Quotes from Monsanto.... may shock you

[Ichingcarpenter]

“I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle” –

Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, “The Spirit of Enterprise”, 1934.






“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.’s job” –

Phil Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications. “Playing God in the Garden” New York Times Magazine, October 25, 1998.








“Ultimately, it is the food producer who is responsible for assuring safety” – FDA,
“Statement of Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties” (GMO Policy), Federal Register, Vol. 57, No. 104 (1992), p. 229






“What you are seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it’s really a consolidation of the entire food chain” –

Robert Fraley, co-president of Monsanto’s agricultural sector 1996, in the Farm Journal. Quoted in: Flint J. (1998) Agricultural industry giants moving towards genetic monopolism. Telepolis, Heise.







“People will have Roundup Ready soya whether they like it or not” –

Ann Foster, spokesperson for Monsanto in Britain, as quoted in The Nation magazine from article “The Politics of Food” [49] by Maria Margaronis December 27, 1999 issue.





“The hope of the industry is that over time the market is so flooded [with GMOs] that there’s nothing you can do about it. You just sort of surrender” –

Don Westfall, biotech industry consultant and vice-president of Promar International, in the Toronto Star, January 9 2001.





(Quotes compiled by the Organic Consumers Association.)

They don’t need to come from another galaxy. They’re aliens.

Their mindset is a combination of “let’s see what happens when we experiment on everybody without knowing what we’re doing” and “let’s wall ourselves off from life and compartmentalize our souls and act like soldiers taking over the Earth.”



https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/monsanto-aliens/

[bvar22]

1. In 2008, I thought the non-GMO movement would have an ear in the White House.

This is what he said:

and THIS is what he DID:

Obama appoints Tom "Mr Monsanto" Vilsack to head the USDA

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kimbrell/obamas-choice-of-vilsack_b_153213.html

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_16159.cfm

Obama Appointed Monsanto Kingpin Michael R. Taylor as the United States FDA Food Safety Czar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/monsanto-petition-tells-obama-cease-fda-ties-to-monsanto/2012/01/30/gIQAA9dZcQ_blog.html

Obama selects former Monsanto lobbyist to be his TPP chief agriculture negotiator
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662210

"Meet Monsanto's number one lobbyist: Barack Obama"

(NaturalNews) During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that he understood the GMO issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.

These activists weren't just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail, Obama said: "Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they're buying."

Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to draw in the sand.

Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government. He was adamant in promising that, if elected, his administration wouldn't do business in "the old way." He would be "responsive to people's needs."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251303687

This is a BIG issue with my Wife (a two time cancer survivor) & I,
so big that in 2006, we moved far into The Woods, away from agribusiness,
and started growing our own Non-GMO, toxin free, steroid free, anti-biotic free, and hormone free foods.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I know

he was abducted by aliens it seems, cause he's not the guy I voted for.

[WhiteTara]

4. I called the transition team and they told me that my call

was only one of 10,000. I went into a deep depression.

[proverbialwisdom]

6. Check it out.

http://gmofreect.org

Last year we were able to prove that Democracy is still alive in this country. We can do it again this year, but only if we use our voices to create a collective power that cannot be ignored.

[proverbialwisdom]

12. CT rocks. (nt)

[glinda]

3. K & R n/t

[tecelote]

5. Monopolizing Life!

“In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.”
― Henry A. Wallace

Updated...
“In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice life itself.”

--

So wrong yet so ignored by our media and justice system!

This plus Global Warming and we may already be doomed even if we start to act tomorrow. But, we're not. As a society, we are wearing blinders.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Unfortunately...

very little shocks me anymore. As long as I know that greed is the driving factor on just about everything, I know just about anything is possible.

[wisechoice]

8. Whatever they say doesn't matter

Because science has proved that the GMOs are safe. Even if there are debates in the scientific community regarding their safety, it doesn't matter. since the overall consensus is that they are safe. Anyone doubting the GMOs are unscientific.

[Enthusiast]

10. Just like Roundup.

So safe you can drink it and suffer no side effects.

[Nihil]

9. That is a good set of quotes. Bookmarked!

> “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible.
>
> “People will have Roundup Ready soya whether they like it or not” –
>
> “The hope of the industry is that over time the market is so flooded that there’s nothing you can do about it. You just sort of surrender” –

[proverbialwisdom]

11. REUTERS: Monsanto profit beats expectations on strong corn, soybean demand

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/02/us-monsanto-results-idUSBREA310YU20140402

Monsanto profit beats expectations on strong corn, soybean demand
BY CAREY GILLAM
Wed Apr 2, 2014 1:37pm EDT

(Reuters) - Monsanto Co, the world's largest seed company, reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday as its corn and soybean businesses expanded globally.

The company, which specializes in developing genetically engineered crops that withstand herbicides and ward off insects, said the profit margin in corn, its top revenue producer, increased 2.5 points in the second quarter ended on February 28.

The corn business was on track to post record volume for the fiscal year, despite lower plantings expected in the United States this spring.

Growing market opportunities in Eastern Europe and advancements in Latin America are helping the company's corn business. And despite year-to-year fluctuations in output and demand, Monsanto said it sees demand for corn worldwide surging with population and income growth over the next several years.

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PROFIT CLIMBS 13 PERCENT

Monsanto said it had earned $1.67 billion, or $3.15 a share, in the second quarter, up 13 percent from $1.48 billion, or $2.74 a share, a year earlier. Analysts on average were expecting $3.07 a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Net sales rose to $5.8 billion from $5.5 billion, in line with analysts' expectations.

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[NNadir]

13. 95% of the Soy planted in the United States last year was GMO.

Without it, the drought would have destroyed the crop, but as it was, yields were only marginally reduced.

It would be very interesting to learn how many people died from drought resistant soy, and to estimate how many people would have died without it because they simply couldn't afford food.

I very much doubt that we would have had very many people who hate science because they don't know any who would have given a shit if poor people couldn't afford food..

They would have blamed Monsanto no doubt because, well, Monsanto is spelled with an "M."

Here's a fact: There are seven billion people on this planet. Here's another: The planetary atmosphere is being destroyed rapidly while dithering rich boys carry on endlessly about their fantasy solar powered Teslas. Here's another fact: Without seeds designed to address these concerns, a lot of people are going to have to die horribly.

I note with disgust, that the simple expedient of including vitamin A in rice has been available for more than a decade, and the fear and ignorance of people who hate GMO because they stay awake all night having insipid fantasies has suppressed this advance, resulting in the blindness and/or the deaths of 1 to 2 million people per year:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/03/15/golden-rice-opponents-should-be-held-accountable-for-health-problems-linked-to-vitamain-a-deficiency/

The campaign for Golden Rice is a moral campaign, one that every rational person should support. There are many other examples of similar genetic traits that equally cry out, both for environmental and other reasons, for support. But in this climate, it won't happen. Fear and ignorance increase their power every day; with disastrous results.

I know some Monsanto scientists. They're fine people. They're not horned rapacious vicious creatures on hooves. They're trying to save people's lives, because unlike the uneducated people from peanut galleries of fear and ignorance, they give a rat's ass about the future, so much so that they bothered to educate themselves rather than sit around on their asses issuing ever more absurd platitudes about "evil corporations" and other boogey men.

The exchange of genes is a very old process, probably dating to the origins of life. It's unsurprising that people are against it, much as some people are against evolution or don't "believe" in evolution. The human genome is known to contain lots of inserted viral DNA, as is the DNA of most species. Humanity has been involved in gene selection probably since preliterate times. Today, some ten or twenty centuries later, we have barely literate people objecting to the same process because rather than involving gene selection through the ancient process called "breeding," it involves molecular biology.

In many ways, scientific ignorance on the left is as dire as the scientific ignorance on the right. It seems that as a culture, we simply hate anyone who knows any science, left and right. The uniform hatred of science and technology in this country is a real measure of why the United States is a country undergoing rapid decline.

We certainly deserve what we're going to get, whether it's a shortage of soy to make Tofu, or whether it's far more dramatic, as it surely will be.