11 YRS OLD EXPOSES MONSANTO AND TELLS MONSANTO WHERE THEY CAN SHOVE IT .. BRAVE

[coyote]

Run time: 05:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nndEZBQ9bds   Posted on YouTube: March 13, 2011 By YouTube Member: renagade12 Views on YouTube: 256   Posted on DU: March 13, 2011 By DU Member: coyote Views on DU: 4847

 

[Charleston Chew]

1. Kick & Recommend

slightly related
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Total War: Agri-Business Style

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[IDemo]

2. That is one awesome kid

He may envision himself as an organic farmer now, but I'll bet a leadership position of one sort or another is also part of his future.

:thumbsup:

[Charleston Chew]

3. excuse me?!

Why cant an organic farmer be a leadership position?

Are you saying one is better than the other?

What is your vision of Americas future? Obviously not a very progressive vision.


You are a shining example of the difference between Democrats and Progressives.

[BeyondGeography]

5. And you are a shining example of how the Internet sucks sometimes

Go ahead, destroy the good vibe of the video and a harmless, positive post with your bullshit.

[IDemo]

6. Back off, please

I included the word "also" for precisely that reason. I'm perfectly well aware that organic farmer or any other profession of one's choosing doesn't preclude someone from multi-tasking as a leader.

Your leap of judgement, on the other hand, represents just the kind of thinking I have grown to expect from the right.

[Charleston Chew]

7. Laugh Out Loud!

"grown to expect from the right"?

The right are the ones who think that "leaders" deserve more respect than farmers.


From the right indeed.

[IDemo]

9. Second opinion, anyone?

Have I offended farmers or suggested they don't share the same respect as those in leadership positions?

You've made a failed attempt to parse my words into meaning something entirely different than what I wrote.

The kid is great, and in fact, a leader now as the story of his 6 year old brother shows. Organic farmers are leaders by definition for choosing the morally and ethically correct path into the future for themselves and humanity. Should they also find themselves in a position of leadership in business, government or organics advocacy, they have added to their resume and life experience.

That's all. Better?

[Buzz Clik]

12. Your post was fine. You didn't impugn the kid in the slightest.

The reaction to your post was unfounded.

[obxhead]

39. Not only unfounded,

but illogical and idiotic imo.

[Sherman A1]

41. Agreed & Well Said

Some folks are simply looking for point of confrontation upon which to jump.

The reaction was unfounded, unnecessary and a trifle rude in my opinion.

[SkyDaddy7]

15. NO WORRIES! Your post was wonderful & I agreed with 1000%...

You just happen to run into a very crabby person! The kind that give true Progressives a bad name!

See ya around! :hi:

[madrchsod]

17. i bet there`s organic farmers there in madison

and who knows some may be leaders. wisconsin is number 2 in organic farming in usa.

you did`t offend me

[NJCher]

18. well, I noted the "also" in your first post

And I was happy you put that in because organic gardening is considered the "intellectual's gardening." That is because whenever one encounters a crux, one has to research to learn the natural means of working with it. Example: aphids: strong shower of water or water from the hose simulating nature. Ladybugs, who eat that particular type of pest. There is no end to the challenges of organic farming, and it is a pleasure to do because every day one learns more about nature.

Thus anyone intelligent enough to do that can also multitask as a leader.

This is not to disparage those who farm by chemical means. They are locked into a system, just like many of us who are in the "drive to work" cycle. I hate driving to work and I would like to use a bicycle but the danger of NJ roadways and the distances preclude it. Yes, people do break out and many here have. It can be done, but it's not easy.

I loved this little kid's speech. I am going to use it in my speech classes as we are now going into persuasive speaking. I think the kid had a little help from his teacher in constructing that speech, as it almost perfectly emulates The Monroe Motivated sequence.

Loved the lines about sparkly cereal and NFL player/organic farmer.

Wow, wow, wow, I'm so impressed--and very touched.


Cher

[glowing]

40. He's homeschooled... So maybe mom or dad or just intelligent kid

[neoralme]

21. Your post was fine, with or without the also. In what may well be

the early steps of the big battle against Fascism, I suggest we keep start keeping our eyes on the dot. Good job of doing that.

[The Doctor.]

25. Some people just love to find excuses to adminish others for some perceived slight.

Some will see racism, sexism, bigotry, and yes, even 'non-progressivism' when no such things are there. They are indignation junkies looking for a superiority fix.

It's easy to prove this assessment wrong... he could apologize for jumping all over you. But that's rare in the case of the rage-monger.

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. From my fourteen year old hanging over my shoulder.

"There will always be someone around to find the most arbitrary reason to bitch."

It's actually been somewhat sobering. The last few threads I have clicked on, my son has instantly spotted examples of people hopping in to say the most asinine things for seemingly the hell of it. You made perfect sense to me.

[veganlush]

30. Your post is good. The reaction was off-base. It happens to the best of

..us. I've flown off the handle at times and got it wrong. That response was probably, as another DU'er just said, a crabby person or one on an off day.

[trumad]

43. Of course not...

Some here just simply have keyboards without flame control.

[mwb970]

45. You shouldn't have to defend yourself like this.

I myself ignore clueless, semi-literate responses to my posts. Others usually comment back on my behalf.

[SkyDaddy7]

14. What in the hell crawled into your organic toasted oats?

It folks like yourself that not only ruin a good video but are ruin a forum as all you are looking for is a fight!

You ARE NOT a Progressive! You are simply an AGGRESSIVE! Calm down!

[TheMadMonk]

36. Perhaps briefly. But look what THEY did to the little farmer with the big grin. /nt

[diane in sf]

37. "a leadership position of one sort or another is ALSO part of his future"

doesn't sound like it excludes anything to me.

