Monsanto fabricates the facts

Before I get into any more specific case studies on countries, such as the story I posted last week about Germany, I am going to delve slightly into a corporation I have already mentioned called Monsanto. According to Wikipedia, Monsanto sells 90% of the world's genetically modifided seed. As countries one by one have discovered the fabrications in the facts Monsanto posts about its products, they have banned the company's products, and therefore harmed trade relations.

Monsanto's claim is that its products increase crop yield, and are therefore extremely beneficial to countries suffering from extreme famine. However, as New Delhi policy analyst, Devinder Sharma, examines in his column "Do GM Crops Increase Yield?", much of Monsanto's claims have been barefaced lies. Monsanto has claimed that its products increase yields in several countries, when really it is merely taking advantage of the average person's ignorance of scientific terminology to distort the facts. Monsanto's claim is this: herbicides, such as Genuity or Roundup Ready, increase crop yield. However, as Sharma points out, these chemicals work only to reduce crop losses - they do not increase the actual yield. Furthermore, Monsanto has used its terminology to successfully ensure that all other brands of herbicide are removed from the market, as it has skewed customer preferences, through LIES, towards its own products.

Monsanto's myth has, in fact, driven desperate farmers in other countries to suicide - some Indian farmers have even killed themselves by drinking gallons of the product Roundup Ready. The farmers are angry that Monsanto has coaxed them into buying its products and its products only (pushing other less expensive herbicides out of the market, as I mentioned) and that the chemicals that were claimed to increase crop yield have not done so.

My point is that Monsanto has convinced the world that its products can do things they can't. This is especially so in the case of genetically modifided corn, one of the most highly banned GM crops worldwide. More and more countries are becoming aware of Monsanto's fabrications, the reality of its products, the damage it has done on peoples' lifestyles, and its INABILITY to follow through with its claim: an end to famine.