Tangle of bribes creates trouble for Monsanto

[nosmokes]

yeah boy. these GMOs are so wonderful that Monsanto hasta resort to bribes and nefarious schemesjust to get them planted.

original-GMWatch

Tangle of bribes creates trouble for Monsanto (7/3/2007)

On the day a former Monsanto exec - Charles Martin - was fined $30000 for bribery while promoting Monsanto's wares in Indonesia, here's an excellent Wall Street Journal article describing Monsanto's bungled attempt to bribe Indonesia's government into accepting GM.

NB Charles Martin, the Monsanto man at the centre of the bribe's, now heads the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in China, of which Monsanto is a member.

Note also the following statement by Martin, quoted by the WSJ and revealed to investigators by an Indonesian official:

"When the government plays classical music, we play classical music; when it plays jazz, we play jazz; if it plays bribery, we play bribery; but if it plays clean, that is what we like."

Monsanto doled out a total of $700,000 plus in bribes to at least 140 Indonesian officials or their families, for which it has already had to pay $1.5 million in penalties. And when the bribes scandal got underway current Monsanto Chairman Hugh Grant was in charge of Monsanto's Asia Pacific division.
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complete article including link to a WSJ article detailing the bribery case here

[SpiralHawk]

1. GM mutant food product is total crap

gag me with a chemically saturated, genetically mutant hyper-preserved unit of clone nutrition product facsimile.

Keee-ripes.

Give me real food. Simple food. Clean food.

Don't need no steenkin Monsanto corporate clone crapola.

Korporate Krony Klone Krapola Kauses Kreepy Mutations:

[jeff30997]

2. Damn I hate that corporation!!!

They're screwing the planet!:grr: