Mycot Posted June 1, 2013 This is an Avaaz petition to ban GMO's worldwide. http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Ban_Genetically_Modified_Organisms_Worldwide/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nothinghead Posted July 15, 2015 ^ How is any of that relevant to this thread, Change? As far as I can see no one who has posted was critical of GM technology. Feel free to post your opinion on why Monsanto is worth defending, though, if you like... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Change Posted July 16, 2015 How is a video titled Fact Checking Against Monsanto Protesters relevant to a thread titled Protest Monsanto - May 25th ? ......... really? Some people care about opinions against Monsanto, Im more concerned with the facts, hence why i posted a video titled Fact Checking Against Monsanto Protesters Its rather concerning that the speakers at the protest in Nottingham didnt have a clue what they were talking about. As far as I can see no one who has posted was critical of GM technology. Really ? This is an Avaaz petition to ban GMO's worldwide. http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Ban_Genetically_Modified_Organisms_Worldwide/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nothinghead Posted July 16, 2015 (edited) The videos seem to be about protestors apparently being anti-GMO, the posts in this thread are about Monsanto and its business practice. Mycot's post is an outlier in that respect. So you're trying to address an issue that is tangential to the discussion here. Search out a thread on GMOs where your videos will be relevant. This one was about organising demonstrations against a company, not a technology. Otherwise, can you post your facts about why Monsanto is worth defending? edit: If anyone's interested in a refresher on why Monsanto is such a horrible company, Marie Monique Robin's book The World According to Monsanto is a pretty devastating read. It covers things like the impact of Monsanto's: 1) industrial scale production of PCBs and dioxin and its subsequent destruction –at least once in cooperation with the U.S.'s Environmental Protection Agency– of materials that would incriminate the company and leave it liable for legal action and costly settlements for people whose health and lives were effected (/destroyed). 2) Monsanto's role in developing chemical weapons (2,4,5- trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, Agent Orange, and others) for the U.S. government. 3) The company's infamous large scale production and deployment of DDT. 4) Its falsification of scientific documents to save itself from liability for giving countless people cancer which also meant it could conduct business as usual manufacturing carcinogenic substances. The misleading studies also meant that dioxins produced by Monsanto were not regulated by the US's Clean Air Act since they were "safe," and as with so many other things once the rest of the world saw the U.S. approving these practices, we followed suit. 5) On a different note, the company's infamous role in the farmer suicides in India. Of course, there's heaps more. Check it out if you're interested. Edited July 16, 2015 by hashslingr 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
