Monsanto May Pay a Minimum of Two Billion to Brazil

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Monsanto May Lose Billions in Brazil over ‘Monsanto Tax’ | Food Freedom News

They're in trouble elsewhere too.

"India requires that any entity attempting to use a native plant for commercial or research purposes must first get approval; Monsanto, however, neglected to do this, opting instead to essentially steal the native plants in order to modify them for their own commercial gain."

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A hundred million in clean up... no sweat... they'll take it as a write off. Billions in a Monsanto tax.... no biggie for them. Everyone knows corporations don't pay taxes.... they just pass them onto the consumer. This billion dollar Monsanto tax won't hurt them in the least. Start a little file and add Monsanto articles to it and follow up.
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While Monsanto's behavior may be unconscionable.... they only exist because the end justifies the means so what does that say about the powers that be?

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1. Tomatoes

Did you know tomatoes were the first genetically modified crop to be commercially available in the U.S.? (Probably not since the government didn’t tell us and they aren’t labeled). In 1994,****transgenic tomatoes known as the****FlavrSavrs hit the market. They contained****a “deactivated” gene that was supposed to prevent the fruit from getting soft as it ripened. It didn’t work as well as biotech companies hoped. Now, experts are praising a new technique whereby****two enzymes, (A-Man, B-hex) are suppressed. Unfortunately, there have been****reports that some animals have died shortly after consuming GMO tomatoes. Yum.

2. Corn

This one is tough, because even foods that you wouldn’t normally associate with corn have ingredients, like sweeteners, that are derived from GMO corn. As Care2′s Jaelithe Judy reports,****genetically modified corn and soybeans were developed by Monsanto in the 1990s to be resistant to the synthetic herbicide glyphosate (better known by Monsanto’s trademarked name for the weedkiller, Roundup). Now,****more than 70 percent of corn produced in the United States are the genetically modified, herbicide-resistant variety. Fresh corn from Walmart should be especially avoided.

3. Papayas

In the late 1980′s biotech researchers developed a****papaya cultivar that would be resistant to Papaya Ringspot Virus.****To do this, certain viral genes encoding capsid proteins were transferred to the papaya genome. Now, GMO papaya make up about****75 percent of the total Hawaiian papaya crop.

4. Rice

Rice is considered to be one of the world’s staple crops. In many areas, it has been genetically modified to contain****a high amount of vitamin A. More recently, it was discovered that an American company,****Ventria Bioscience, has been****cultivating rice that’s genetically modified (GM) with genes from the human liver. Although the company claims it’s only producing this rice to help speed pharmacuetical research, it’s growing it in open, outdoor fields. Meaning crops nearby can be unknowingly contaminated.****China, which grows and consumes a huge percentage of the global rice supply, recently suspended distribution of genetically modified rice within its commercial food suppliesover growing concern about its safety.

5. Potatoes

Potatoes were once one of the world’s most important staple crops, but thanks to growing awareness about the harm of too many empty carbohydrates, demand for potatoes as food has waned slightly in the past few years. Desperate for a way to infuse potatoes with more nutrients, researchers in India created a potato with thirty-five to sixty percent more protein using genes from the amaranth seeds. The potato is still very valuable to****the starch and chemical industry, however. In order to protect these starch crops from pets and disease, potatoes are sometimes genetically modified with Bacillus thuringiensis var. Kurstaki Cry 1. Yet, mice fed GE potatoes have shown abnormal amounts of toxins in their systems. Also, according to Dr. Nina V. Fedoroff, Willaman Professor of Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University found that “rats fed the transgenic potatoes had significantly lower organ weights.”



Read more: Top 5 GMO Foods To Watch Out For | Care2 Causes

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You forgot sugar beets, zucchini, soybeans, bananas, and now sweet corn. I keep meaning to track down a source for the cold hardy banana that can supposedly be grown in zone 5.