Monsanto is still evil

[Lady Henevere]

Look what I found on the facebook link:
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/default.asp
All open pollinated heirloom seeds! I'm determined to start saving my own.

Bountiful Gardens has a great newsletter -- if you sign up you can get it by e-mail. I was just working on my spring order from them over the weekend. Seeds of Change (http://www.seedsofchange.com/) is also good -- and they have a beautiful catalog.

While it's not exactly a seed sit-in (although I would love to attend one of those!), check out the Seed Savers Exchange at http://www.seedsavers.org/ It is "gardeners passing out open pollinated seed packets . . . maybe even seed they saved themselves," as Drake put it. I see Seed Savers as kind of the anti-Monsanto. From the website:

Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. We are a non-profit organization of gardeners dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.

 

[abifae]

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[dragonlaurel]

I found a study on the effects of eating GMO corn. It's great reading for statistical analysis majors and bio-scientists but they fed 3 varieties on GMO corn to rats and found liver and kidney damage- especially to the male rats. They fed 6 varieties of NON-GMO corn to control groups. It looks like they were very professional about this study to try to just get the truth.

Here's the link:
http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm

 

[noobiechickenlady]

File: Print
I'm going to have to read this a couple of times. Thanks for the link!

 

[sylvie]

I would love a scented oil that really did smell like fresh mown grass

I didn't see this earlier.
FWIW: Sweet Woodruff'; Asperula odorata, has the scent of newly mown hay. I stuff little pillows with dried leaves. Maybe the essential oil is the same.
Jelly Bellies has a jelly bean the taste and smell of newly mown grass.
Of course it is artificial but they nailed it perfectly,lol.

 

[Wifezilla]

"For the first time in the world, we've proven that GMO are neither sufficiently healthy nor proper to be commercialized ... Each time, for all three GMOs, the kidneys and liver, which are the main organs that react to a chemical food poisoning
, had problems," said Gilles-Eric Sralini, an expert member of the Commission for Biotechnology Reevaluation.

The researchers based their analyses on the data supplied by Monsanto to health authorities to obtain the green light for commercialization, but they draw different conclusions after new statistical calculations.

http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Safety/gmo/the_health_hazards_of_gm_corn_0901100909.html

 

[k0xxx]

Evil Monsanto Finally Reaping Its Just Desserts?

Here is an article about Monsanto's current woes, including the drop in their stock prices by 42%. Awww

Good News - Evil Monsanto Finally Reaping Its Just Desserts

 

[Wifezilla]

awwww... poor babies

 

[valmom]

Yea! According to the non-GMO shopping tips, Lindt chocolate is safe still. The GMO sugar beets are going to hide in a lot of foods (and candies) once it takes off

 

[colowyo0809]

Took this from the website, and reposted it on FB. I get more and more angry with these types of people
Monsanto Monstrosities Swept Under the Rug
Why is Monsanto top on my hit list of evil corporations? Here is just a short list of the many improprieties and outright crimes committed by Monsanto:

Suing small farmers for patent infringement after Monsanto's GM seeds spread wildly into surrounding farmers' fields, contaminating their conventional crops

Secretly discharging PCB-laden toxic waste into an Alabama creek, and dumping millions of pounds of PCBs into open-pit landfills for decades after PCBs were banned in the US for being a possible carcinogen.

Being found guilty of bribery to bypass Indonesian law requiring an environmental assessment review for its genetically engineered cotton.

Last year, the supreme court of France found Monsanto guilty of falsely advertising its herbicide Roundup as "biodegradable" and "environmentally friendly." Scientific evaluation discovered that glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, is acutely toxic to fish and birds and can kill beneficial insects and soil organisms that maintain ecological balance. Additionally, the surfactant ingredient in Roundup is more acutely toxic than glyphosate itself, and the combination of the two is even more toxic.

In 2007, the South African Advertising Standards Authority also found Monsanto guilty of lying when advertising that "no negative reactions to Genetically Modified food have been reported."

According to one EPA scientist, Monsanto doctored studies and covered-up dioxin contamination of a wide range of its products. She concluded that the company's behaviour constituted "a long pattern of fraud."

In 1999, the New York Times exposed that Monsanto's PR firm, Burson Marsteller, had paid fake "pro-GMO" food demonstrators to counteract a group of anti-biotech protesters outside a Washington, DC FDA meeting.

This should give you a clue as to why I'm thrilled that Monsanto appears to be falling out of favor, at least in the stock market realm