Have you seen this advertisement? Couched deep within the green-washed rhetoric of a recent Monsanto ad is an egregious claim:
Producing more. Conserving more. Improving farmers’ lives. That’s sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto is all about.
Oh, really?
While the mainstream media and Big Ag pundits seem all too happy to watch how Monsanto and other biotech companies spin and co-opt the term “sustainability,” we at the Center for Food Safety (CFS) are on the front lines fighting against the corporate take-over of our food, farms, and future; advocating for REAL, sustainable, solutions to the problems of the biotech industrial agriculture model.
Over the next month, CFS will be bringing you videos from some experts with whom we work closely in the trenches—Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Anna Lappé, and CFS’s Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell—to help us tell you the real truth about the false claims put forth by Monsanto and other biotech companies. We’ll share with you why these leading activists support the work of the Center for Food Safety.
CFS has been fighting on your behalf since 1997. We have accomplished a lot – we’ve stopped GMO crops including wheat, rice, and alfalfa, and also dangerous pharmaceutical-producing crops. We’ve beat Monsanto in the courts, but they have the substantial resources to continue to challenge CFS; just this week, they asked for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider yet another appeal of our successful lawsuit stopping GMO alfalfa.
We can only accomplish these victories with the support of members like you. Please join Vandana Shiva in supporting our work, to raise the funds we need to continue to fight Monsanto in the courts, and to combat the twisted version of “sustainability” biotech company marketers are trying to foist on the world. We need your help, right now, to raise our goal of $100,000 this Fall — less than the amount Monsanto spent on just ONE AD on the back page of The New Yorker (about $140,000), to support our important work.
HELP US FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH AND BUST THE BIOTECH MYTHS
In this week’s video, Vandana Shiva, founder and director of Navdanya in India, leader in the Slow Foods Movement, and author of the recently released book, Soil not Oil, shares the tragic story of farmers pushed into intractable debt, and some to suicide, by the economy of biotech crops, and why she supports the work of the Center for Food Safety.
Help us show the world that Monsanto’s vision is NOT our vision. Thank you for your support!
PS – Don’t forget to choose a thank you gift from our drop-down list when you donate! Get a copy of Your Right to Know, Soil Not Oil, the film “Food, Inc”, our Non-GMO Shopping Guide, and more!
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I’m not sure if this box is for writing a letter to Monsanto or a note of support for you, but I’ll use it as the latter.
I am very grateful for your work. It is essential.
One crucial strategy you may wish to include in debunking Monsanto’s “sustainable agriculture” claims is the fact that chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides)
kill microbial soil life and without this, no soil is healthy and no agriculture is sustainable. You doubtless know to go to soilfoodweb.org (for one) and use the work of Dr. Elaine Ingham of Oregon State U.
Thank you again.
How can we get President Obama to label our foods so that we know what ingredients are in them and what has been altered?
Monsanto and other such chemical companies should be stripped of their patents over food organisms and let the people have their rights restored. Farmers who buy their seeds and are not allowed to keep seed year to year are at their mercy – it is immoral and should be illegal too
Is there a transcript available of Vandana Shiva’s video? (The one shown this month on your website.) I would like to be able to share the info with folks who don’t use computers.
I will send a little donation to add to the others. I believe this is the most important thing going on right now.
Thanks,
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Unfortunately, there is no transcript for this video. Sorry.
Response to Nancy K. Anderson, comment #2 above:
Indeed, how, Nancy? If you find a way let us all know.
Meanwhile, I have other questions: Why is Obama naming Monsanto’s men to high office in gov’t agencies, the USDA, FDA, etc.? Has Obama been made an offer he could not refuse? Or is he naive/ignorant enough to believe Monsanto’s tales? And, HOW have WE, The People allowed Monsanto & Co. to get this far? And what’s Monsanto’s purpose, global power and control over a dead world? Have we all gone insane or what?
I suspect We, The People have been sound asleep for a long long while…
I further suspect the long long sleep goes on still… Indeed, we may not wake up in time to save our food, ourselves, or Civilization itself from what’s looming ahead: eco-collapse, or the grip of a new tyranny–not military but corporate, not of weapons and demented dictators but of food and demented fools. “Not with a bang but a whimper,” predicted The Poet!