Monsanto may not be the largest company in the world. Or the worst. But the St. Louis, Mo. biotech giant has become the poster child for all that’s wrong with our industrial food and farming system.
 
Since the early 20th century, Monsanto has marketed highly toxic products that have contaminated the environment and permanently sickened or killed thousands of people around the world. In a rare exception, Monsanto was recently ordered to pay $46.5 million to compensate victims of its PCB poisoning. Sometimes the company settles out of court, to avoid having to admit to any “wrongdoing.”

But for the most part, thanks to the multinational’s powerful influence over U.S. politicians, Monsanto has been able to poison with impunity.
 
On October 15 and 16, in The Hague, Netherlands—the International City of Peace and Justice—a panel of distinguished international judges will hear testimony from witnesses, represented by legitimate lawyers, who have been harmed by Monsanto.
 
In their preparation for the citizens’ tribunal, the tribunal judges will consider six questions that are relevant not just for Monsanto, but to all companies involved in shaping the future of agriculture.

You probably don’t eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken. But KFC’s “finger-lickin’ good” chicken poses a threat to your health, whether you eat it or not.
 
The Washington Post just reported that “for the first time, researchers have found a person in the U.S. carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean ‘the end of the road for antibiotics.”
 
It’s a widely reported fact that one of the primary reasons antibiotics that once helped save lives are now ineffective is the over-use of antibiotics by factory farms. And KFC, one of the world’s largest fast-food chicken restaurants, is partly to blame.
 
Yum! Brands is the parent company of KFC. It’s website says the company is all about “feeding the world” and “corporate social responsibility.”
 
But what’s socially responsible about contributing to a global health crisis by failing to take action on antibiotics?
 
TAKE ACTION: Tell KFC: ‘Just Say No’ to Antibiotics in Chicken!

Check out the new labels on Spaghettios, which state that the product is “Partially Produced with Genetic Engineering.” Finally, food companies are responding to consumer demand for labels on foods that contain, or are produced with GMOs.

But Monsanto wants to rip that label right off the can—and the Biotech Bully’s friends in the Senate and the Obama Administration are more than willing to help.

As of July 1, genetically engineered foods for sale in Vermont must be labeled. Most food companies have done the cost-benefit analysis and figured out that, if they’re going to label GMOs in Vermont, they might as well use that same label nationwide.

But Monsanto and its political minions won’t give up. We expect them to introduce a new Senate version of the DARK Act as soon as Congress returns after Memorial Day recess.

TAKE ACTION: Write and call your Senators and Member of Congress. Tell them to stop the DARK Act and let Vermont’s GMO labeling law take effect.

The two multinationals that teamed up during the Vietnam War to poison millions of people with their Agent Orange herbicide—St. Louis, Mo.-based Monsanto and Germany’s Bayer AG—are looking to become one.
 
Bayer has announced a bid to buy Monsanto in a deal that would expand Bayer's GMO and pesticide holdings and add drugs to Monsanto’s global portfolio. Monsanto has rejected the latest bid, but the two are still in talks.
 
If Monsanto, perhaps the most hated GMO company in the world, joins hands with Bayer, one of the most hated Big Pharma corporations on Earth (whose evil deeds date back to World War I and the Nazi era), the newly formed seed-pesticide-drug behemoth would have combined annual sales of $67 billion.
 
That’s a staggering figure. But here’s another, even more alarming: Combined, the new mega-chemical/seed company would control 29 percent of the world’s seed market and 24 percent of the pesticide market.

If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched last year by The Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed.
 
A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results, announced yesterday (May 25, 2016).
 
What makes that figure even more alarming is that many of you who sent in urine samples for testing probably eat more organic than non-organic food. Which suggests that either your organic food has been contaminated and/or you’re being exposed to glyphosate via unknown sources.
 
Worse yet? Children had the highest levels.
 
The testing, carried out by a laboratory at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), was the first-ever comprehensive and validated LC/MS/MS testing project to be carried out across America. According to the results, people who live in the west and mid-west tested higher than those living in other regions of the country.
 
It's way past time for the world to wake up and smell the poison.