[neoralme]

20. I'll bet you're right.

[sellitman]

4. Maybe there is hope for the future?

His name we will hear from again.

[Casandia]

8. This young man

is very poised, articulate, and intelligent. Whatever path he chooses for himself, I expect he will succeed. He is passionate about this subject - wonderful! Me too!

[JJW]

10. Hope this kid has a good lawyer

because Monsanto likes to sue anyone against their Franken seeds.

[Buzz Clik]

13. Franken seeds. That sounds scary.

The seeds aren't scary, but that's funny.

[Buzz Clik]

11. He's a very able and clear speaker. And, like many here, has his facts muddled.

GMO's have been been proven to cause cancer? No, they have not.

But, that's not the point. Tip of the hat to a charismatic young man.

[SkyDaddy7]

16. Right...I too am more impressed with his abilities at age 11...

more so than his "facts". Plus, his overall message was good...I see nothing wrong with motivating more & more people to buy produce from local farmers...When possible. Everyone will have to buy veggies shipped in from a long way away in the off season.

[plantwomyn]

33. GMO's haven't been tested well enough either way.

Because they are patented it will take decades to do studies to see the effect on animals and humans. The fact that Monsanto makes so many seeds "Round-up" ready is bad enough. It forces farmers to use more herbicides. Monsanto and others tweak their seeds so often that even if one varietal caused problems we would have to do another study for the NEXT varietal.

Monsanto has bankrupted thousands of farmers and they have every government behind them. If one of their plants pollinates an "organic" crop across the road they will take your farm and everything you own if they can. Monsanto is trying to decimate the origins of corn in Mexico so that farmers around the world will have to by their seed.

Check out this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPKoSrc99p4

The U.S. under Bush screwed "organic" farmers by codifying the definition of "organic" and caused "organic farming" to become a HUGE bureaucracy. It costs big money now to be able to use the word organic for your products now. While it's sweet to have Farmers Markets, most of those farms can't afford the cost of the "organic" label. The Bush Administration didn't do this to protect consumers, they did it to make it harder for organic farmers to compete with their corporate buddies.

[truedelphi]

34. Google "Dr Don Huber" + health risk + GMO's

And read his fine work and then get back to us.

It takes a long time to "prove" something. For a whole decade of my life, I sat in offices so heavy with the blue black of cigarette smoke, with no r recourse to this situation. Complaining to management was pointless - you'd think I was saying little green men from mars were impairing my health. I knew those things were causing my health problems. I knew my dad, who couldn't afford to quit his job, would die of emphysema from those cancer sticks that people around him smoked. And he did.

But luckily, the Surgeon General in the nineteen sixties bravely put warnings on all the cigarette packges. Despite the fact that we were eyars away from proof.

Now our corporations totally own us. They own most scientitsts also. But Huiber has persevered, adnd although he cannot yet "prove" the link of cancer to fungus-blighted GM grain consumption forced on us by the fact that almost all the grains in this nation are GM, he does have INDICATIONS that what is going on is a serious matter.

And if the indie scientists continue their trsearch on this, it will be proven.

[Buzz Clik]

46. I'm quite familiar with Huber and his work. He's a capable scientist.

However, his work has not been adequately reviewed nor duplicated by anyone else. (That doesn't mean he's wrong, we just don't have enough information to make the pronouncements he's making)

And, much more to the point, the problem is in the excessive use of Roundup, not the GMOs,

[himynameiss3an]

19. Best kid ever?

Take down corporate farming! Woo!

[felix_numinous]

22. My Dad had a similar saying-

"You either pay the grocer, or end up paying the doctor." But paying the farmer is even better :)

[JeffersonChick]

23. What an awesome kid! k&r

[femrap]

24. K and R

That kid's speech gave me goosebumps....and a little hope.

[handmade34]

27. Brilliant

a joy to see

I was a bit older than 11 when I studied with one of those "crazy" organic farmers (Dale Kunkel, Eaton Rapids, MI, now deceased) but doing so changed my life... the young man is right... we need to make the change one kid at a time

[Mybrokenchains]

28. +1 for tomatofish

[Paka]

29. What a great kid! Articulate and passionate.

We need more Pirke Baehr's out there fighting for all of our futures. :loveya:

[democracy1st]

31. K & R

[DollyM]

32. did you catch this part . . . he is home schooled

For those of you that think those of us who home-school our children are back woods red necks that do nothing but teach our children to skin possums and vote Republican, here is your answer! Home schooled kids benefit from the extra attention and time of their parents so that they can learn to think on their own. Just because a few of them don't, doesn't mean you should judge all home schooled children to be less. Just something to think about . . .

[FarLeftFist]

35. Oh their are definitely alot of home schooled Liberals as well...

If done correctly home schooling can easily be MORE beneficial than public or private school, the problem is, is that if done incorrectly it can be a form of child abuse. The latter usually describes how conservatives home-school their kids, along with your description of skinning possums.

[TheMadMonk]

38. Oh, I understand that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with home schooling.

The problems arise from the REASONS why parents choose to home school.

It's when the reason is to avoid/prevent exposure to conflicting ideologies that objections should be raised. And I extend my wariness to schools which trade on any form of ideological separatism.

It seems that the best indicator is not in what the parents want their children to learn, but in the fact that they are so bloody mindedly determined that there are "certain things" their children will not learn. Not that they might wish to present a particular jaundinced view of the world (we all WANT to do that), but to deprive them of the basic necessary formative knowledge that more than one possible worldview exists.

[era veteran]

42. Kid is right on, I'd like to talk to him. Monsanto fills the

requisites to be a wholly owned subsidiary of hell.
I'm posting on my facebook thing.

[goforit]

44. Yep, Time to rid evil from the world! Great speech!