The world according to Monsanto...

[handy]

We would all be better off, if everyone watched this documentary:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4867493254318912106

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto_movie080307

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/the-world-according-to-monsanto-a-documentary-that-americans-wont-ever-see-full-video/

http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/L_aws_amp_P_olitics_42/091010012008_The_World_According_to_Monsanto.shtml

[Islington]

Mosanto gives my field a bad name. Biotechnology is massively useful if it isnt abused.

[handy]

Mosanto gives my field a bad name. Biotechnology is massively useful if it isnt abused.

I agree on both counts.

[Islington]

I agree on both counts.

The problem according to most of my professors is that the formalization of this field as a new branch of science, is relatively new, and as such there is very little regulation over the practitioners. Hell I have had to take 2 ethics classes where the professors have had to pretty much teach from personal feelings/experience.

[handy]

The problem according to most of my professors is that the formalization of this field as a new branch of science, is relatively new, and as such there is very little regulation over the practitioners. Hell I have had to take 2 ethics classes where the professors have had to pretty much teach from personal feelings/experience.

With Monsanto & other corporations using the revolving door to populate key bureaucratic positions in government with their high level personnel, it allows them to control government policy, most especially in the U.S. where the $ is god. Though in South America, it is only a matter of bribing high level government officials to pass the law giving GM the official ok.

It is a very sad situation, as the environmental damage being done is not being bought to the attention of many of the worlds population.

There is a quickly spreading green desert in South America.

[rootie]

Loading the movie now.

I also read this article (http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805) some time back, and it's sad to see progress being monopolized so heartlessly. And the question's always, "What's a consumer like me to do?"

Edit: Oh hey, at least they're not in our milk anymore. Just in the cereal, the cookies...

[handy]

Loading the movie now.

I also read this article (http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805) some time back, and it's sad to see progress being monopolized so heartlessly. And the question's always, "What's a consumer like me to do?"

Edit: Oh hey, at least they're not in our milk anymore. Just in the cereal, the cookies...

Thanks for the link; funny I had never thought that Vanity Fair was capable of printing intelligent material.

You learn something everyday. :-)

As far as the question, what's a consumer like me to do? I would think firstly to spread the word, I will write a letter to the editor of our local paper incorporating a URL or two. We then need to write our government representatives expressing the need for food labelling so we can choose not to buy G.M. products. We also need to have G.M. products outlawed as they are a crime against the biosphere. (just another one, I know)

It only takes education, so that people will make enough noise, for things to change.

[newbie2]

It only takes education, so that people will make enough noise, for things to change.
maybe a good tool is http://dotsub.com/ to subtitle it for other languages
;)