This article is so appropos everyone to read, and especially for the effort to ban aspartame that we are sending it out to a lot of Hawaii victims of aspartame poisoning, given that Monsanto lobbyists in Honolulu have been working in the background, covertly, to kill the Bill to Ban Aspartame!
Many years ago, Monsanto bought the patent and manufactured NutraSweet. Maybe they are concerned about squelching any and all product liability questions that might ensue from legislation? Monsanto is all over Hawaii with seed experimentation which puts at risk Native Hawaiian agricultural genetics; their on-going history manufacturing horrible and deadly chemicals speaks for itself. Please forward this to your more discerning friends, colleagues, family, and neighbors, especially those who live in Hawaii and are otherwise being kept totally in the dark about these issues, especially if all they read is the Honolulu Advertiser, the largest paper on the Hawaii Islands. One also must realize that Obama worked for the law firm that always defended NutraSweet.....Thank you, Linn Cohen-Cole, and keep up the good work!
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Dear Hillary:
The News Hour piece said Monsanto, a US agricultural corporation, hired Bollywood actors to sell illiterate farmers Bt (genetically engineered) cotton seeds, promising they'd get rich from big yields. The expensive seeds needed expensive fertilizer and pesticides (Monsanto's) and irrigation. There is no irrigation there. Crops failed. Farmers had immense debt and couldn't collect seeds to try again because Monsanto seeds are” patented" as "intellectual property").
"Genetic Engineering is often justified as a human technology, one that feeds more people with better food. Nothing could be further from the truth. With very few exceptions, the whole point of genetic engineering is to increase sales of chemicals and bio-engineered products to dependent farmers."
David Ehrenfield: Professor of Biology, Rutgers University.
Monsanto has a $10 million budget and 75 person staff to prosecute farmers. Since the late 1990s (as industrial agriculture took hold in India), 166,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide and 8 million have left the land (P. Sainath, The Hindu). Farmers in Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia, South America, Central America and here, have all protested Monsanto and genetic engineering.
What does this have to do with you?
Your Orwellian-named "Rural Americans for Hillary" were Monsanto's lobbyists. My greater concern, though, is you former-employer, Rose Law Firm, representing Monsanto, world's largest GE (GE - genetic engineering) corporation; Tyson, world's largest meat producer; Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. Rose is home to Industrial FOOD. Rose's cozy connections: Jon Jacoby, senior at the Stephens Group - one of the largest shareholders of Tyson, Wal-Mart, DP&L - is C.O.B. of DP&L, arranged the Wal-Mart deal. Jackson Stephens' Stephens Group staked Walton, financed Tyson. Monsanto bought DP&L. Wal-Mart’s board invited you on, Tyson executive helped you do $100,000 trade just before Bill' governorship,Jackson Stephens backed Bill for Governor, then President (donating $100,000).
Monsanto made Agent Orange, PCBs, nuclear weapons components, pesticides, and with that diverse background in death, are now "doing" food. During Bill’s term in office:USDA immediately significantly weakened chicken waste/contamination standards, easing Tyson's poultry-factory expansion.
1. Monsanto people were put in charge of food.
2. FDA okayed Monsanto's rBGH (bovine growth hormone), first GE-product ever approved.
3. Despite bovine illness/death, FDA didn't recall or warn.
4. When dairymen labeled milk "rBGH-free," USDA threatened confiscation.
5. Organic food was the last way around unknown danger. FDA tried to close that escape with new "organic" standards, to include: genetic engineering of plants/animals, food irradiation, sewage sludge fertilizer. USDA backed down from response 20 times greater than to anything before.
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