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Bloated biotech giant Monsanto has admitted to using their influence to block an initiative introduced by Boulder, Colorado to ban the growing of genetically modified crops on county soil.
While county officials and farmers claimed that Monsanto influence had nothing to do with the blocking of the health conscious legislation, the company itself has admitted to being involved.
Furthermore, Monsanto may have actually set up phony ‘GMO co-existence’ protests in order to voice phony public support against the bill. After the admitted involvement of Monsanto and the curious protests, the county commissioners changed their formerly anti-GMO tune.
Instead of banning GMO crops, the Boulder County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to allow for the growing of some GMO crops on county-owned open land.
Pro-Monsanto Farmers Deny Admitted Monsanto Involvement, Pushed for GMO Crops
Paul Schlagel was one of the farmers who originally pushed for GMO sugar beets in Boulder, Colorado. That year Schlagel wrote a letter to the Parks and Open Space Department, asking for permission to plant crops resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide that has been known to cause cancer and pollute local water supplies. Citing claims fabricated by Monsanto that have proven to be false in the past such as a decrease in pesticide use, Schlagel urged country officials to allow for the planting of GMO crops.
Around this time, Monsanto was launching a major initiative to capture the sugar beet market, with 95% of sugar beets ultimately becoming Roundup Ready by the year 2009. Monsanto got their wish, thanks to pro-Monsanto farmers like Schlagel. Now Schlagel is denying any involvement with Monsanto or other biotech corporations in regards to the blocked GMO ban despite Monsanto actually admitting to influencing the decision.
Schlagel even responds to the accusations that Monsanto voiced by not only denying the claims, but also by issuing a strong response that would seem quite anti-Monsanto if you did not know the full story. ”Monsanto doesn’t own me,” Schlagel said in a statement to the press. Meanwhile, Thomas Helscher, the company’s director of corporate affairs, has stated their direct involvement through e-mail reported on by the Boulder, Colorado press.
'Monsanto is a stakeholder in these proceedings as our company name and our innovations have been repeatedly named in the public discussions, and the safety and benefits of those innovations has been questioned,' wrote Helscher. 'Therefore, we submitted official comments to the Commissioners and also testified at the Dec. 8 hearing. We also have answered questions asked of us by our Boulder County farmer customers during this public and open process.'Is Monsanto Funding Phony ‘GMO Co-Existence Protests’?
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Legitimate anti-GMO grassroots protests have also been ongoing in Boulder, voicing opposition against food tyrant Monsanto and Boulder officials. It is only a matter of time until revealing information regarding Monsanto’s full involvement is leaked to the media. Whether or not they will cover it is in question, but we sure will.
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6 comments:
I live in Boulder and visit the Occupy site daily, it's across the street from where I work. I was there yesterday when a pair of Whackenhut security guards came over to the Occupy camp from the library, several hundred yards away, and started to systematically ask the Occupiers about GMO planting in Boulder. Most of the people asked didn't seem to answer except by saying stuff like GMO's suck and 'go back to Florida' (where Whackenhut was founded) but still, I found this systematic collecting of info by private security guards in service to the corporations to be suspicious. The Powers That Be have their minions everywhere and they're trying to clamp down on the system and seal the deal on their fascist dreams, but the Almighty has different plans for us all so let's smile and go along for the ride. Peace!
I am incredibly disappointed in Boulder. I just can't believe they're going to allow GMOs on Open Space.....and using Roundup of course. I thought Boulder as a whole was more informed than that!
Boulder has some of the biggest Military corporations in the country. It is full of rich nuevo-yuppies who all lend tacit support to the military industrial state.
I have tried to find any vids on the fake protest and hired actors portraying protesters, put on by monsanto, without much luck...
If anyone can send me a link to one or more vids of their hoax protests, that would be very cool...
The European Union and the United States have strong disagreements over the EU's regulation of genetically modified food. The US claims these regulations violate free trade agreements, the EU counter-position is that free trade is not truly free without informed consent.
What is the evidence that the protests were phony? It sounds like something you just want to be true. The "Admitted Monsanto involvement" you cite is limited to submitting documents and answering questions, not staging protests. This is also rather ironic because some of the financial backers of the anti-GE ads and protests have refused to be named. Does that make their opinions phony?
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