The World According to Monsanto
Monsanto (now merged with Bayer) is a the largest agricultural biotechnology company in the world. They are also the planet's leading producer of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, a process that promotes the manipulation of traits which naturally occur in plants and crops. Ever since the company gained government approval for their first modified soybean in the late 1990s, a public debate has persisted as to the potential health hazards of GMO products.
The feature-length documentary The World According to Monsanto provides a comprehensive overview of that debate. As detailed in the film, Monsanto has long been steeped in controversy. During its earliest incarnation at the start of the twentieth century, the company manufactured a series of products which were eventually deemed unacceptably toxic in their applications, including the DDT insecticide, Agent Orange and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB).
Monsanto produced the latter in the town of Anniston, Alabama for nearly four decades. When Anniston residents began to link the chemical to increased incidents of cancer, retardation and a variety of other chronic illnesses and abnormalities, they successfully sued the company to the tune of 700 million dollars.
The film spends much effort in exploring the dangers of Monsanto's most profitable product - Roundup, a herbicide that has proven enormously popular in both homes and agricultural communities for its ability to kill weeds. The filmmakers discover that the company was reprimanded twice for false advertising in claiming the product was biodegradable and friendly to the environment. Many concerns persist regarding its potential long-term effects on the environment and human health as proper testing has never been officially sanctioned.
The film places the blame for this squarely at the feet of the United States government and its most influential policy makers. Monsanto wields great influence in Washington, DC, and the filmmakers accuse those in power of being susceptible to the company's strong-arm bribery tactics.
The World According to Monsanto ultimately suffers from its central framing device, which consists of filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin sifting through Google search pages to find the next lead in her investigation, as well as its one-sided view of the issue. But the evidence it does offer provides much food for thought.
Very Interesting information, then the video ended in french.
It starts out in English, than change"s to ? French ?? Is There A Version Of This Thats In All English ???
JW.ORG is the only solution. Peace . Dan 2.44!!
Unless you're fluent in French, don't become invested in this film. After 30 minutes it's dubbed over in French. Subtitles are not available. Pitty.
Thank You.
FIXING MONSANTO, the easy way:
There is one relatively easy way to end Monsanto's evil reign. Pool the donations from billions of people for the cause of buying 51 percent of Monsanto shares. Then put all their people to work making natural organic farming helpful items. If you don't keep them busy and earning an income, they will just go to work for some other similar evil corp.
Like usual the real problem is us. Not taking advantage of such relatively easy fixes and just carping ad infinitum about bad things instead of lifting a finger to fix it. We have the know how, we have the ability, we have everything but the will. We are our own worst enemy.
If it doesn't say "NonGMO" or "Organic", don't buy it. That is a definite solution.
With GeoEngineering / Chemtrails you have no choice, it just keeps coming. At this point it is far more dangerous than GMO. You will have to take direct action in a massive group effort to stop it. That massive effort, if it ever were to be organized and occur, would be to contact all legislators and congress people of your districts and tell them in no uncertain terms they will be ousted if they fail to stop the GeoEngineering / Chemtrails in 60 days. If they fail to do so, start recalls on ALL of them. This would be a very simple and easy thing to do if it weren't for the laziness of the wimpy citizenry who forever listen to the fake news and propaganda and claim they don't have the time but continually waste gobs of time on various ridiculous things including doing nothing.
Regarding GMO, if you don't buy it, the rest of the farmers will have to grow NonGMO. That is the power you have. Vote with your wallet. If you whine about it costing more, unless you are completely broke, you are likely wasting much more on something stupid, like GMO beer, GMO chips, or whatever.
Evil men and women hide behind a paper structure called a corporation. The structure itself in its original inception was beneficial, to organize to build roads and other public works. Weasel judges allowed weasel lawyers to corrupt the corporation into the status equal to or above humans that it is today.
To the libs who suck up the fake education and fake news. Corporatism and corruption is not Capitalism, however, corruption IS an inherent part of Socialism and the whole purpose behind it, to eliminate competition for the big boys. The same people behind monsanto are pushing socialism, and you the useful idiots, if not buying into one, then the other, which will make the rest of their plans MUCH easier.
Clearly a bought and paid for weasel judge ruled against any logic, reason, rhyme, precedent, and existing law, to give monsanto the rights to the other farmers crops that it infects. That would be like giving Typhoid Mary the rights to anyone she infected. Like giving whoever invented AIDS, the rights to who ever became infected with it.
Any court that allowed that ruling to stand, including the Supreme Court, if it got that far, is a corrupt and therefore invalid court. You don't have to accept corruption. It is similar to a serviceman following illegal orders which go against the code of conduct. If they disobey they risk court martial and the end of their career. If they obey, they risk court martial and the end of their career. However, if they gather together as a Platoon and say no, sir, that is wrong but here is what we suggest in that regard, with your approval. No ego maniac authority likes to be told a flat out no. If you divert their attention with a solution you are far better off. As far as civilian courts, you will also have to gather together to twist the elbows of your legislators and congress to pass a law negating any rights monsanto has to anything including its corporate status since at the very least, it is against the public interest.
The problem is us. We fail to see to it wise decent incorruptible people are running for all offices. from all parties, in numbers, with one term limit to lessen the corruption. When the possibility of a lifelong career in politics no longer exists, a fair percentage of the corruption will go away. Whether demon rat or repuklicon most are bought and paid for.
To the wonderful sweet person who explained that humans are too many and monsanto is simply getting rid of them: Please show us you believe what you say and get rid of yourself as to lead by example and save monsanto the trouble. If the "people" at monsanto also believed in what they are doing, knowing it is causing leaky gut syndrome due to the inherent gut eating pesticide Genetically put into the crop, they should be forced to eat it in prison.
