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Wednesday, October 22, 2003

This morning in Botany our professor, Lisa-Renee, went on a ranta about Monsanto. It was great! She showed us how to look critically at the studies they produce, and how to prove that they are lying. She described how Monsanto and similar corporations threathen their employees' jobs if they don't come up with new products, which drives scientists working for them to skew their data to suggest their products are more successful than other breeds or growing materials. She got herself worked up, too, with all kinds of righteous scientific anger. "They lie," she said. "They are inethical, they skew their data, they threaten employees with lay-offs."

Not to mention, I would add, they screw farmers in developing countries up the ass by patenting plants that have passed down culturally for hundreds of years. A few years ago, YES! magazine had an article about how U.S. bio-corporations have genetically modified and patented the breeds of chickpeas grown in India, and made them sterile, so that poor farmers have to buy seeds from Monsanto every year or starve. Yeah for multi-national corporations!

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