Monsanto Quotes

• Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Want, Can Do

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• Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in government or government subsidies for our current food system that's a disaster and not sustainable? Yes. That would be really great, but a lot of that information unless you look for it, it's not available to you because that's not the discussion that's happening on mainstream news.

  Ellen Page

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Law, Creating, United States

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• The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Microsoft, Tests, Information

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• It’s not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. It’s making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. We’ve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason it’s been misused is because it was wasted by the big users—industry, which polluted it.

  Vandana Shiva

  Drinking, Blue, People

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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.

  Wangari Maathai

  Law, Government, Kenya

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Priorities, Important

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• Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity, not least with a kind of conviction and passion that is all too rare

  Tony Juniper

  Reading, Passion, Festivals

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• For me, the overarching issue here is that we need regulatory agencies that are standing up for us, that do not have a revolving door between, you know, Monsanto, and then suddenly Monsanto lobbyists are in charge of, you know, telling us whether GMOs are, you know, good for our food or not.

  Jill Stein

  Agency, Doors, Gmos

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

  Wendell Berry

  Freedom, Thinking, Unhappy

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• Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even a dogma, which is today called, the "tragedy of the commons" which holds that if things are held in common they are going to be destroyed. If they're privatized, like you give them to Bechtel or Monsanto or ExxonMobil, then they'll be preserved because that's the capitalist's religion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving, Tragedy, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• rBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered. The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for. Given the cancer risks, and other health concerns, why is rBGH milk still on the market?

  Samuel Epstein

  Cancer, Fda, Gmos

  Samuel Epstein (2007). “What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking”, p.48, Trafford Publishing

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• Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

  Allen Lacy

  Kids, Looks, Littles

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• ... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.

  Michael Grunwald

  Years, Toxic Waste, Environmental

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• By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.

  Tommy Chong

  Marijuana, People, Trying

  "Tommy Chong: The Beyond Chronic Interview (Part Two)". Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• There is no reason why a company like Monsanto, for example, that is pushing GMOs, cannot go to Kenya, partner with the university, partner with the research institutions, and try to promote - in a responsible way - advanced techniques to help farmers. But this should be done in such a way that the farmers' livelihoods are not undermined because the government is irresponsible or careless, or because it is compromised.

  Wangari Maathai

  Gmos, Government, Trying

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

  Alex Ebert

  Issues, Pissed Off, Whole

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you read Wall Street’s reports, they don’t talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don’t talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsanto’s intelligence and innovation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Wall, Numbers, Innovation

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• The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

  Vandana Shiva

  Children, Thinking, Growth

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Archer, Soup Kitchens, Government

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• Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology, .. The financial discipline we have exercised has also allowed us to establish a solid foundation which is poised for growth in the years ahead.

  Terry Crews

  Technology, Years, Discipline

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• My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Dad, Florida, Years

  "'Food Chains' Looks at the Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 21, 2014.

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• It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

  Michael Specter

  Fraud, Being Accused, Accused

  "Why the Climate Corporation Sold Itself to Monsanto" by Michael Specter, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2013.

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