Bellaverde, Beneforté, Dulce Verde are brands that may see on broccoli and asparagus in UK supermarkets such as Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Tesco and are Monsanto owned brands. If you've ever dieted but have a sweet tooth, you'll have come across their toxic chemicals in AminoSweet, NutraSweet, Equal, NatraTaste, Canderel, Spoonful, Equal-Measure. There are loads more chemicals currently produced by this company that are used in global food production which may also have severe effects on our health and the environment. Monsanto have strong Government ties in the US, and have literally got away with murder.
Monsanto, which was created around 100 years ago, operated the development of the first nuclear weapons and created chemicals such as Agent Orange. They are now the world’s largest GMO creators and are guilty of mass crimes against humanity and the planet. Their intention is to dominate agriculture on a global scale and their actions are largely earth killing, market-monopolizing, climate-destabilising. Control of food supply leads to control of people.
The company's first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin, which it sold to The Coca-Cola Company. It then started to produce industrial chemicals like sulfuric acid and become one of the most financially sucessful chemical companies. It expanded to become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibres. Other major products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, and Agent Orange used primarily during the Vietnam War.
The US sprayed 80m litres of poisonous chemicals during Operation Ranchhand. There were many Agents used, including Pink, Green and White, but Agent Orange was used the most - 45m litres sprayed over a 10th of Vietnam. It was also used - mostly in secret - over parts of neighbouring Cambodia. Unfortunately millions of people have been affected. Agent Orange is laced with dioxins - extremely toxic to humans. Dioxins accumulate in the body to cause cancers. Anyone eating or drinking in contaminated areas then receives an even higher dose. Although spraying stopped in 1971, the ground in many areas of Vietnam remains contaminated by Agent Orange. A disproportionately large number of children in the areas affected are born with defects, both mental and physical. Many are highly susceptible to cancers and disease.
In the late 1990s, a Canadian study tested soil, pond water, fish and duck tissue, as well as human blood samples, and found dangerously high levels of dioxin travelling up the food chain to humans. Dioxin concentrations have been found to be 13 times higher than average in the soil of affected areas, and, in human fat tissue, 20 times as high.
The 'Monsanto Fund' is the charitable arm of the company and states that 'our philanthropic goal has been to bridge the gap between people’s needs and their available resources. We want to help people realize their dreams, and hopefully inspire them to enrol others in their vision.' Yet instead it pushes patented GM crops and herbicides into countries that don't want and can't afford them. Patenting means that farmers who buy GM seeds enter into a licensing agreement with Monsanto for the use of that particular gene. They are forbidden from saving seeds for the next season. They must buy new seed from the company each season. This denies farmers’ right to save seed. The implications of this are huge for poor farmers. Saved seed is the one resource that the poor farmers depend upon to carry them through the year.
Take a look at this article on the recent GM genocide in India. Click here for more info
What to do about Monsanto
http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
Monsanto, which was created around 100 years ago, operated the development of the first nuclear weapons and created chemicals such as Agent Orange. They are now the world’s largest GMO creators and are guilty of mass crimes against humanity and the planet. Their intention is to dominate agriculture on a global scale and their actions are largely earth killing, market-monopolizing, climate-destabilising. Control of food supply leads to control of people.
The company's first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin, which it sold to The Coca-Cola Company. It then started to produce industrial chemicals like sulfuric acid and become one of the most financially sucessful chemical companies. It expanded to become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibres. Other major products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, and Agent Orange used primarily during the Vietnam War.
The US sprayed 80m litres of poisonous chemicals during Operation Ranchhand. There were many Agents used, including Pink, Green and White, but Agent Orange was used the most - 45m litres sprayed over a 10th of Vietnam. It was also used - mostly in secret - over parts of neighbouring Cambodia. Unfortunately millions of people have been affected. Agent Orange is laced with dioxins - extremely toxic to humans. Dioxins accumulate in the body to cause cancers. Anyone eating or drinking in contaminated areas then receives an even higher dose. Although spraying stopped in 1971, the ground in many areas of Vietnam remains contaminated by Agent Orange. A disproportionately large number of children in the areas affected are born with defects, both mental and physical. Many are highly susceptible to cancers and disease.
In the late 1990s, a Canadian study tested soil, pond water, fish and duck tissue, as well as human blood samples, and found dangerously high levels of dioxin travelling up the food chain to humans. Dioxin concentrations have been found to be 13 times higher than average in the soil of affected areas, and, in human fat tissue, 20 times as high.
The 'Monsanto Fund' is the charitable arm of the company and states that 'our philanthropic goal has been to bridge the gap between people’s needs and their available resources. We want to help people realize their dreams, and hopefully inspire them to enrol others in their vision.' Yet instead it pushes patented GM crops and herbicides into countries that don't want and can't afford them. Patenting means that farmers who buy GM seeds enter into a licensing agreement with Monsanto for the use of that particular gene. They are forbidden from saving seeds for the next season. They must buy new seed from the company each season. This denies farmers’ right to save seed. The implications of this are huge for poor farmers. Saved seed is the one resource that the poor farmers depend upon to carry them through the year.
Take a look at this article on the recent GM genocide in India. Click here for more info
What to do about Monsanto
http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
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