Monsanto Fires Back at Neil Young's Scathing New Album

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/30861-monsanto-fires-back-at-neil-youngs-scathing-new-album

After delivering some bad news to presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop rockin’ to his Freedom song, looks like Neil Young has also upset some of his fans over at Monsanto.

In a statement to Billboard, Monsanto is letting it be known that its feelings have been hurt by the rock legend.

“Many of us at Monsanto have been and are fans of Neil Young,” the company said. “Unfortunately, for some of us, his current album may fail to reflect our strong beliefs in what we do every day to help make agriculture more sustainable. We recognize there is a lot of misinformation about who we are and what we do—and unfortunately several of those myths seem to be captured in these lyrics.”

As we previously reported, the 69-year-old musician is releasing a new album on June 29 called The Monsanto Years targeting the chemical giant’s use of genetically modified seeds and pesticides.

Young sings on the title track: “The farmer knows he’s got to grow what he can sell, Monsanto, Monsanto / So he signs a deal for GMOs that makes life hell with Monsanto, Monsanto / Every year he buys the patented seeds / Poison-ready they’re what the corporation needs, Monsanto.” Take a listen below.

[Cleita]

1. I think Monsanto and the other mega-agros are going to have to be fought at a local level.

The thing is, all I have to say is:

"Rock on Neil".

[pogglethrope]

2. I worked for Monsanto for more than twenty years.

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It was once a very good company to work for. Those days more than twenty years ago, before all the businesses other than agriculture were dropped.

[pnwmom]

3. Welcome to DU, pogglethrope!

Unfortunately, a lot of companies have gone downhill over the decades, at least in terms of how they view their responsibilities to their employees and the larger world.

[delrem]

4. A problem with Monsanto is the meta-institutionalizing of agricultural economics.

Patenting of genomes.
Monopolizing of crop output in a way that's totally different than, and even fundamentally opposed to, traditional farming mores.
Traditionally farmers kept some of their crop for seed, so they were self-sustaining and owing to nobody and could survive what the world threw at them.
Monsanto puts a meta-level on that -- a capitalist and controlling level that I hear is even protected by the TPP.
Whatever, it's a level of control that never before existed in the long history of agriculture.

[hifiguy]

11. Predatory capitalism corrupts everything it touches. nt

[bvar22]

8. Was Monsanto manufacturing "Agent Orange" back then?

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[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. this is going to be a record to buy, if not so much enjoy.

I've got the same feeling about many book purchases over the past 15 years.

[GreatGazoo]

6. 20 minutes of truth:

[Scuba]

7. So Monsanto's whole mission is to "make agriculture more sustainable." Yeah, right.

[LWolf]

9. I haven't heard the album, but

that must mean Young's doing it right.

[bvar22]

10. Oh Yeah....

Monoculture and tons of poison per acre are "sustainable"!
Lying bunch of creeps.

The worst part is that Monsanto has completely captured the FDA (Michael Taylor et al)
and at the USDA, Tom "Mr Monsanto" Vilsack (Iowa...Monsanto Corn and Concentration Camp Pigs).

Both are Obama appointees.