However, according Tamayo, the corporation didn't recognize any obligation to convince consumers that their products were good for years; instead, they focused on the farmers. This allowed environmental organizations to take over the debate.
"We made a mistake; it's just that simple. For 18 years we didn't explain (to the consumer) what is biotechnology, what's it for and why it's safe."
What convoluted bullshit, at the highest level of incomprehensibly poor logic! Monsanto has second rate minds in their legal team, judging from the recent decision in Fresno California, which I recently wrote about here at OEN:
Mandatory Carcinogen warning label on Monsanto's Roundup weed killer: Coming Soon in California!
also: Mexican Avocados vs. US GMO Potatoes: USDA's Vindictive Response Part of the Wall against Mexico?
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The United States Department of Agriculture, like a small child with a new toy called Genetic Modification, has been aiding and abetting the development of Monsanto for many decades.
The REAL mistake lies in the creation of Monsanto as a whole, rather than their failure to try to brainwash the public more openly. Obviously these modified corn seeds could contaminate heirloom varieties, and that the pesticides used to protect GMO crops are harmful to beneficial insects like bees -- which have been dying off in record numbers.
Corn was invented in Mexico from strains of grasses 8-10,000 years ago, so of course Mexican corn growers are fiercely resistant and suspicious of these monstrous corporate lies!
Community advocates state that Mexico's 59 varieties of native corn will be at risk if Monsanto is allowed to take hold of the corn market.
Monsanto has ruined agriculture in many nations
Look at India to see the effects of Monsanto on agriculture. Farmer suicide rates in India have skyrocketed, and the primary causes is the biotech giant's seed monopoly. Things changed when Monsanto entered India. In 2013, they reportedly controlled some 95 percent of the cotton seed market in the country.
What about seeds? Seeds had always been a resource for farmers, but Monsanto claimed them as "intellectual property," and began collecting royalties on their products.
Monsanto also sought out to change farming practices on the whole, eliminating open-pollinated cotton seeds, demanding monoculture farming techniques, and even subverting India's own regulatory processes.
Monsanto even used public resources to promote its non-renewable hybrids and GMOs, with the help of "public private partnerships."
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