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Here's the best part. (I'm going off the top of my head here---corect me if I'm wrong.) Monsanto cannot be stopped, no matter how transparent and outrageous their practices. Monsanto could finance pirates stealing cargo on the high seas for a kick back, and we could not shut them down. They could kill a thousand babies doing tests on their products and then deny it and falsify all the information. We could not stop them. We can convict their individual executives and imprison them, but we cannot stop the company. In America, people can be stopped, but not corporations.
As long as they are making money, investors can and will buy shares in the company, and the SEC is powerless to even suspend trading unless there is a direct violation of an SEC rules in their trading practices. As long as they can find ways to make money, legal or otherwise, they are perfectly free to remain a business entity in the USA. As long as they can lie cheat and steal enough money to offset their costs of losing lawsuits, they're good to go. It looks like they know that.
The real question is, how many more 10s of thousands of lives have to be lost before the average defender gets the point ??? The downward spiral of any empathy for your fellow man is a major support for Monsanto. My family who are left in the state of Iowa have said that the old days of neighbours/family/friends helping each other out and the normal community closeness that was so characteristic of the midwest as a whole has been eroded by this same attitude. The smart-a$$ responses to such revelations are an evidence that many areas of civilization around the Globe are indeed in trouble and will continue to further erode. It's come to the point where many people are simply ammoral.
My family who are left in the state of Iowa have said that the old days of neighbours/family/friends helping each other out and the normal community closeness that was so characteristic of the midwest as a whole has been eroded by...
Crystal Meth
Seriously though....did you mean to post this in the relationships forum?
BTW, Thanks, Omaha. You have inspired me to actually look up details about Monsanto, in genuinely reliable objective sources, and I've discovered that it is worse than I thought. I had previously not known much about the particulars of Monsanto's practices, but now that you've challenged me to look some things up to provide verification here, I see that they really are a great deal more evil than even I had thought they were.
Thanks for opening our eyes about what rotten batsards they really are. Now, thanks to you, we know the truth.
I would love to read these genuinely reliable objective sources so as to see where you are coming from. Please provide a few links so that the rest of us following this thread can also weigh the evidence?
I would love to read these genuinely reliable objective sources so as to see where you are coming from. Please provide a few links so that the rest of us following this thread can also weigh the evidence?
You just alluded to one of the major pitfalls of "The Internet Age."
Any and everything - especially that tripe with which we agree - can become "indisputable fact" if it appears on the internet, and is repeated often enough.
Then it becomes hyperbole. "How many more tens of thousands of people have to die before the average defender gets the point?!?!?!?!?!?"
The story about how Monsanto is trying to "patent the pig", and make it illegal for anybody in the world to raise pigs - except theirs - is classic. Next thing you know, we'll have a thread about how Monsanto is trying to patent the Moon, and nobody will be able to look at it without paying royalties...
So far you've put up 2 posts on this thread, and both of them have been absolutely worthless.
Finally you're absoltuely correct on that one. Both posts and the subject matter in question are dealing with YOU
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Do you have anything intelligent and credible to add?
Not if it's the same subject!!!
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