New movie damns Monsanto's deadly sins

[Joanne98]

International — A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the credibility of US based Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and the provider of the seed technology for 90 percent of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops.

The French documentary, called “The world according to Monsanto” and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

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.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto_movie080307

[Eagle_Eye]

1. Monsanto is a smiling face with a hidden dagger clutched behind its back

They are now performing open - air testing genetically engineered crops. Monsanto, backed by the government, tells us it is safe. I am scared SH1*LESS that one of these spliced genes will go awry and wipe out one of our major food crops. How would we handle a genetically engineered plant that stops corn from producing usable grain, that is impervious to herbicides, grows like kudzu on steroids and emits a toxin like potion Ivy?

Monsanto is doing research that into products more dangerous that the Hydrogen Bomb.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. We'll just have to use

"Head On" apply directly to the (fill in affected member here). More dangerous than the h-bomb, not too far off there. Spot on actually. We are living in the times that some of the best sci fi writers foretold decades ago. Perhaps we will see a day of "Silent Green" where all the birds have disappeared and nary a sound can be heard on the coming genetically challenged planet.

[marmar]

3. In the pantheon of corporate evil, Monsanto is right up there with Exxon and Halliburton....

:argh: