Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear

Vanity Fair | May, 2008

[dickmc]

Major six page article covering essentially three areas:

* GM crops, extremely aggressive law suits, suing wrong farmers, buying up nonGM seed suppliers, etc.

* Dioxin production, trying to get navy subs to use PCB hydraulic fluids, Nitro W.Va. plant explosion, hiding risk from victims, etc.

* Manufacturing rGBH cow hormone, suing farmers advertising milk "From cows not treated with rGBH", recent PA milk advertising ban on mentioning rGBH where E-mail protest caused fast Eddie to reverse, etc.

Interesting and worth reading..... but can not post excerpt due to Vanity Fair restriction. Article is Monsanto's Harvest of Fear at Vanity Fare here.

[rellimpank]

—yeah—it’s probably causing global warming ,too—the part that isn’t Bushes fault—

[dickmc]

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear, rellimpank wrote: —yeah—it’s probably causing global warming ,too—the part that isn’t Bushes fault—

I don't know about that. But, I have never liked their corporate ethics from what I have heard about them.

[ClearCase_guy]

Fearful Item #1: The world faces massive food shortages. Millions may die!

Fearful Item #2: GM crops may increase yields, but at what cost? We need to return to traditional farming methods!

[allmendream]

If G.M. crops are so terrible why do the farmers keep stealing the seeds to get around the patent?

From Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution:

Congress shall have power...

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

[secretagent]

Montsanto wants to prevent dairymen from stating that their cows don't get a supplemental hormone, "rGBH".

Corporate thugs.