Monsanto named a 'best place to work' for LGBT equality
Source: STL Post Dispatch
Creve Coeur-based Monsanto has scored a perfect 100 percent in an annual measure of how well large private businesses treat lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, customers and investors.
Monsanto is one of only 304 major businesses across all U.S. industries and the only Fortune 1000 based in St. Louis to receive a perfect score, the Human Rights Campaign said Wednesday.
It's the fourth consecutive time the company has been designated a Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality" by the Human Rights Campaign.
The campaign's Corporate Equality Index rates companies based on LGBT-friendly policies and procedures. Monsanto, for example, offers domestic partner and transgender-inclusive health care coverage to employees.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/monsanto-named-a-best-place-to-work-for-lgbt-equality/article_75de855c-06cd-51ae-85f5-e95c5ec8aaa9.html
marble falls
(57,080 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)If only they had the good benefits without the creepy, horrible side.
merrily
(45,251 posts)1KansasDem
(251 posts)Now, what do I do.
Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)...they are smart enough not to alienate gay people who could help them develop their next evil project.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)I suppose one could not buy any Roundup herbicide, but that is minuscule compared to the amount of products one consumes everyday which were produced using Monsanto products, one way or the other.
Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)I guess eating organic only would be one way.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Doubtful if anyone actually does that even if they think they do.
goldent
(1,582 posts)I think this has at least something to do with it.
marble falls
(57,080 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)I'm not sure they are credible any more.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest US gay organization, is going international. Its just been given at least $3 million to spread the word of marriage equality to benighted countries that treat gays badly. Unfortunately, theres a catch. Its chief partner and donor in this project wants the people in those countries, LGBT folk included, to starve their economies wrecked, their incomes shipped abroad, their resources squeezed and stolen to pay off odious debt. HRC is receiving its money for gay rights in the Third World from the man who virtually invented vulture funds: a form of speculation thats one of the worst contributors to Third World poverty ever.
But if youre poor and getting poorer, look on the bright side (as long as river blindness hasnt got you, that is). You can still have a nice white wedding; and youll save on the food bill if your nation has no food.
HRC is understandably happy about the sunny prospects opening up. It says,
The need to support LGBT advocates and call out U.S.-based anti-equality organizations abroad has never been greater. At the same time, opportunities exist for a global equality movement as a growing number of countries are passing pro-equality legislation and recognizing marriage equality. Seventeen countries around the world afford, or will soon afford, committed and loving gay and lesbian couples the legal right to marry.
One of the two big donors to this project is a little more explicit about how the enterprise relates to the projection of US power:
Every day around the world, LGBT individuals face arrest, imprisonment, torture and even execution just for being who they are, said Paul Singer. Some of the worst offenders in this area also happen to be the same regimes that have dedicated themselves to harming the United States and its democratic allies across the globe. [Emphasis added] As an organization that has been at the forefront of the equality movement for over three decades, the Human Rights Campaign is uniquely positioned to work in tandem with NGOs to empower LGBT and human rights advocates abroad and help stop these abuses.
Well, yes, except this doesnt quite sound like human rights envisioned from the high vantage of universality and internationalism. It sounds like LGBT rights uneasily painted into a picture of US interests.
On the other hand, its natural to couch the project in terms of what the US will get out of it. After all, its two deep-pocketed benefactors are Singer, who runs a hedge fund called Elliott Management, and Daniel S. Loeb, who runs another called Third Point LLC. Theyre both conservatives and huge donors to the Republican Party. Singer underwrote last years GOP National Convention with $1 million of largesse. One operative called him the big power broker in the Republican financial world.
http://paper-bird.net/2013/11/04/hrc-and-the-vulture-fund-making-third-world-poverty-pay-for-lgbt-rights/
sinkingfeeling
(51,448 posts)Javaman
(62,521 posts)Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)Herself
(185 posts)Right out of Hitlers play book.