It’s official! The Swiss research firm Covalence has released its annual ranking of the ethical performance of multinational corporations and Monsanto is now the most unethical company in the world! The same company that brought you those crazy chemical concoctions like Agent Orange, PCBs and DDT is now in control of your food supply. From cows treated with recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone who get sick but produce more milk to suing farmers for having Monsanto patented seeds that blew into their fields, Monsanto food has become the norm in America.
The thing that really freaks me out about it is that this is so Damien: Omen II. Thorn Industries was going to use food to control the world and Monsanto seems to be following in their footsteps. It’s kind of like a story I wrote for a fiction class in college where a P.E. Teacher is fired for being overweight. At the time, that was a crazy idea but now we have a U.S. Surgeon General candidate, Regina Benjamin, who is being challenged for exactly that reason. Maybe she’s fat for the same reason that most of her fellow citizens are, the factory-farmed and mass produced food stuff we’re offered in stores is full of fat and salt and sugar.
I'm not asking farmers to break the corn habit overnight but if the government would quit subsidizing particular crops we might be able to set up a farming community that doesn't depend on chemicals and fertilizer to make a profit.People have to make a decision. Either you want fresh food that costs extra and takes a little more preparation time or you'll settle for some genetically-modified, factory-farmed mound of food stuff. Somehow I think Monsanto's combo of convenience and carcinogens will win over the public every time.
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