Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumSanders Claims CBS Canceled Agriculture Interview Because Monsanto Was “Threatening To Sue”
Asked for more details, his campaign did not immediately provide more more information about the claim.http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/sanders-claims-cbs-canceled-agriculture-interview-because-mo?utm_term=.vcWVwzgNZ#.qdpDzVQ9M
Bernie Sanders alleged that CBS once canceled an interview with him because Monsanto, the agricultural tech giant, had threatened to sue the network.
During a town hall event here on Saturday night, a voter asked Sanders about Monsanto. Questions about agribusiness and genetically-modified food are not unusual at Sanders events, but on Saturday night the Vermont senator claimed his criticism of the industry and Monsantos objection caused CBS to cancel an interview:
Monsanto is a very, very powerful corporation. They are one of the leaders in food technology and basically working hard to transform our food system. Let me tell you a funny story, or not so funny. In my state, a great dairy state, we have a lot of dairy cows. There was an effort to put what was called BGH, bovine growth hormone, which is a stimulant that makes cows produce cows more milk but is unhealthy. I was against that.
Ill never forget this. I was invited by CBS, not a small company, to appear on television to talk about why I was opposed to bovine growth hormone. CBS then called me up and said, Well, Monsanto is threatening to sue us, so we cant go on with it. They are very powerful.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)leftcoastmountains
(2,968 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)not want to admit it. But for me, denials by Monsanto and CBS would not mean much. I trust Bernie more than either CBS or Monsanto.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Bernie works very hard to keep from being put in a corner where he has to lie his way out. Most politicians aren't so careful and end up doing things like invoking a red herring like 9/11 to distract from her coziness with crooked Wall Street banks.
A corporate legal department is full of shysters who sold out right after graduating law school. They can't be trusted
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)I recall for years they got laws enforced that prevented labeling your product as NOT containing bGH. They said it implied it was unhealthy...which it was. You gotta be a special kind of scumbag to work for that company. Luckily those laws were found unconstitutional a decade later. CBS sucks too for being cowards. Reminds me of MSNBC chickening out for last minute cut of interview that said witnessed NSA data collected on politicians, journalists, judges, attorneys and generals to blackmail them and leverage votes or rulings or stories...anything you can think of.
roody
(10,849 posts)includes the words 'there is no difference between milk with or without rBGH. Now, as opposed to ten years ago, better milk is much easier to find.
polly7
(20,582 posts)As they spread their liver destroying pesticides and fertilizers and freak seeds all around the planet to farmers forced to abandon native farming practices and buy this shit they can't afford in the first place, let alone the pesticides and fertilizer to make it grow. Millions in India committing suicide, hundreds of thousands in South America and India and other places in the world coming up with kidney disease and failure, dying. Europe being forced under 'free trade' acts to allow it in after fighting it for so many years.
Fuck Monstanto and its quest to rule the world's food supply.
Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Monsanto (and GE and Dow and DuPont and RJ Reynolds ...) are well-used over the decades to cover-ups and getting tenured professors tarred and blacklisted, well before GMOs were even a gleam in Buckminster Fuller's eye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
you know why investigating ball lightning completely and utterly ruined anyone's career (until they quietly admitted the damn thing in 2007, proclaimed The System Works, and roundfiled the issue?) not because it would've threatened paradigms, not because it was "woo until it wasn't," but because admitting a topic that's already been condemned would expose the fact that whole fields weren't considered scientific until one day they were (I mean, psychology and surgery were absolutely beyond the pale), that the "bastion model" of science is pretty porous