!! MONSANTO: INDIA BIOPIRACY

MONSANTO, SYNONYM: WRONG.

Have you ever noticed how a word sometimes comes to mean a whole new class of things like, Kleenex, or the crapper, or phrases like “you bug me”, or “the computer has a bug in it”? What is it about a company that is allowed to do and act as irresponsibly, callously as Monsanto and its “ilk”.

When I see an article about Monsanto in some part of the world, I just assume they’ve done something terribly offensive again. I have yet to be wrong, at least in the articles I do see.

Here is another report on a company that is changing our food, our environment our lives in ways that cannot be considered good for us, though good for its’ own bottom line. From India this time and I quote directly:

“Monsanto To Face Biopiracy Charges In India

In an unprecedented decision, India’s National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), a government agency, declared legal action against Monsanto (and their collaborators) for accessing and using local eggplant varieties to develop their Bt genetically engineered version1 without prior approval of the competent authorities, which is considered an act of “biopiracy.””

One does not have to have a prolonged study of ethics and morality to find deep down within a gut kind of outrage at this behavior. Any other company individual or animal that behaved similarly would be considered [you fill in the blank].

martin

ps. What does this have to do with cancer? Those who consume a diet that is natural and normal (for paleolithic man) tend to be healthier. What happens when the majority of foods that are consumed in the Standard American Diet (SAD) are not only unnatural but genetically unnatural as well? Do you need to be told?