Monsanto and the Damage Done

[Judi Lynn]

Weekend Edition May 15-17, 2015

Neil Young Targets Monsanto

Monsanto and the Damage Done

by COLIN TODHUNTER


Neil Young is reportedly about to release a new album called, ‘The Monsanto Years’. Don’t expect the lyrics to be music to the ears of the company’s executives over in St Louis, however. With falling profits and glyphosate being reclassified by the WHO as ‘probably’ causing cancer, Monsanto needs Neil Young like it needs a hole in the head.

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, which was primarily responsible $5.1 billion of Monsanto’s revenues in 2014. But that’s not all. The herbicide is used to support Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, which comprise a significant proportion of its revenue stream.

According to the US Department of Agriculture, herbicide-tolerant biotech plants were grown on virtually all (94 percent) soybean fields in the US last year and on 89 percent of all cornfields. Food & Water Watch found the volume of glyphosate applied to those crops increased almost 1,000 percent between 1996 and 2012, from 15 million pounds to 159 million pounds.

But perhaps the WHO’s reclassification presents just another hurdle to be pushed aside by this science-denying company that has such immense influence within the US Environmental Protection Agency so as to have its fraudulent science accepted and studies showing the carcinogenic impact of glyphosate sidelined.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/15/monsanto-and-the-damage-done/

[sabrina 1]

1. Good for him. Monsanto and its right wing think tanks will be working on a smear campaign

against him I'm sure. It's getting old, their tactics of attacking everyone who dares to tell the truth about their poisonous products.

I'm sure they love the TPP though, they will be able to sue every country that has banned their products to protect their populations from their unethical and now we know, dangerous practices.