Monsanto is Taking over Food

monsanto the monsanto power grab continues monsanto has basically been all but given immunity from federal government oversight and this has been basically ignored by mainstream media i'm not at all surprised course not uh... on thursday congress passed a short term budget measure the senate continuing resolution spending bill which woods and anonymously added writer anonymously added writer living restate that the critics are saying gives monsanto immunity from the federal government it's a little more complicated at the reality is the provisional as the u_s_d_a_ to grant temporary permission for genetically modified crops to be planted even if the judge has ruled that g_m_ all crops art approved at least until proper environmental reviews are conducted so basically once you plan something as we know it's really hard to get out of a lot of those weeks we've heard so many stories about these caught you know copyrighted uh... uh... cm oogie emo crops it's uh... it's a eight calmer midwestern afternoon the sun is setting and your soybean accidentally is blown into the neighboring field and all of a sudden you've got monsanto lawyers uh... suing right we've heard about the stories many times it's very very difficult to get these things out of the ground once they're already in the ground so we have a situation here where this is basically not in the mainstream media at all monsanto is absolutely loving it waiters is now reporting that monsanto has settled with its main competitor dupont over g_m_ osi technology and they are now planning to collaborate monsanto is going to take the lead so dupont will now be allowed to produce monsanto seeds and they will be paying royalty payments to do so it is sickening what is going on here lou s on top of all the the power monsanto has dupont the main competitor is now there's a unity pay monsanto to grow their seats pretty it pretty amazing so i want to be very clear about what the two issues are here there's two arguments that are being mixed up and it's important that people keep both of them kind of straight he gonna talk about it with people don't allow yourself to be confused by the the mixing of complaining of these arguments number one is the discussion of the health of eating g_m_ os varied reports varied studies some say that they'd still to be determined we have some advocates saying there's no evidence that you can g_m_ owes it all harmful but in a number of different tests we've seen that even jim os in animals has actually been harmful so that's that's question one it's a discussion we can have but number two is the corporate control and the behavior of companies like monsanto is really becoming reminiscent of uh... sewing green right in nineteen seventy three science-fiction movie where there's this high energy greenway for that the rationed and it becomes the food source for most of the population due to poverty we're going in the direction of huge corporate control over food and moving away from i thought diffident about these terms of uh... a processed or whatever there's a real food right lewis real food to defer argument i think people need to keep straight yes uh... honestly at this point the the corporate control of the food system in this country is almost complete you can really have control over your food so to some to some significant extent i would say i think so but uh... i think the main problem is that it takes money to do that and knowledge and you can uh... depend on everyone just of you know having a light bulb blow off and i had and said all we don't want you to do this and is just not feasible so part of the problem is the control that these companies have over congress but the other part is the subsidies that we give to producing plants in the first place and let's be honest lewis i would not at all the surprise to hear that monsanto influence over the big corporation corporate media is why the stories about monsanto are widely capt out of the news or no doubt yeah their influence is everywhere all right so we're gonna keep following the story next will talk to but david kay law professor about bush administration war-crimes charges statutes of limitations stay with us excellent interview coming up next david hackman shelves and david happening dot com