Letter I sent to Monsanto CEO

[Guest guest]

Hugh Grant

Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive

Officer

Monsanto Company

800 North Lindbergh Boulevard

St. Louis, MO-63167

(314) 694-1000

 

Dear Mr. Grant:

 

You know, the American public is not as dull minded

and naive as you believe. Monsanto has a horrible and

well deserved reputation as caring only about profit.

No matter now you spin the talk, and play with your

money, lawyers and lobbyists, folks are realizing what

cads you really are.

 

So tell me, do you personally have " profits over

people " tattooed on your forehead, or are you just

very good at hiding behind corporate policy and

stifling your conscience?

 

Monsanto Company's actions against farmers both here

and abroad has given the term " Ugly Americans " New

life. Gee thanks. I am sure your drive to capture

the dollar here and overseas has done major harm, not

only to peoples lives, but to biological diversity of

crops and freedom as well.

 

You use intimidation, lawsuits and defamation to gain

your results. How do you sleep at night?

 

Your words of honesty, integrity, and decency are

laughable.

 

Monsanto's Genetically Engineered crops. Where do I

begin. I realize that I am wasting my time as you and

your company have made it abundantly clear that the

bottom dollar is all you care about...

 

The deaths of countless Indian farmers who kill

themselves with the round-up pesticide needed for

their seed crops bought from you is reprehensible. It

is done as a result of the mounting debt they occur

using your terminator and round-up ready GM seeds.

 

And you are far from truthful in the amount of

research done in the generational mutations that are

already arising in the GM crops not only here but

worldwide.

 

Humans have the right to produce their own seed from

their own crops. We also have the right to promote and

preserve genetic diversity by selectively breeding

corn, canola, soybeans, and other crops without your

interference.

 

This includes not only not having to settle out of

court or face big battles with you over your much

vaunted " rights " but also it pertains to you flooding

Mexico and other countries with cheap GM corn.

 

You know, maybe you are just ignorant. Let me bring

up a fact that you are not looking at. During the

blight that caused the Potato Famine, Ireland was

producing over a dozen types of potato. Millions

starved to death. The blight was everywhere.

 

Peru was also hit by the same blight. But there since

farmers had privately developed over 5,000 types of

potatoes, the damage to lives and the country was

minimal. We produce only 4 types of potato here in

the U.S.A. Are you smart enough to see the danger of

what you are promoting? We are already facing a

similar situation with bananas (which has happened

more then once with them, they are very sensitive to

this sort of thing.)

 

If a crop is hit hard and a resulting blight wipes out

a GM crop that you developed and pushed on the market,

(underselling the locally bred diverse crop) for the

region as you have done in Latin countries... the

resulting bad publicity would make your company name a

household curse word.

 

Now before you start rumbling about how your GM crops

will prevent that scenario, may I point out that your

GM crops do terrible in drought? The seeds you are

replacing, many of which are being lost to us as a

result of your actions, were bred for those locales,

with the farmers decades of understanding of his

fields and needs.

 

There is no way that a handful of GM crops can cover

every variation of terrain and weather. You are

setting us up for terrible environmental repercussions

that will plague us for years. Hmmm... your company

has a history of doing that, don't they.

 

What grows in the abundant watered flats, will not do

as well on the colder hillsides. But you and your

companies pursuit of the almighty dollar is so

shortsighted as to be almost laughable if it weren't

the cause of deaths, ruined lands, streams, air

pollution, lost bio-diversity and so much more.

 

You didn't think the giving of computers and PR spin

is going to make us forget what your company did with

PCBs are You? We remember what you have done in the

past and the history of your lack of concern only

makes us more aware of how little, how late your

company acted.

 

What proof is there that your policies have changed?

Farmers killing themselves in despair in India,

lawsuits forcing small farmers to their knees to

settle with your corporate lawyers, dairy farms

harassed out of their freedom of speech? What a great

American you are.

 

I, like so many others, not only boycott everything I

find to be from you and your company, but I am working

very hard making sure that the historical records of

your actions are preserved and available to anyone who

wishes to read and be aware.

 

I think you will not be able to control the Internet,

nor the thinking common man.

 

I want you to cease force-feeding untested and

unlabeled genetically engineered seeds on consumers

worldwide.

 

I want you to stop using taxpayers’ money to subsidize

genetically engineered crops- cotton, soybeans, corn,

and canola.

 

I want you to not proceed further with your move into

GM fruits, nuts and Veggies.

 

I want you to withdraw your suits and stop harassment

policy of intimidating farmers who do not march to

your drummer. Dairy, canola, corn and more. Butt

out.

 

Let humans throughout the world develop their own

variations of crops, and not make it illegal for them

to save and use their own seed like you are attempting

to do in the middle east and elsewhere.

 

Sincerely

 

Louise-Jayne Haddaway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Good morning (PST),

I sent a letter too, but I didn't have time to go into such detail. I

did however make the point that they've gotten the power and profits

they now have because we let them when we didn't know any better. Now

that we do, we'll spend our money elsewhere.

 

The best thing you can do to stop Monsanto is make them unprofitable

by getting your food from businesses that do business for the common

good (and not just selfish profits). The second best thing is to

write your political representatives to let them know you don't want

any of our tax money supporting them either.

 

Nick Hein