Can anyone get some memes going about Big Pharma and MonSatan (opps I mean Monsanto)? I know Q has only mentioned Pharma 6 times….but there is a money trail there as well. Know what a 'revolving door is? Did you know Monsanto can't be sued? It got itself practically 'above the law'. Yet, it sues farmers for reusing their seeds without 'permission'.
http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-sued-farmers-16-years-gmos-never-lost/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvA0kKp3nGs
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/apr/04/monsanto-protection-act-gm
Monsanto Protection Act put GM companies above the federal courts
4 Apr 2013
Campaigners say that not even the US government can now stop the sale, planting, harvest or distribution of any GM seed. Monsanto and the US farm biotech industry wield legendary power. A revolving door allows corporate chiefs to switch to top posts in the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies; US embassies around the world push GM technology onto dissenting countries; government subsidies back corporate research; federal regulators do largely as the industry wants; the companies pay millions of dollars a year to lobby politicians; thinktanks combat any political opposition; the courts enforce corporate patents on seeds; and the consumer is denied labels or information.
But even people used to the closeness of the US administration and food giants like Monsanto have been shocked by the latest demonstration of the GM industry's political muscle. Little-noticed in Europe or outside the US, President Barack Obama last week signed off what has become widely known as "the Monsanto Protection Act", technically the Farmer Assurance Provision rider in HR 933: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act 2013
The key phrases are a mouthful of legal mumbo jumbo but are widely thought to have been added to the bill by the Missouri republican senator Roy Blunt who is Monsanto's chief recipient of political funds.
According to an array of food and consumer groups, organic farmers, civil liberty and trade unions and others, this hijacks the constitution, sets a legal precedent and puts Monsanto and other biotech companies above the federal courts. It means, they say, that not even the US government can now stop the sale, planting, harvest or distribution of any GM seed, even if it is linked to illness or environmental problems.
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Monsanto Isn’t Feeding the World—It’s Killing Our Children
https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto-isn%E2%80%99t-feeding-world%E2%80%94it%E2%80%99s-killing-our-children