as I was told by authorities not to ingest this at all, as it will be very harmful to me.
I did research on Agent Orange at a University that pointed out the discrepencies that both Monsanto and the govt. led on for us to believe.
I let the information lead me where it may like this documentary. I found an article in the Discover magazine printed in 1986 I believe. The article was about Times Beach, Mo. and the horror there. Times Beach is a small town south of St. Louis, MO. (home of Monsanto) and the families there started to complain to authorities that their children were losing hair, coming down with leukemia, cancers and many other symptoms much like mine. The article pointed out that the town had gravel roads and they allowed someone to spray an oil based liquid to be sprayed on the dust down. In every 50 gallon barrel used there was 1 ounce of dioxin used in each barrel. By the way Dioxin is what was used in the 50 gallon barrels of Agent Orange. Guess what, in each barrel of Agent Orange was 1 pound of dioxin per barrel.
No one responded to the out rage of the people for their health symptoms. Yet, as the article said, when a horse died in one of many horse arenas in the area that was also sprayed by the same people that sprayed this chemical to control the dust in the arena’s. The horse was 2,700 lbs and the EPA was called in to find the reason for the horses death. They took the horse and put it on a metal slab out in that arena and did a 1/4 inch cut in his abdoman and they abstacted fatty cell tissue from the cut to find out if there was a poison in the animal. The EPA person was pictured in this article wearing a moon suit to protect him from any exposure of possible toxins. In the same picture several computers were surrounding him and the computers found that the horse contained enough dioxin in it’s system to kill 10 times it’s weight! They stated that it absorbed this dioxin through it’s hooves! What? In the article they decided to remove the areas sprayed with this chemical both in the arenas and in the town. They filled dump trucks full of the road gravel and the horse arenas. The town people were warned by the EPA to move from the town in fear of it’s health and could cause possible deaths. What? The EPA was shown, along with pictures of the dump trucks tires and outside with EPA people wearing moon suits washing off the tires and outside! What? They drove the trucks to an undisclosed site and they incinerated this soil and gravel at a temperature of 3,700 degrees! What? Guess what! Dioxin is formed by a temperature of only 150 degrees. Dioxin occurs at a level depending on the amount of temperature of 150 degrees and over. For ever degree over 150 degrees dioxin occurs at an alarming level for every degree over that temperature. For every degree it multiplies itself by itself which is astronomical to say the least. So then why did they incinerate it at such a high level. They misled people and press to a false understanding of how to dispose of this horror chemical. They convinced all that this took care of the problem. Then why did they tell the towns people to leave after they removed the soil? Because they knew that what they were doing didn’t take care of the problem. It was mentioned in the article that down stream of the town, the Mermac River’s fish was found to have extremely high levels of dioxin and mercury! What? You see it poisoned the whole environment, including down stream fish!
In an hour into this documentary about Monsanto addresses Agent Orange. Be patient and if questioning my credibility, then watch what they say!
July 15th, 2009 at 17:38
Monsanto needs to pay up for all the dioxin it has made and that would take care of them forever. They need to pay the people and families of all exposed and also clean up all sites where their dioxin has been used, stored around the world, as well as the oceans clean up of the barrels dumped there after Vietnam! This is their problem not the responsibility of the people using it! They made it! They sell it! Therefore they are responsible. Vietnam vets consolidated suit against them proves they knew about the health hazards and possible death of persons exposed! The memo found sent out by Monsanto saying to other chemical co. involved, “Do not leak that dioxin is a health hazard and could cause death!” This is their memo, not mine nor anyone using the chemical. That’s why the Veterans won their case! However on that point, the $285,000,000 awarded by the court judge, only came to $900 each for the 400,000 vets involved. The lawyer got $1,000,000 the day of the decision. The veterans got their money as late as years later. How fair is that? Believe me as a suffering vet who didn’t get any money from this suit, as I didn’t qualify under guide lines at that time. I do now, but, oh how sad for me. Let’s have a pity party for me. No, lets get rid of Monsanto! Then and only then will I be a little happy. I could get millions and not be happy. It’s not about the money, like it is for them! I’ll never be the same and I’m sure I’ll die before I am supposed to because of my exposure. So will millions around the world! They are still selling dioxin to third world countries and they are going to poison the populations in the gene pool of seeds and ban organic crops that they don’t own. They will own any crops that pollen from their crops germinate and they will then own that crop! Listen to the issue on this in the documentary!
August 21st, 2009 at 01:05
regarding the comercial: after the dog kills the weed using round up, he retrieves a human bone…how cryptic.
November 27th, 2009 at 02:04
And so, the Obamas plant a lovely vegetable garden in their rather large backyard. Tom Vilsack becomes the Secretary of Agriculture (I wonder how he feels about Michelle’s organic garden); Michael Taylor (featured in this documentary in telephone conversations) heads, once again, to the FDA. I imagine they come over for dinner and enjoy Michelle’s pesticide-free, plump tomatoes (uhhh, that came out wrong). After the meal they likely laugh and say, “Let them eat cake!” albeit one made with genetically modified ingredients.
