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By Mark Ruffalo
Monsanto chief is horrible ... And I got to tell him that to his face after his interview on CBS This Morning.
Approaching someone like this isn't really my thing. But being so well behaved all the time doesn't seem to be helping people. It made me really uncomfortable to do it. But that's how we change. We must become uncomfortable. We must act out of our comfort zones for things to change. We must call out the people who are doing horrible things when they do them.
Hugh Grant (Monsanto CEO not the actor) must be made to feel uncomfortable for what he allows his company to do in the world. That is why I told him what I did and why I am sharing it with you.
Before a segment I was doing for the movie Spotlight with Mike Rezendes on Dec. 2, I was waiting in the green room watching Grant worm his way through the strong questions he was getting from the CBS team. His handlers clearly have been working very hard with him to give him every slippery non-answer to every question he was asked. I was beside myself watching this guy who is responsible for so much misery and sickness throughout the world slime his way through his interview. I could not hold my tongue. He came through the Green Room door ready to do high fives with his press agent and I simply told him this:
"You are wrong. You are engaged in monopolizing food. You are poisoning people. You are killing small farms. You are killing bees. What you are doing is dead wrong."
A bead of sweat broke out on his head. "Well, what I think we are doing is good," Grant replied.
"I am sure you do," I told him.
When people get paid the kind of money he gets paid their thinking becomes incredibly clouded and the first thing to go is their morality.
He says Monsanto needs to do a better job with their messaging.
Hugh, it's not your messaging that makes you and your company horrible. It's the horrible stuff you guys do that makes you and your company horrible. People don't walk around making horrible stories up about good companies because they got nothing else better to do with their time. People like you and your company are horrible because ... you are horrible. No matter how much jumping around you do on morning shows (where no one can really nail you down for the horrible stuff you do), you will still always be horrible and people will always greet you the way I did, when you go around trying to cover up the fact that you are horrible.
Want to know more about the real Monsanto and Hugh Grant? Watch this:
There is a lot more horrible stuff to look at here:
Monsanto's greatest hit jobs.
In 2003, Monsanto settled a lawsuit for $700 million with 20,000 Anniston, Alabama residents who claimed that a Monsanto plant contaminated local rivers, lakes, soil and air with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Plaintiffs reported a range of health issues including cancer, birth defects and neurological disorders.
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