Forum Post: Day of action against Monsanto. Shut them down.
Posted 12 years ago on Jan. 28, 2012, 7:49 p.m. EST by occupythewest
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I am working on setting up a day of protest against monsanto at as many of their sites as possible, would anyone like to help create a list of addresses for the various sites out there? I am working on the west coast. Here are my links.
http://www.facebook.com/events/162378010539412/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shut-Down-Monsanto/157108914401335?sk=page_getting_started#!/pages/Shut-Down-Monsanto/157108914401335?sk=wall
MonSATAN is the natural result of capitalism run wild, of allowing corpoRATS the freedom of sociopathic action. In the end only the biggest, most rabid big dogs are left standing.
MonSATAN views farmers simply as one more farm animal. When small and competitive, businesses provide services and needed products to the farmer/buyer. Through the formation of monopolies and cartels they end up controlling prices and competition. Through the formation of monster corpoRATS, such as Monsanto, they become market dictators and masters of the farmer/buyers, whom they originally served.
A dog eat dog economy is not physics, but the results of allowing one is. Sure as water runs downhill, MonSATAN is the result of an unhinged economy.
A healthy capitalist economy requires businesses never exceed the size needed for competition. A healthy democracy requires that power centers never be allowed to grow to the point of outweighing democracy itself.
It amazes me that Frankenfood is being ignored by this movement. Guess they haven't seen Food, Inc?
They didn't cause the 2008 financial crisis and the harsh income inequality which is what this movement is all about.
Monsanto is yet another corporate conglomerate that has contributed to the current economic crisis on many fields..no pun intended. There is a very cozy relationship between Monsanto and government that goes way back ( Rumsfeld and Bush too) I support organic farmers but Monsanto makes it very difficult for organic farmers to get certification by buying up surrounding land and contaminating organic crops. Monsanto also puts farmers out of business by contaminating their fields with their ' patented' seed and drift from the excessive herbicides and other chemicals they apply to their crops. Many farmers have been fined into bankruptcy and lost everything they owned thanks to Monsanto. The degradation of the world's seed supply will have dire consequences on us and the environment. We are already suffering the consequences. France, Peru, Hungary are taking a stand against Monsanto but I doubt America will ever do that since we are not a society that focuses on prevention. We tend to ONLY react once there is a SEVERE crisis. Unfortunately, in this case, waiting for the current crisis to escalate any further may be deadly.
The Documentaries: ' The Corporation" and " King Corn" as well as Food Inc ( and many others) explain how Monsanto contributes to the current economic crisis, our health, the health of the environment and globalization. A person needs to broaden their scope of understanding to include the economic outcomes of every single one of Monsanto's behaviors. It can be quite overwhelming to analyze and realize how everything is affected by agricultural practices around the world.
It's still not the focus, the focus is on banks
When we say ' banks' or wall street, we are covering a lot of ground- a lot to comprehend. The banks are just the financial sector of the larger picture. Big Ag is tied to the banks, which is tied to the fed regulators, tied to retailers, tied to food supply, which actually indirectly affects the housing market etc... Our current system resembles multi-level marketing where all the money trickles up, not down and affects every facet of our lives. The majority of Americans today are focused on the banks and housing crisis because they are so conditioned to accept tiny soundbites as adequate information without any deeper critical thinking. Most folks don't actually draw little flow charts to see exactly how the banks affect their food supply or how Bush's open borders policy would affect our food safety, nutritional integrity and hence, their personal health. The problem today isn't the banks or the housing market. the problem today is the lack of good character in lieu of greed that corrupts everything. We can't make people grow a conscience, we can't make people grow character but we can force them to comply with laws that protect the good values of our democratic constitution by regulating them.
Either way, they are not the primary targets, maybe afterwards...
The focus is on the 99.9% Monsanto is destroying our world and poisoning us.
Whatever
It's all a cloth woven from a single thread. Or is this the realization that you, Spade, are hoping doesn't spread? The powers-that-be certainly are afraid of loose ends being pulled, the whole edifice of rot would be exposed.
Well, we must start unraveling part of the cloth before we can unravel it all.
Tell that to the family farmer being forced to buy Monsanto seeds. Or the small livestock operation being squeezed by Perdue, or the other 'meat' companies. Not many left. Our food supply is being monoplized by the likes of Monsanto and corporate farming.
