Monsanto buys a food prize

[Miranda4peace]

Imagine if a prestigious group announced that this year’s “World Environmental Prize” will be awarded to BP for its unique contribution to the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico. Too absurd, you say?

Right, but try this one: An Iowa group announces that the “World Food Prize” will go to Monsanto for pushing its patented, pricey, genetically-tampered Frankenseeds on impoverished lands as an “answer” to global hunger. This would be so morally perverse that the “cyn” in cynical would be spelled S.I.N. Yet, it’s actually happening.

Rather than encouraging sustainable farming and self-sufficiency in impoverished communities as a way to alleviate poverty and malnutrition, the World Food Prize has been “won” by a profiteering, biotech, seed-and-chemical monopolist that’s the freakish opposite of sustainability. Monsanto is globally infamous for bullying family farmers, bribing and corrupting governments, stiffing independent scientific inquiries into its hokum, running false ads and fraudulent PR campaigns, and going all out to keep consumers from knowing that the crops produced by its seeds contain alien, bioengineered DNA and have not been tested for longterm health and environmental problems.

Why would this avaricious outfit get any sort of award, much less one that can give it a false legitimacy as a corporate “savior” for the world’s poor? Perhaps because Monsanto is a major funder of the World Food Prize. Indeed, the foundation that hands out the award is headquartered in downtown Des Moines in a historic building that recently got a spiffy remodeling, thanks to a $5 million donation from – you guessed it – Monsanto.

How cynical is that? Even Lily Tomlin wouldn’t have imagined it.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20131017/OPINION01/310170035/Bonus-column-Monsanto-buys-a-food-prize?Opinion

[Berlum]

1. Wow

human beings have a right to know about the corporate industrial mutant foodlike product that is, for now, being occultly shoved down our gullets.

[proverbialwisdom]

2. VOTE WITH YOUR FORK.

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http://www.nourishlife.org/2011/03/vote-with-your-fork/

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http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15113-farmers-slam-awards-for-gm-proponents

Farmers slam awards for GMO proponents
RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat
October 15 2013

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In its website, the World Food Prize Foundation describes itself as a private, nonprofit organization set up in 1986 with its headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The APC, however, said the foundation is receiving money from agrochemical transnational corporations such as Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer, Bayer, and Cargill. It also received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which funded the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) based in the Philippines, and from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that funded the Golden Rice research in the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.

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Rahmat added that Syngenta and Monsanto belong to the six multinational gene giants that control the current priorities and future direction of agriculture research worldwide, controlling 59.8 percent of commercial seeds and 76.1 percent of agrochemicals. Rahmat is also the secretary general of the Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement (Agra) based in Indonesia.

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http://gmwatch.org
SITE SEARCH: Richard Goodman

eg.

http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/14871-the-bad-seed-the-health-risks-of-genetically-modified-corn

Elle Magazine, 24 Jul 2013
http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/healthy-eating-avoid-gmo-corn

http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/14926-the-goodman-affair-monsanto-targets-the-heart-of-science

The Goodman affair: Monsanto targets the heart of science
by Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham, PhD
Independent Science News and Earth Open Source, 20 May 2013
http://bit.ly/10GScQz
and
http://bit.ly/189Ff88

[Miranda4peace]

3. Thanks for the addition:)

Luv ur sig lines as well. Are you a fan of Bernard Shaw?

[proverbialwisdom]

4. Thanks. My familiarity with GBS is strictly limited to the isolated quotes I've read out of context.

Like Zappa's, too.

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[Miranda4peace]

6. Love it!

Here's one for Ted Cruz-

[MisterP]

5. next you'll be telling me Borlaug's Borlaug Prize is self-awarded!