An open letter to Monsanto

[nosmokes]

Nice piece from a contributor to Ethicurean. Don't miss the artwork at the original. ;)
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original-ethicurean

An open letter to Monsanto

Oh, Monsanto.

Just look at you. You’ve got your knit cap pulled down tight over your crew cut, and your stomach is sticking out beneath your skull-and-crossbones T-shirt. Your face is riddled with acne, and your eyes are all hard and mean. You’ve been left back a few grades now — summer school doesn’t always help much, does it? — and so now you are way bigger than everyone else.

You don’t have too many friends anymore. It’s tough to be the class behemoth, isn’t it? So you’ve taken to pushing other kids around on the playground and trying to take their milk money.

Or, at least, to take away their ability to label their milk as rBGH-free. Makes you feel bad when they label things that way, like they know you’ve got cooties or something. Plus you lose money then, and you don’t like losing money. It makes you feel … small, somehow.

So you do what all oversized bullies do to keep themselves from feeling small: you push. You push all the kids you think you can get away with pushing.
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[Redstone]

1. Pure, unadulterated evil, Monsanto is. How the FUCK can anyone who works for them

sleep with themselves at night, or look at themselves in the mirror in the morning?

How?

Redstone

[jtrockville]

2. There must be lots of folks walking around without souls. (nt)

[Redstone]

4. I guess so. DuPont has doen some evil shit too, but at least they balance it somewhat with

good stuff now and again.

If Satan owned a corporation, it would be Monsanto.

Redstone

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. My exact sentiments as well.

[Dora]

10. I've thought about asking my BIL that.

But he and his large family live in a small town with very few employment opportunities in the region. I imagine he doesn't ask himself discomfiting questions about his employer, as the survival of his family depends on him.

[lazyriver]

3. Excellent piece. I hate Monsanto perhaps more than any

other corporation.

[nels25]

5. I am light on this one

could some of you good people enlighten me on what Monsanto makes and what it misdeeds are so I can understand the anger.

I would imagine the anger at Monsanto is legitimate I just would like to be brought up to date on the details.

Thank you for your support and help,

:dilemma:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. Here you go. Plenty to get you feeling ill...

http://members.aye.net/~hippie/monsanto.htm

[Redstone]

8. How about putting a "self-destruct" gene in seeds, so poor people in Africa are FORCED

to buy new needs every year, rather than planting seeds from last year's crop?

How about SUING FARMERS, because those farmers' crops had been polluted by pollen blowing over from a neighboring farm's crop of FrankenFood...doesn't matter to them that the farmer didn't WANT Monsnato's "product;" because it's PATENTED, Monsanto accuses them of "stealing their product."

You should be able to find out all you need to know about those fucking monsters at Monsanto with about 10 minutes of research.

Christ, they'll probably try to sue ME for saying what I did.

Redstone

[countryjake]

11. Here ya go, for starters...

Monsanto's efforts to destroy the small farmer and monopolize agriculture with dangerous GM crops
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=94276&mesg_id=94276

and for extra reading:

How GM Crops Endanger Environment and Agriculture (A Must Read)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2770958&mesg_id=2770958

Monsanto Sucks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2876386&mesg_id=2876386

GM Crop Trial Locations May Be Hidden From Public
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/15/7099/

[devilgrrl]

9. "Your face is riddled with acne"

I agree with the general tone of your OP - because Monsanto does suck serious ass.

Unfortunately, as a acne sufferer, I take complete umbrage to the one of the statements you made. That is so NOT fair. Tom Haden is a acne suffer as well - is he evil too?

[nosmokes]

13. You're absolutely correct devilgrrl. While I'm not the author of this piece

I do apologize for any offense and I most emphatically do not believe you or Sen Haden to be evil at all.In fact I count myself as a fan of you both.

[devilgrrl]

14. Thanks. You're the ginchiest.

:hug:

[Pastiche423]

12. Great piece!

K&R