Jim Hightower: Monsanto pays for its arrogance

Monsanto pays for its arrogance

Lowdown
by Jim Hightower


As an old TV ad used to say: "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."

Monsanto Company, however, still has not taken that smart advice. This giant chemical maker became a veritable Frankenstein in the 1990s, genetically engineering new organisms in an effort to fool Mother Nature for fun and profit.

But Momma got mad — and now she's kicking Monsanto's butt all across the country.

Here's the background: Monsanto marketed a weedkiller labeled "Roundup" to farmers. But the weedkiller also tended to kill the crops. Thus, Monsanto's mad scientists artificially manipulated the genes of corn, cotton and soybean seeds to produce crops that — hocus pocus! — could absorb mega doses of Roundup without croaking. These patented seeds, called "Roundup Ready," helped Monsanto continue to sell oceans of its weedkiller.

But Mother Nature's weeds are smarter than the Frankensteins in Monsanto's labs, and they've quickly evolved into tenacious superweeds that Roundup can't kill. There are now 10 resistant species of these superweeds infesting some 10 million acres in 22 states — and they're spreading. ............(more)

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The bastards tried to play god with their methicillin antibiotic. But Mother Nature got her karmic justice with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.

Sure showed them.

once again, it is us. The Monsanto management took their hefty bonuses to the bank; paid dividends to the stock holders;
and is passing the costs on to the environment and to us, the consumers.

This pattern will continue until enough people demand that corporations be held accountable for their malfeasance and
enough people wake up to the fact that our earth and our lives are not a giant casino for the benefits of a few wealthy
corporatists.