The World According to Monsanto
File Under: Politics
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
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Monsanto is something like “Penguin” in the Batman movies. They are so outlandishly evil they resemble cartoon characters….
When & who will stop them?
I just can’t cry hard enough for all this horror.
When & who will stop them is us. We need to take personal responsibility for this world. We need to engage each other in our communities and get involved and take action.
This level of corruption is within all the power centers of the world.
In 1998 my son began working for a bio-pesticide (as well as bio-insecticides, biomycocides etc) Reasearch and Development company as an Assistant Researcher for Agraquest in Davis, California that was founded by a former MONSANTO scientist, Pam Marrone. In seeing this film I now understand why we have been having such a difficult time in getting Federal and/or State actions in getting to te truth as to what happened to my son while working for Agraquest and the required medical attention he needs. After 5 months and 9 days after he began work at Agraquest my son ended up in an emergency care medical clinic with bloody pus draining from his nose and half of his teeth and face had become numb. Within 16 days he had an emergency sinus surgery (the first of four and the last was in 2006). Throughout the years his immune system was no longer intact as he had stopped producing the required amount of B-Cells. For 3 years, every 28 days, he was hooked up to an IV Infusion pump for approximately 7 hours each time. Agraquest searches “around the globe” for the “novel” microorganism to be used as a company product. Soil was smuggled in illegally in this search for the novel microorganism. Out of the “known” 23,000 microorganisms listed by Agraquest as being in their culture collection only 27 have been deemed “product candidates”. What was brought into this country by Agraquest and their “microbe hunters” is really UNKNOWN as Agraquest will not honor requests for discovery. I have contacted many Federal and state agencies, one being Henry Waxman, Chair of the United States House of Representatives - Government Oversight and Reform Committee about a product that my son was indeed exposed to while he worked for the company. This product only received a Conditional Time-Limited Regaistration in 2000 from the EPA on submissions from Agraquest in 4/1999 and 6/1999. The EPA themselves found fault with the product that now contained a “new active ingredient”: microbial contamination as well as mortality to fish, shrimp and honey bees. My son’s health, throughout the years has declined considerably and most of his organs are being affected including his heart, spleen, GI tract as well as his upper respiratory system. Since Agraquest, although denied by the company, does indeed modify microorganisms genetically, it is unknown just what is in my son, although 19 microorganisms were identified in either his blood, sputum cultures and IgG levels which show up to HIGH POSITIVE with reference to amount of exposure he had to these microorganisms. Each of these microorganisms can be traced back to Agraquest in either their patents, Agraquest scientist listed as “inventors” on other companies patents as well as Agraquest products themselves. Not only should the world population be concerned about GMO’S with respect to genetically modified seeds, but everyone should also be VERY concerned as to what bio-pesticides, bio-insectidices, bio-mycocides etc. are being put on our food crops, livestock crops and ornamental in the form of hand spraying and/or arial spraying. Also, these genetically modified microorganisms, some of being foreign to United States soils are now in our ecosystem that will be there for God only knows how many generations to come. WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ARE IN BIG TROUBLE.
I saw this documentary a while ago and I was shocked because this is the story, scientist predicted at the time DNA en gentechnologie was at the basics.
They predicted this kind of criminal behaviour by corporations but they told something more horrific.They told that once insurancecompany’s knew how your genetic structure was build up, they immediatly started to illiminate your right to get treatment for the deseases you COULD get in the future or pay a heavy amount of isurancefee with al lot of restrictions.
The proffesor at that time and I don’t remember his name, but he was talking in a tv program in the seventees about Genetics, told that as oon the doctors could tell iff you’re child would be born with the Downsyndroom or even other genetic diseasses like breastcancer or any other form of cancer, they would abort the child before birth to spare the cost later made as a patient.
I also seem to think a lot about a movie I once saw and looks terrifying simulair to the things that are happening today.
The movie was called Soylent Green, was it a warning because at the end of the movie, the headquaracter Edward G. Robinson reports himself in for a free euthanasie.
Because he believed being dead was much eassier to deal with then a seeing a world going down the drain. strong story, but it intriges me.Get those criminals before a court and convict them for genocide against Humanity.Interogate them and use another chemical product.Torture them by putting LSD in their food and let them heve a few bad trips and then lock them up forever and give them a bit of agent orange everyday, so they die slowly.
If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us. - George H.W. Bush to journalist Sarah McClendon, December 1992
” Revolving Door ” It seems that there is no door at all , nor wall , because they are all in the same room , creating the policies that harm many people . I also read Monsanto is completely taking over the SEED business in Iraq and unfortunately for Iraqis who were one of the first Farmers in the World , are now being bombarded with the infamous ” terminator seed “, even A non-collage guy like my self can see that a SEED that expires after a year , is a complete disadvantage to Iraqi farmers, who have collected seeds for thousands of years in that region .
NOW, they have to buy MORE and MORE , have to use specific pesticides , can get sued for using crops that have been contaminated by M. by accident and so M. has a complete control of Iraqi Farming .
And remember a conspiracy can be 2 guys planning and robbing a convenience store . So how is it , politicians in collusion with Monsanto . along with many other Corps. can get together create laws with proving claims or hiding harmful data , all based on what the Corps say . And the end result is a destruction of choice , ) Indians used over a hundred types of CORN ) yet we get ONE , Sweet or Yellow .
And worst the DEATHS and Deformities is UNFORGIVABLE , UNFORGIVABLE and this Corporatism or Fascism needs to be exposed . THEY ARE CRIMINALS .
One thing people should be doing is to stock up on heirloom seeds, i.e. seeds that aren’t genetically tampered with. If you raise a garden with heirloom seeds, the plants will reproduce true and renew your seed supply (as long as you’re a fair distance from where any genmod plants are growing) with each crop. There are seed companies that specialize in heirloom seeds - a google search will find you several.
Of course, one other thing that needs to happen is the prosecution of corporations committing crimes, but if we’re waiting for that we might as well sit down and get comfortable, because we’ll be waiting a loooooooong time as long as they are buying and selling politicians.
i have been involved in the landscape industry since 1972 and have been regularly applying round-up since it became available. i also happen to be the largest consumer of milk in my family. this documentary is both eye-opening and terrifying.
I downloaded the video to preserve it against Monsanto lawyer’s suppression but unfortunately it’s an unrecognizable “.flv” format. Does anyone know anything about this ?
You need to download a free FLV Player (Windows Media Player won’t recognize the file)
Thanks Taro, I’ll search for it. Another question, wouldn’t it be possible to have a full screen option such as the one in YouTube ? I’ve watched the version posted there and the full screen viewing capability adds more impact but the 10 minute segment limitation creates an impairment. I want everyone to see this video in its full intensity, and every second of it is precious, so I’m spreading the word everyway I can.
I just discovered that to switch to full screen all you have to do is click on the + icon at the bottom sidebar !
I’ve also downloaded the free FLV player and it works perfectly, so I now have the full video preserved in my computer, in case M’s lawyers succeed in suppressing it everywhere on the Inernet. This video is precious, every second of it, and everyone must see it !!!
It’s exactly the same as the entertainment business and the war business - except you don’t need music to eat…