![]() Farmers in Uganda suffer the devastation of banana bacterial wilt, which threatens food security in the area while an existing GMO solution languishes in regulatory purgatory. Meanwhile, the injustices of anti-GMO sentiment continue. It was simply another manifestation of the usual suspects denigrating their most familiar whipping boys, distracting from the true complexity of health and environmental problems, and failing to address these problems in a meaningful way. But since this was a fake trial with no oversight from a legitimate court, there really was no verdict at all. The company rightfully did not participate in the mock international court, with one-sided testimonies that relied largely on theatrics, including skits, performances, and short films. ![]() Virtually none of Monsanto’s current employees were of working age during the Vietnam war. government contracted the former Monsanto and eight other companies to produce the defoliant, which the military deployed under its discretion, and 3. The Monsanto of today shares the same name but is a different entity than the company founded in 1901, 2. Though the government made an unconscionable mistake in wielding it with little consideration for long-term environmental and health effects, targeting Monsanto makes little sense. military used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. Take the tribunal’s assertion that Monsanto was complicit in “war crimes” because of its manufacture of a mixture -commonly known as "Agent Orange"-of two herbicides the U.S. These crops created with modern molecular genetic engineering are better known as 'GMOs'–a scientifically arbitrary term, because the vast majority of foods we consume, even organic foods, have had their genomes altered in the field or in a lab with techniques ranging from well-known selective breeding to lesser-known wide cross hybridization, which unnaturally 'forces' organisms of different species or genera to produce offspring.”Īnd though Monsanto is indeed a massive company among an elite group of corporations that dominate the agricultural genetic engineering space, a space that should have more participation from smaller entities, for the tribunal to promote misinformation about GMOs and about Monsanto does the truth no favors. “Most of the tribunal leaders have one thing in common: they are part of organic movement special interests, and they all demonize creators of Genetically Modified Organisms. Using Monsanto as a symbolic scapegoat, the tribunal leadership rehashed typical misinformation about the modern food system. Like I said, this was a kangaroo court (you can read my detailed criticisms in the 2015 story). The verdict, which judges presented publicly on April 18th, was summarized in an official document with a header in comic sans and the defendant’s name spelled with a dollar sign in place of the letter S, like this: MON$ANTO.
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