Statement from a farmer regarding Monsanto’s legal practices:
“Monsanto falsely accused us of violating their patent and breach of contract. None of it was true. You go into a market, you find a dominant farmer and if you can ruin them, you scare the rest of them to following in line. My family spent $400, fighting the battle, pretrial. And we were told it would take another million to take the thing to trial. We settled out of court. The way the system appeared to work to me was, Lady Justice had the scales and you piled cash on the scales and the one that piled the most cash on the scales, hired the most experts and was most willing to tell the biggest lies, that was the winner. That seems to be how our justice system functions now. It's terrible. It's terrible. How can a farmer defend himself against a multinational corporation like Monsanto?” (Roush. Food, Inc.)
Since the start of genetic engineering there has always been someone to stand up against it. Today, there is seemingly not enough “conclusive evidence” to show that GMO is bad for one’s health, but should we really need “evidence” before our human tampering of genetics is too messed up to fix? One can surmise that new cancers, human genome defects, shortened life-spans, and an array of health problems could arise from humans trying to make our food “better”. Is it not already nutrient rich? Is not the problem the dietary intake and cultural imbroglio of the west? “A 2009 review in Nutrition Reviews found that although most studies concluded that GM foods do not differ in nutrition or cause any detectable toxic effects in animals, some studies did report adverse changes at a cellular level caused by some GM foods, concluding that ‘More scientific effort and investigation is needed to ensure that consumption of GM foods is not likely to provoke any form of health problem’”(Nutrition Reviews).
Statement from a farmer regarding Monsanto’s legal practices:“Monsanto falsely accused us of violating their patent and breach of contract. None of it was true. You go into a market, you find a dominant farmer and if you can ruin them, you scare the rest of them to following in line. My family spent $400, fighting the battle, pretrial. And we were told it would take another million to take the thing to trial. We settled out of court. The way the system appeared to work to me was, Lady Justice had the scales and you piled cash on the scales and the one that piled the most cash on the scales, hired the most experts and was most willing to tell the biggest lies, that was the winner. That seems to be how our justice system functions now. It's terrible. It's terrible. How can a farmer defend himself against a multinational corporation like Monsanto?” (Roush. Food, Inc.)Since the start of genetic engineering there has always been someone to stand up against it. Today, there is seemingly not enough “conclusive evidence” to show that GMO is bad for one’s health, but should we really need “evidence” before our human tampering of genetics is too messed up to fix? One can surmise that new cancers, human genome defects, shortened life-spans, and an array of health problems could arise from humans trying to make our food “better”. Is it not already nutrient rich? Is not the problem the dietary intake and cultural imbroglio of the west? “A 2009 review in Nutrition Reviews found that although most studies concluded that GM foods do not differ in nutrition or cause any detectable toxic effects in animals, some studies did report adverse changes at a cellular level caused by some GM foods, concluding that ‘More scientific effort and investigation is needed to ensure that consumption of GM foods is not likely to provoke any form of health problem’”(Nutrition Reviews).
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