{"id":11369,"date":"2013-10-13T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11369"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:05:30","slug":"the-worlds-most-dangerous-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/the-worlds-most-dangerous-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"The World’s Most Dangerous Corporation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the first to admit that, when it comes to the relative merits of GMOs in food,  I have about as much expertise as a Republican Congressperson has about the Constitution: none.  But even I know that Monsanto\u2019s horrors extend well beyond GMOs, so when I came across an excellent article on that subject, I felt obligated to share it with you.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"13Monsanto\"<\/p>\n

Marking World Food Day this year is a grassroots effort called March Against Monsanto<\/a> with protests planned in more than 400 cities in over 50 nations<\/a>. But who is Monsanto, and why should you know about them?<\/p>\n

Monsanto has been around over a hundred years, and while it has a history of questionable ethics and practice\u2014including helping to create and hide health risks associated with DDT and Agent Orange<\/a>\u2014its more recent trend toward pushing unregulated and unlabeled Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into our food supply is what’s really alarming. For this Monsanto has earned the dubious distinction as the most \u201cEvil Corporation of the Year<\/a>\u201d by NaturalNews readers.<\/p>\n

The hardest thing about writing what\u2019s wrong with Monsanto is knowing where to start. You may not think you are familiar with them, but you are. You probably eat Monsanto created GMOs every day. The company creates harsh pesticides that are designed to kill everything natural they touch, the most popular of which is called \u201cRoundup.\u201d  The company then creates GMOs that are unaffected by this specific poison (in the case of Roundup these are called \u201cRoundup Ready\u201d) so that farmers can blanket their fields and kill weeds, pests and everything else. The company has pushed hard to monopolize strategic markets<\/a> and now controls 93% of the soybean, canola seed, and cotton crops, as well as 86% of corn crops. Monstanto has consolidated its position by creating \u2018suicide seeds\u2019 which do not reproduce and forces the farmers to return to Monsanto each year. The GMO suicide crops also cross pollinate with non GMO crops, forcing more farmers who may have initially held out to also rely on Monsanto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What are the long term effects of consuming GMOs? Truthfully, no one knows. Monsanto created the first GMO in 1985 and only within the past few years has their use become widespread in our food supply. In essence we are all unwittingly participating in the trial of long-term health effects. Monsanto argues that because their GMO corn has been manufactured to have roughly the same amount of vitamins and minerals as natural corn then it must be safe. Meanwhile, scientific studies done over an entire lifespan of rats have shown that GMO corn causes tumors, organ failure, cancer and premature death<\/a>. The widespread adoption of Monsanto’s products has also been linked with significant nitrogen run-off<\/a> which is creating dead zones in the oceans and an alarming mass die off of bees<\/a>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Is Monsanto the most dangerous corporation in the world?  I\u2019ll leave that for you to decide, but it\u2019s up there near the top.  At the very least, Monsanto must be stopped from achieving their goal of controlling the entire world\u2019s seed supply and all foods containing GMOs must be labeled.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the first to admit that, when it comes to the relative merits of GMOs in food,  I have about as much expertise as a Republican Congressperson has about the Constitution: none.  But even I know that Monsanto\u2019s horrors extend well beyond GMOs, so when I came across an excellent article on that subject, I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}