The 10 GMO Myths That Monsanto Wants You to Believe

'Monsanto and their biotech buddies would have you believe that they are super-heroes, set on saving hungry children from starvation wearing a dazzling fake-green cape. In fact, in a recent attack on activists, Monsanto's CEO Hugh Grant said that because critics "can afford" organic food, we don't care about the plight of those who can't afford it.

“There is this strange kind of reverse elitism: If I’m going to do this, then everything else shouldn’t exist,” said Grant. “There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.”'

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Biotech industry produced GMOs block detoxification pathways

Genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) are a newer technology that has spread throughout the modern world – in a short time – with little research of long-term efficacy.

”I’m against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That’s wrong, there is plenty of natural, normal good food in the world to nourish the double of humanity. There is absolutely no justification to produce genetically modified food except the profit motive and the domination of the multinational corporations.” – Jean Ziegler, UN human rights envoy and special investigator on the right to food, “U.N. food envoy questions safety of gene crops”, Reuters, 15 Oct 2002

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The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming

'Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed,

“Monsanto is an agricultural company. We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world \produce more while conserving more.” “Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.”

These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply — 95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.'

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10 Reasons Why GM Foods Are Just Plain Wrong

Graphic by Dees Illustration (croppped, GM letters added)

'Genetically modified foods are nearly impossible to avoid in the US—and the EU is on the verge of following suit. But nothing we’re officially told about GM foods’ safety is true, and the rest of the claims are all demonstrably false. Please, be sure that you know the truth and then get active to end this destruction of our food supply.'

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