Millions Against Monsanto: On the Road to Victory

[marmar]

from the Organic Consumers Assn, via truthout:



After enjoying a year of maximum profits, record stock prices, the defeat of a major GMO labeling campaign in California, pro-industry court decisions, and a formidable display of political power in Washington, D.C. – including slipping the controversial Monsanto Protection Act into the Federal Appropriations bill in March - the Biotech Bully from St. Louis now finds itself on the defensive.

It is no exaggeration to say that Monsanto has now become the most hated corporation in the world.

Plagued by a growing army of Roundup-resistant superweeds and Bt-resistant superpests spreading across the country, a full 49 percent of American farmers are now frantically trying to kill these superweeds and pests with ever-larger quantities of toxic pesticides, herbicides and fungicides including glyphosate (Roundup), glufosinate, 2,4D (“Agent Orange’), dicamba, and neonicotinoids (insecticides linked to massive deaths of honey bees).

Reacting to this dangerous escalation of chemical farming, toxic residues on foods and environmental pollution, over a million consumers and organic farmers have pressed the Obama administration to reject a new generation of GE “Agent Orange” and dicamba-resistant crops, forcing the USDA to postpone commercialization of these crops, at least temporarily. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17666-millions-against-monsanto-on-the-road-to-victory

[BlueToTheBone]

1. This is really one of our most important battlegrounds

and it is often overlooked. I think it's because the food chain is broken in the supermarket and fast food places so people don't realize what is happening.

[KoKo]

2. The EU VOTE against Monsanto was a good step...if they will hold on it!

We can NEVER GIVE UP...because when we think we one one step forward we are often overturned to two steps back. They are so POWERFUL...we cannot give up.

K&R!

[forestpath]

3. Obama will do whatever Monsanto wants him to do.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. kick

[Chaco Dundee]

5. cancer prevention

Quit buying their shit and grow your own.or find somebody who will do it for you.your safe meat is also available if you are willing to find it.you must make the effort to eat healthy,monsanto will feed you though if you are that desperate.

[NealK]

6. K&R

[avaistheone1]

7. Monsanto's behavior is evil.

k&r

[Treant]

8. Criticism

2,4-D isn't Agent Orange, it was one of the components in it, along with 2,4,5-T. Most of the problems with the stuff came from the dioxin impurities associated with 2,4,5-T production--although 2,4-D can also be contaminated with dioxin in manufacturing.

I really hate the conflation here, but if they'd simply said "a component of Agent Orange," that's true...if still fear-mongering.

I'd avoid the stuff as much as possible just on principle, but we've actually never found a cancer risk definitively when studying the stuff fairly.

[Luminous Animal]

9. And the ad on DU that accompanies this post? Roundup.

[BrotherIvan]

10. Fuck Monsato!

The health crisis in this country that is coming will be epic. We must take back the safety of our food supply. NOW.