Reply #16: Monsanto [View All]

It is fascinating, with dozens of equally "evil" corporations involved in the food industry, and with it being so obvious that we have a systemic problem, that all of the attention is on Monsanto.

Take down Monsanto, and the same investors, the same mangers, the same board members, the same executives will set up shop under a different brand name and do the exact same things. Of course.

If you ran a right wing think tank and wanted to make sure that no mass opposition to the corporate takeover of our food supply would develop, how would you go about it? Make one corporation the evil one and rant about them all day long, as though they were the exception and not the rule so that people do not see the bigger picture; encourage people to make different personal lifestyle choices, and buy different products - "organic? You want organic? We got your organic right here, suckers!" is what the corporations are saying now; whip up fear campaigns about trivial and irrelevant things; plant obviously absurd and easily debunked ideas into the liberal and organic literature to discredit the entire movement.

That is what I would do. That is what they are doing.