If you don't see to it, it won't happen.
the GENE GUN ! !! ...... . . AhahahahHAHAHAHAh..... the gene gun....
The Jews did it. How original Are you anti-semitic commenters off your meds?
Jesus F*&^$&#* H Christ! This is a f&*^$&*# disaster! How the hell does this horrible company still exist?! Oh that's right.. because of evil, selfish, power hungry, money obsessed ass&*%$# who hold on tightly to the ingenious concept of legal slavery. Own the peoples food and you control the people. Just like money really. What a sad sorry state of affairs we live in.
To all involved at Monsanto. Karma exists and your day of reckoning will come. Be it in this life or the next. Your fault
Why are we allowing this!, we all have people elected to congress, we should all be pestering them to stop these greedy madmen.
It's real simple, STOP THEM then jail the people who were bought by this evil company
I love how they claim that this is "SCIENCE", yet they are changing the definition of "science" to fit their own interests. Science is using ALL the data you find and creating a conclusion from it. As soon as you remove the data that does your interests harm, you are no longer using scientific techniques.
its the way it goes the people don't care if they did this wouldn't be happening
There is a special place in hell reserved for the CEO of this hellish company. It represents all that is evil and corrupt in our society!! You and your family are less than speck of dirt to this company. GREED!!!!
I wonder how much people get paid to fight with other people on message boards? Just sayin' because propaganda and rebuttal work in all directions. I would like a GMO label on my food, bare minimum--so if Bt has been genetically splatted into the thing I'm supposed to think is food, I don't have to buy or eat it. But that's because I have a gut--and insecticidal "food" has no place in my gut (or anyone else's--it can stay in the dirt where it's good at doing it's ecological thing). And if it's been doused with Round-up, I can leave that on the shelf too. Sorry, just my "scientist" opinion--but I'm entitled to it ;)... and I'm entitled to keep my gut lining intact and biochemistry happy ;).
hooray, more pseudo environmentalist lies about GM.
I look at the anti GM crowd in the same way that i look at the anti vaccine crowd...the results of their lies are just as devastating and just as misinformed.
Yes Monsanto is a big evil company...you can thank neo-liberalism for that...It's right wing politics that have deregulaised the industry to the point where one major company can call all the shots.
But the anti GM crowd are also to blame for monsanto's success.
After all, so many people shouting MONSANTO at the top of their voices...you literally couldn't pay for advertising like that...the assault of misinformation on GM has also pretty much made it a toxic asset for any other company to try it's hand in, so thanks to the anti-GM movement, Monsanto will forever hold the monopoly on GM.
I always find it funny when anti-GM protesters call GM "Frankenfoods"
Afterall, Frankenstein s monster was the innocent creation of a man trying to cure death with science, a creation that was hunted down by an ignorant torch wielding mob who didn't care what it was or what it meant, but just knew they didn't like it.
the irony is obviously lost on the thousands of gm protestors who have never seen Frankenstein.
How could this be a chemical company become the one who control our food .what is the big question what they eat the peoples who works for Monsanto they poisoning everybody and hands and hands with the FDA creating Healthcare so the pharmaceuticals can make some money as well but why poisons why can they just create good old fashion medicine .the healthy world is not profitable the botom line is we let them do this
This documentary is too one-sided, and desperately needs to research the benefits of Monsanto in order to make a more conclusive argument
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Just require ban on patents on genes - it will be great step forward.
Unless MONSANTO, or any **** like that for the matter, can prove it's able to make dna or a single genome just out of the blue, I can't see how they can claim any patent rights over nature's creation and forbid humans to grow plants or raise animals on their own in a natural way as they please. Those Monsanto c**** et al. can only have the power we all allow them to have, and we all have allowed them excessive power so far. And you don't have to take my word. Just read some history from the XVIII century, what peasants and farmers and the poor people did to the power in France and the reason for that, or what your direct ancestors from the seven original States did to the Brits and the reason for that. Read "Common Sense", "The Crisis". I'm pretty sure Thomas Paine and the like would have some words to say these days. Different times, different outfits, underneath-the-skin similar situation: the intention of a few to control the very lives of the majority. Back then, the people had the guts and did what they had to do. Do we have the guts? Are we really gonna let them? If we are, then we have no one else to blame. Just to start fighting back, get a restrain order so as not to permit Monsanto's seeds "fly away" to anybody else's lands and contaminate. That is "clear trespassing", and if Monsanto can't help that from happen, so they shouldn't be allowed to grow any **** in the open, or anywhere at all.
Plant your own organic garden = starve the beast
How funny are you people, I take none of you are farmers, much less know how to work for a living its really easy to judge. However the fact is that in the United State we have some of the cheapest foods prices in the world and can provide more food on less acreage than needed 40 years ago. What Monsanto and other companies have done is help provide methods to help farmers get the highest possible production on less land so that all you need to do is go to the grocery store and buy the food. Ramble about this all you want but hate the company if you want, but before you go any further learn how hard it is to produce the the food that feeds a nation of ungratful people.
how are we let tin a company who developed agent orange and produced napalm to kill thousands of innocent people make "fertilizers" for our food? how are we letting them genetically modify our foods , take the blindfolds off people and do something .
It may be a bit too late to stop this giant evil though.
Okay friends, what SHALL we do then? How does the average citizen battle this evil? If we grow our own organic food, raise our own livestock and we still can't trust our own food because it could still be contaminated...then what??? This is freakin SCARY!!!