November 28th, 2009 at 07:59
Christ. This is absolutely outrageous. Mega corporations are destroying society as we know it!
The part that really got me was Monsanto’s pledge from their website:
Integrity: Falsifying information, faulty studies.
Dialogue: Refusing interviews.
Transparency: Confidential documents, company secrets.
Sharing: Taking land from local farmers.
Benefits: Cancer, hepatitis, death.
Respect: Trashing scientific opposition.
You get the picture. F**k Monsanto.
November 28th, 2009 at 08:33
@ Andy – You missed the nomination of Islam Siddiqui. See here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19436.cfm President Obama should listen to the First Lady on this one.
November 30th, 2009 at 06:24
When if ever does thier patents on GM seed run out?
December 3rd, 2009 at 21:24
Thank you Julia,
The list just goes on and on. Unfortunately, I don’t think Mr. Obama or the First Lady have much to say here.
December 4th, 2009 at 09:22
Excellent. Watchin’ this just after Food, Inc.
I must say, this company is evil… =/
December 7th, 2009 at 05:29
I agree that Monsanto is evil. But, if we walk off from the contract we have with the evil – refuse to pay the royalties, then the problem is solved. Do we we have to follow the rules/laws that are made by them and in favour of them? Let’s say F***-off Monsanto and the like.
December 13th, 2009 at 19:39
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
“The part that really got me was Monsanto’s pledge from their website:
Integrity: Falsifying information, faulty studies.
Dialogue: Refusing interviews.
Transparency: Confidential documents, company secrets.
Sharing: Taking land from local farmers.
Benefits: Cancer, hepatitis, death.
Respect: Trashing scientific opposition.”
December 16th, 2009 at 19:31
one part of the problem is the patent it is protected by law.
so let’s brake the law.
scrap them of their patent, when they want money for the their researches, then it will be equivalent for their damaged caused
what is this nonsense of depriving people of liberty.
burn all the Monsanto factories, people who do this should be called freedom fighters fighting for their liberty. of course the yankee controlled media would call them terrorist.
but it is the only way these people can understand. a pity …how much grief they caused already, how much will be caused…
let’s put an embargo on america, to force them to leave this weapon of mass extinction.they rely on the cupidity of people and take advantage.
the american people, and there are a lot of good american people out there , they must realise that it is these people who are giving americaa bad image of being liars, imperialists, looking only for their own gain. they must stop to buy into the propagandas.
the soldiers must refuse to fight, the people must pressure the government and be prepared for sacrifice. other people have already paid dearly millions of dead, injured, you are responsible. please, from the world we are telling you to stop stop these people from destroying our planet.
December 16th, 2009 at 19:34
i normally don’t do this but f##k monsanto
January 10th, 2010 at 15:58
Having seen this film and others like it. I have to question. What exactly is the problem? The problem isn’t the poisoning of our food supply by “GMO” or “monoculture.” The problem is us. Humans. There’s too many of us on the planet. We’re pushing the system to the breaking point regardless of any technological tampering. The introduction of “GMO” and “monoculture” is just helping to speed along the process of killing us off so the planet can return to its natural balance. Wipe out the humans and all the GMO crops will die out anyway as they won’t survive without our help.
January 17th, 2010 at 10:45
I always laugh at that imbecile farmer with the american soybean association saying that RR soy is “perfectly safe” and “good for the environment”.This company,its products and its business practices really scare me.Its hard to comprehend a company who thinks nothing of trashing the environment or destroying peoples lives,all in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
February 7th, 2010 at 02:43
And now, Forbes magazine has declared Monsanto “Company of the Year” in their “America’s Best Companies” issue (January 2010)! The article paints an innocuous picture of this company of the future, and blithely dismisses criticisms of Monsanto as mere image problems with an overly sensitive public. Monsanto’s true problem, according to Forbes? Their products are TOO GOOD! We average citizens are going to have to be tenacious to resist this takeover. We must overturn Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980), the decision that makes it legal to patent living things. The decision claimed that the organisms in question were human creations, products of human ingenuity, and therefore could be property. But those humans didn’t create life; they merely hybridized it. These organisms are not human creations any more than mules or ligers or pluots are human creations. The argument that a new species was created is a shell-game in terminology. They can’t create life, they can only participate (or interfere) in it. A macabre observation: with solemn respect and condolences to the families; by the logic of such a court decision, are all those deformed and stillborn children Monsanto’s property, too? Good people must resist this abomination, and as a publicly-traded company, Monsanto is required by law to do everything it can to maximize and protect its profits, so we’ll need our thinking caps on to resist effectively.