Presented here, for the enjoyment of all truth-seeking readers, is groups of destroyers, of industrial, poison-spreading corporations.
Tonight is presented Monsanto (now a subsidiary of Bayer Corporation), a name giving me elephant goose bumps and trickles down the spine. I had planned on taking on Exxon Mobile before them, but a number of beyond stupid statements I’ve heard lately that their product Aspartame is safe has made them an even stronger priority.
This will be an incomplete presentation, as it almost has to be, since the list of Monsanto’s «sins» is one of the most extensive I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot). The popular Monsanto Files have become a classic on the Internet and one of the most illustrative when it comes to explaining the industrial destructive power on nature and life on Earth in general. The story about Monsanto is the story about the twentieth century’s industrial «venture», a huge, sick bite of it.
Monsanto - Aspartame
Aspartame, an artificial sweetener was headed for rejection in FDA (Food and Drug Administration) when President Ronald Reagan stepped in and appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes jr. as new commissioner there. Hayes wasted no time and quickly overran his own employees and advisers, and in spite of alarming test results approved Aspartame for commercial use. Aspartame is presently in widespread use, among countless products in all cola and countless “sugar free” drinks. Hayes was forced to resign in November 1983 because of massive accusations of corruption. His reward was a very profitable job as consultant for Searle, the company that joined with Monsanto.
The approval did raise a lot of flags and Searle/Monsanto had to convince the elected officials. They did that by falsifying research papers and test results. The false results were accepted as truth, and the storm laid to rest. A researcher and committee member told people many years later: «I will never again believe a word of what these people are saying».
As many as 92 major and minor harmful effects have been reported after ingesting Aspartame-products. They are cancer, headaches, blindness, hearing problems, epileptic seizures, shaking, breathing trouble, allergies and Multiple Sclerosis, to mention a few. You find the list here.
Any test result or person or group of persons claiming that Aspartame isn’t dangerous is sponsored by Monsanto, pretty much in style with Big Oil. This includes, sadly and astonishingly and shockingly the American Multiple Sclerosis society. They get giant contributions from Monsanto to support them.
Monsanto lies, threatens and bribes people and groups to keep their dangerous products on the market.
The Monsanto Files are a series of articles first printed in The Ecologist in September and October 1998, touching upon many crucial aspects of modern society and the direction it is going. It doesn’t really matter that they are twenty-eight years’ old. They are more relevant than ever. During those years the situation, as is often the case in these horrible times gone from bad to worse, in particular concerning genetic modification (GM). Monsanto’s dream of world hegemony is close, very close, and we’ve seen their lies exposed further. Remember all those assurances that their field crops wouldn’t spread? It has proven just as much deceit as everything else they’ve told us. The resistance to GM-food, also called Frankenfood is faltering. One reason is that GM-food has spread almost everywhere and people have to eat. It still isn’t too late to stop it, it never is, but the only way to do that is to eradicate Monsanto and companies like them, destroyers like them from the face of the Earth.
Reading through it again, I once more feel almost incredulous. I knew it is bad, but this story almost feel like a dark, beyond dark «fairytale». The truth it exposes is so completely irrational and insane that it is hard to believe. Even for a consummate critic of society like myself it’s hard to believe that the government and elected officials in general is to such a degree in the pockets of big industry. Even in recent years, when I’ve grown more critical than ever, it stays beyond baffling.
The Monsanto Files has been on the Internet for 28 years and been read by many, but not many enough, and too many have chosen to ignore them. They say a lot about Monsanto, about the politicians allowing them to operate, about greed in general, about FDA, the US Food and Drug Administration, and about modern society in general, how power and wealth can completely undermine public safety and health, how that can become a minor, insignificant concern in the insanity the world has become. People need to read The Monsanto Files, read it thoroughly, study the subject and realize what it means, both to them and to humanity as a whole and all life on this planet. Every single webpage in existence should post this beyond crucial information.
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