You really should watch Food, Inc. Food is a tad more important than money! Corn is in everything you eat. Ever notice how autism has become more prevalent? Gotta be the food supply. But I guess it's not very sexy to occupy a corporate farm?
FF, it would be good to place signage, (GMO), at the roadside farms, known to grow it. Those that occupy the homes nearby shouldn't be kept in the dark of the pollution concerns.
I've seen food Inc and it is irrelevant to the economic crises
Perhaps not YOUR economic crisis....
Maybe they a fucked over a couple of Indian farmers but the majority of Americans are angry at banks for the economic crises
Important Action Item: Support California's Ballot Initiative to Label GMO's!
In 2007, then-Presidential candidate Obama promised to "immediately" require GM labeling if elected. So far, nothing of the sort has transpired
Fortunately, 24 US states have (as part of their state governance) something called the Initiative Process, where residents can bring to ballot any law they want enacted, as long as it has sufficient support. California has been busy organizing just such a ballot initiative to get mandatory labeling for genetically engineered foods sold in their state. The proposed law will be on the ballot for 2012.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/CAinitiativelanguage.pdf
Michigan and Washington are also starting similar campaigns.
Since California is the 8th largest economy in the world, a win for the California Initiative would be a huge step forward, and would affect ingredients and labeling nation-wide. Last month, a coalition of consumer, public health and environmental organizations, food companies, and individuals submitted the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act to the State Attorney General. Now, they need 800,000 signatures to get the Act on next year's ballot.
I urge you to get involved and help in any way you can.
http://www.organicconsumersfund.org/label/
If you live in California, volunteer to gather petition signatures. If you live outside of California, please donate to help support this Initiative and spread the word to everyone you know in California. Be assured that what happens in California will affect the remainder of the U.S., so please support this important state initiative, even if you do not live there!
Banned in Germany, But You're Probably Still Eating It
Monsanto, the world leader in genetically modified (GM) crops and seeds, has been named the worst company of 2011 by Natural Society -- for "threatening both human health and the environment."
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/31/monsanto-worst-company-of-2011.aspx?e_cid=20120131_DNL_art_1
Monsanto to Face Biopiracy Charges in India
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/31/monsanto-to-face-biopiracy-charges-in-india.aspx?e_cid=20120131_DNL_art_2
"The World According to Monsanto" shows some history and warns about their faulty re$earch being sold as food.
If you can't trust corporations, who can you trust? The FDA?
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Modern $cience, Federal deregulation, corporate / politician network$, and a public relations storyline that they are the answer to world hunger. Really?
Biotech should be studied, but the public should demand transparency to the safety concerns. The rush of public and grant money being used by universities to develop products for them, should be tied to real regulations. Monsanto is one of many companies in the "fields", but it is the poster child for Wall Street greed at the expense of the 99%. Other companies are avoiding publicity, but have ramped up research and product development, to take advantage of the current deregulation, to get their product$ swallowed. The FDA is broken.
The world is watching the U$A helping the biotech industries destroy the world's health, environment, and farming systems, while usurping the people of the world's political rights. Foreign aid and policy is being used as blackmail, to force trade law changes, despite public rejection of GMO seeds, food, and their necessary chemicals.
The U$A government has volunteered its citizens as their main guinea pig. The $cientists, and biotech industry proponents can afford to buy the alternative organic, and imported food, for their households. They know better than to join the "test group". It's a new field for the medical experts, since it's their job to find the cause of the increase of disease, in the last few decades.
The inclusion of GMO corporations being a part of the focus of OWS will become more clear, especially considering the latest appointment to head the FDA.
What does a day of action accomplish?
Essentially the same thing as protesting for a day at a bank, to raise public awareness ad direct energy and focus at another part of the system controlling us ad the market.
Interesting that in the eighteen comments below, nobody gave you any addresses. I don't do FaceBook but : Monsanto World Headquarters is at 800 North Lindbergh Blvd. Creve Coeur (St. Louis county), Missouri 63124. You may want to postpone until later in the year for this protest and make it a worldwide protest. You probably already have this link but here it is anyway, just in case:
http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/pages/our-locations.aspx
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