Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

I liked your 14 reasons Paul but is there not a huge big elephant hiding in 
the room that was not mentioned?
John

> Coexist with Monsanto or destroy it?  Follow the organic money.
>
> By Jon Rappoport
>
> October 13, 2013
>
> www.nomorefakenews.com
>
> Let's stop screwing around and go to the heart of the matter.  Whether the 
> public
> campaign against Monsanto takes the form of GMO-labeling or putting 
> millions of
> people in the street protesting against an evil corporation...
>
> Depends on who has the money and what they're willing to use it for.
>
> I'm talking about the billion-dollar natural health industry.
>
> If companies like Whole Foods, Stonyfield, Dr. Bronner's, Lundberg, and 
> the big-time
> nutritional-supplement outfits want to bankroll a popular and very visible 
> uprising
> against Monsanto, they have the dollars to do it.  And they have the PR 
> people to
> ignite it.
>
> If they decide they don't really want to co-exist with Monsanto and GMOs, 
> they could
> start funding something a lot hotter and more effective than GMO-labeling 
> ballot
> measures.
>
> But that's not in their playbook.  They don't have the stomach and courage 
> for it.
> They don't want to get their hands dirty.
>
> So they go for GMO labeling, the ballot measures, coexistence with 
> Monsanto, the
> lite version of a campaign.
>
> It's a lot easier.  It doesn't risk everything that goes with taking on 
> Monsanto
> directly.
>
> "Hey, we're all really nice people.  Don't get nasty.  Monsanto is 
> terribly misguided,
> so let the consumer know what he's buying and let him make up his mind..."
>
> Suppose, in the 1960s, we had this: "The Vietnam War isn't really evil, we 
> don't
> want to promote a few million outraged Americans going out on the streets, 
> so let's
> just have a ballot measure...I buy Vietnam or I don't buy Vietnam...and 
> then people
> can decide whether to support the war..."
>
> Last May, two million people in 436 cities across the world protested 
> against Monsanto.
> So far this weekend, it's 250,000 people in 50 countries.  That's a drop 
> in the
> bucket.
>
> Those demonstrations could expand by millions, with some major PR dollars 
> behind
> them.  Organic dollars.
>
> Here's a quick piece of personal history that gives you a parallel to 
> what's happening
> now with Monsanto.
>
> Back in 1994, I took an active part in what was called the Health Freedom 
> movement.
> The campaign was bankrolled by a few nutritional-supplement companies.
>
> The objective, from their point of view, was passing a federal law that 
> would protect
> them from the bad guy.  The bad guy was the FDA.  The FDA was going after 
> supplements,
> threatening to close off consumers' access to the full range of products.
>
> My position was: okay, pass a law, but that isn't going to stop the FDA. 
> We have
> to attack it with the truth, from every possible angle, as a rogue federal 
> agency
> committing major crimes.  We have to put the Agency on the defensive, back 
> on its
> heels.  We have to make it scramble.  We have to make this a very public 
> war.
>
> The nutritional companies and their toadies said no.  They were the 
> equivalent of
> the GMO-labeling funders of today.  They wanted a nice neat solution, 
> after which
> they would withdraw their dollars and go home.
>
> And so a bill was passed into law (DSHEA), and the FDA has continued, in 
> various
> ways, to go after nutritional-supplement companies, saddling them with red 
> tape...accusing
> them of marketing unreliable products...harassing them.
>
> Meanwhile, the FDA approves medical drugs for public consumption, drugs 
> that, by
> conservative estimates, kill 106,000 people in the US every year.  The 
> supplements
> kill no one.
>
> Sure, pass GMO-labeling measures, but that's not the real answer.    The 
> thing is,
> the people who are funding these measures are basically putting all their 
> money
> into the ballot campaigns---all the money they intend to contribute.
>
> For them, it IS an either-or situation.  Pass ballot measures, or launch 
> an all-out
> attack on Monsanto.  They've made their choice.
>
> They SAY they believe they can sell GMO labeling to the public.  They SAY 
> that's
> all they can sell, because the public is too ignorant to go for anything 
> else.
>
> That's a very convenient position.  It automatically excludes a real 
> rebellion against
> the evil corporation, Monsanto.
>
> "Well, you see, educating people to understand why GMOs are dangerous to 
> health
> and how Monsanto is destroying the sanctity of the food supply...that's 
> too much.
> We can't achieve that."
>
> I don't buy it.
>
> Everything looks bleak until you take action.  In other words, we're 
> looking at
> a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> The CEOs of these natural-health companies would turn pale at the prospect 
> of going
> after Monsanto directly.  It's fear.
>
> They opt for the ballot measures.  They assure us that this is the only 
> option.
> They stage their own version of reality and defend it with "rational" 
> assertions.
>
> It's a con.
>
> Take on Monsanto...directly?  Take out ads exposing Monsanto?  Promote a 
> million
> people in Washington DC Mall on a Saturday afternoon?  Reveal the names of 
> the
> Congressmen who are defending Monsanto?  File new lawsuits against 
> Monsanto?  Put
> small farmers on television who are being harassed and driven out of 
> business by
> Monsanto?  Show the American people the faces of the men and women who 
> spend their
> lives growing food for us, and listen to what they have to say? Bring the 
> outrage
> to a boil?  Expose (gasp) Obama as the number-one supporter of Monsanto in 
> the nation?
> Name the people he's appointed to protect Monsanto?  TELL THE TRUTH?
>
> Oh my God!  Run for the hills!
>
> No no no no!
>
> Let's have a ballot measure.  For labeling.  Let's calm down.  Let's be 
> nice.  Let's
> coexist.  Let's play together in the sandbox, even if the sandbox is 
> polluted with
> GMOs.  Easy does it.  Relax.
>
> Take a deep breath.  The cosmic glob Goo-Goo is with us, and all will be 
> well.
> He instructs us thus:
>
> "Less energy.  Less action.  Less outrage.  Less imagination.  Less 
> truth."
>
> Thank you, Goo-Goo.  Thank you.
>
> Your serene bullshit will sustain us in the days to come.
>
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