Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

Bill I grew up on and around farms myself, though they where mostly dairy and hay farms.
If roundup actually worked the way Monsanto said it did, it would be great.
Fast acting weed killer that breaks down in the soil quickly.
But the truth is it doesn't break down in the soil quickly (takes about 25 years). So the boost to crop productivity will last for a while, maybe even a long while, but it is destroying the soil. So after using roundup for a time you need to increase your fertilizer program and also increase your roundup applications as the weeds become tolerant to it.
I'd say the recent increase in finding the active ingredient in roundup in pregnant women is alarming. Also I'd bet you dollar to donut that if you where tested you would find it in your system also.
USGS Release: Widely Used Herbicide Commonly Found in Rain and Streams in the Mississippi River Basin (8/29/2011 8:19:35 AM)

Remember at one time asbestos was thought to be the greatest thing since sliced bread for many industries and we know how that turned out.

I watched a documentary the other night that was about a Doctor who made huge strides in the cancer research field back in the 1930s. He found out there appears to be a single organism that mutates into the various forms that cause the different cancers we see.

He could take that organism and change its' diet to effect the various mutations. These mutations look completely different under a microscope, yet he could take any of the variations and put them back on the parent diet and they would revert to the original strain over a short time.

It's probably no surpise to anyone here that the establishment hated him and saw him only as a destroyer of profits.

As far as Roundup, et al are concerned, they have been a huge boost to crop productivity. My family has a small farm and leases the land out to a local farmer. We grow crops, not animals. We grow corn, barley, and soy beans on a rotating basis.

I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to produce the kind of crop yeilds like we have become accustomed to these days without some form of weed control. Our whole food supply chain is geared to the ability of the farmer to harvest a single crop without the interference of a weed contaminated crop.

Watching those huge machines work our land and seeing the singularity of vegitation come out the auger end of the combine sans any vestage of unwanted plants is truly a site to behold. This is only possible because of weed control substances. Like them or loathe them the reason you can go to the grocery store and afford the food you do is because of those devil products.

I'm not standing up for Monsanto or any other company, btw. We have such an arsnic problem with the land from years of that pesticide being used when those feilds were apple orchards for almost 100 years it's disgusting. And the fertilizer that's added to the ground also contains arsnic from the chicken parts that are sometimes used. I'm using the term 'parts' liberally here.

Basically what we have is an artificial foundation that we as a global society depend on for food. Personally, I can't imagine it working for more than a few generations longer. We now use 40% of our croplands nationwide to prop up the ridiculous notion that 110 pound humans need 5,000 pound vehicles to drive to McDonalds in. Thank goodness that ethanol subsidy expired. It's been an unmitigated disaster since the idiots that put it in play conned a nation into believing it would be a good thing.

Taking that cropland and using it year after year for a single crop is harmful to the topsoil. You can't just snap your fingers and fix that problem.

I know I wandered a bit off the Monsanto topic, so let me be clear on this...I think that corporation is the evilest entity on the planet. Whatever good they do pales in the light of the damage they do. I wish other alternatives could be found. And rapidly.

You're right, you couldn't produce raw milk at the level needed to meet the current milk demand. But there are farmers everywhere who are capable of producing a safe raw milk, who aren't allowed to.
Here in NY it's legal to buy raw milk at a farm as long as it has been tested first. In fact here's a list of states where you can buy raw milk.
Where Can I Find Real Milk Products?
The problem with the way they are using G.E. in plants and animals is with the replacement of genes. These are then transported in to humans causing all sorts of problems. But the bigger problem (as you know) is Monsanto and their control over our government.
Look at the rGBH in milk. We are the only country in the world that allows it. Why? because if we didn't Monsanto would lose billions in profits