The craziest part of this article is a jury actually found it acceptable that man be awarded $289 MILLION in damages to a man dying of cancer. I have a couple family members living with cancer and that much money would pay the medical bills plus buy all of their kids new homes.

Monsanto might be evil, it might not be. They might just be capitalists.

Same boat here!!! Stuck a needle in my arm,,,, Said it make me big and strong!?!?!?

We used to die of diptheria, dysentery, mumps, measles, gangrene, small pox, typhoid, child birth, pneumonia, giardia, heart attacks, "consumption", strokes, a laundry list of bacterial infections, etc etc etc etc, before 40.

No we die of cancer at 80, 90.

AND ITS ALL MONSANTOS FAULT!!!!

You just cant fix stupid.

It’s like Bayer Co. who produces a new class of agricultural insecticide resembling nicotine.
Its is designed to be used to coat plant & flower seeds with the insecticide prior to planting to reduce insects.
Many of the plants sold by Lowe’s and Home Depot use plants grown from these coated seeds.
Lowe’s claims they no longer purchase plants from neonicotinoid coated seeds due to this.

Studies have shown a link between neonicotinoids and declining honey bee populations.
Testing has proven honey bees actually develop amnesia and can not remember to collect pollen
and/or remember where the pollen sources are. The ones that take chemical tainted pollen back to the
hives or feral colonies mix different chemicals in the honey comb which affect the brood and adult bees
eating the pollen.
How many thousands and thousands of our veterans have died of cancers related to exposure to Agent Orange in Viet Nam?

I equate Roundup with Agent Orange.

Amen! Cancer at 85 sounds more comfortable than starving to death at 25.

At some point in time we humans will realize and accept that "being alive may be hazardous to our health"

Bryce

Round up -
Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant. It is an organophosphorus compound, specifically a phosphonate, which acts by inhibiting the plant enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase . It is used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses that compete with crops. It was discovered to be an herbicide by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970.[3] Monsanto brought it to market for agricultural use in 1974 under the trade name Roundup. Monsanto's last commercially relevant United States patent expired in 2000.





Agent Orange -
Agent Orange is an herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides. It is widely known for its use by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand,[1] during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.[2] It is a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. In addition to its damaging environmental effects, traces of dioxin found in the mixture have caused major health problems for many individuals who were exposed.
2,4,5,T
2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (also known as 2,4,5-T), a synthetic auxin, is a chlorophenoxy acetic acid herbicide used to defoliate broad-leafed plants. It was developed in the late 1940s and was widely used in the agricultural industry until being phased out, starting in the late 1970s due to toxicity concerns. Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the British in the Malayan Emergency and the U.S. in the Vietnam War, was equal parts 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). 2,4,5-T itself is toxic with a NOAEL of 3 mg/kg/day and a LOAEL of 10 mg/kg/day.[3][medical citation needed] Additionally, the manufacturing process for 2,4,5-T contaminates this chemical with trace amounts of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). TCDD is a carcinogenic persistent organic pollutant with long-term effects on the environment. With proper temperature control during production of 2,4,5-T, TCDD levels can be held to about .005 ppm.[citation needed] Before the TCDD risk was well understood, early production facilities lacked proper temperature controls and individual batches tested later were found to have as much as 60 ppm of TCDD.[




2,4,D -
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (usually called 2,4-D) is an organic compound with the chemical formula C8H6Cl2O3. It is a systemic herbicide which selectively kills most broadleaf weeds by causing uncontrolled growth in them, but leaves most grasses such as cereals, lawn turf, and grassland relatively unaffected.

2,4-D is one of the oldest and most widely available herbicides in the world, having been commercially available since 1945, and is now produced by many chemical companies since the patent on it has long since expired. It can be found in numerous commercial lawn herbicide mixtures, and is widely used as a weedkiller on cereal crops, pastures, and orchards. Over 1,500 herbicide products contain 2,4-D as an active ingredient.

Monsanto cornered the seed market and sued a bunch of poor old farmers for tendering their own seed. When wind cross pollinated the fields the farmers got sued. I could care less about them because of all the old farmers they sued for tending seed like they always did. Karma in my opinion...

The documentary Food Inc shows this entire crooked fiasco.

Ya that was crooked what they sued those farmers for using their own seed. Once technology advances to where cultivating weeds is cheaper and more effective the need to use their genetically modified seed will decrease.

Average life span is a tricky number. Historically if you lived past age 5 you could usually count on a long life...

Infant mortality will lower the curve quite a bit. So saying the average life span was 35 is, by itself, a little misleading.

Mike

Well, uh...it isn't?

No. It's an herbicide

I just read an article that said the US honey bee population is at a 20 year high.

In fact, the title was something along the lines of “how did we get the bee decline scare so wrong”.

I’ve kept bees for 43 years. Had them before anyone ever heard of varroa mites. Here’s the #1 thing anyone thinking of becoming a beekeeper needs to know......you must treat for mites, or they will take out your hive. They have been, and are still the greatest threat to honeybees. IMHO, all the take of Colony Collapse is just a ploy for universities and sometimes even individuals to get government and corporate grant money for studies. As far as Monsanto,...I’m a long time Roundup user. Plan to stay that way.

Bayer/Monsanto has a net worth of over $104 billion dollars. Of course it is evil.

And the ACLU along with them.

LOL, every bite of food and every drink you take has more than you want to know. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we actually may die!