When you buy corn you pay for Blackwater.

Today I find out that Monsanto, a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation that provides about 90% of genetically engineered seeds had hired blackwater (yes, you heard right) to spy on animal rights and environmental activists. We all know what FBI initiatives like Blackwater and COINTELPRO have really done: brutally tortured people and assassinated prominent civil rights movement leaders (COINTELPRO). The FBI has also a reputation for mistreating animal and environmental activists. Judi Bari has a great chapter on the book, States of confinement: policing, detention and prisons where she tells her personal story.  This book chapter is an account of Judi Bari, EF! activist who was injured in a bomb explosion. The bomb was hidden in her car. The FBI in cooperation with Oakland police accused Bari and her passenger of sabotage, starting a media campaign to discredit EF! movement. Even thought evidences that linked the two activists to the bomb were never found or confirmed, the FBI kept Bari as the main suspect of the terrorist attack that left her cripple. Not only Monsanto already owns our crop (it has a patent on genetically modified crops and has sued farmers trying to ‘rebel,’ winning because in brief seeds fly with the wind and they get deposited on other people’ lands, so the crop you think it’s yours, it’s not really yours: Monsanto owns it.  There is this other great book, The Omnivore’s dilemma by Michael Pollan that explains much better than I can the all mechanism. There is also a French documentary about Monsanto. In a sense, I feel that something major is about to come, because when corporations feel the need to hire their own private army against their ‘targeting consumers,’ it means that a change is demanded. Consumers are demanding to have a choice in what they eat, to know how food is produced, distributed and consumed. Stop telling me that our food choice is in response to our demands, because nobody demands to be fed potentially harmful crap. Let’s recall the milk hormone produced by Monsanto that was found to be causing cancer. How about that? And the way we found out is after a long-lasting lawsuit against the journalists who tried to run the story on Fox, but failed. Hormone that has been banned from Europe, but the FDA did not. Well, let’s also talk about who is in charge of the FDA’s food safety? Former Monsanto lobbyist…Mmmhhhh Monsanto are you going to spy on researchers and delete facts? How far are you going to go?

Pretty fucked up, is it?



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