The next few posts are my embryonic attempt to document the absolute connection between the social-moral, cultural-spiritual-emotional ---and the political --governmental---corporate worlds. Now is the time we must be involved...even if involvement means we are just "Ablaza"....AWARE...BE AWARE.The first one is here....MONSANTO---the chemical corporation.
If you care about our earth...watch this video...and tell all you know
"There's nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it - it's strategic. It's more powerful than bombs. It's more powerful than guns.
This is the best way to control the populations of the world." -Vandana Shiva The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the "revolving door". One example is Michael Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to Monsanto, becoming the company's vice president for public policy.
Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market. Monsanto's long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence. (Excerpt from greenpeace.org) Please visit the official website for more information: http://www.arte.tv/monsanto
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I always knew that Round-up was evil, but to now have the knowledge that Monsanto has infiltrated the entire planet's crops with this poison horrifies me. As for the GE seeds that they are systematically forcing the farmers to use for their crops is a form of rape. The seed is Spirit's gift of sustenance in it's purest form for humankind and animals alike. Who do these powers that be think they are to mess with Spirit??? And all for the almighty dollar... To know that they will get their due is small comfort as they continue to control our rights to live off the land. What can be done??? My prayers go out to those beautiful farmers and families who have been personally affected. Mituye oyasin (we are all related)
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