MODUS-OPERANDI OF A SERIAL KILLER : MONSANTO.
When something serious is going on , we can no more put on the mask of an hypocrite with "politically correct" attitude. Dude !
Every Indian should do something to save our country even if it is just typing on Facebook. DROP BY DROP WE CAN GROW IN TO A RIVER OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND SANITY AGAINST OBLIVIOUSNESS AND INSANITY.
When a pick-pocket takes off your purse, you carry and shout and try to beat the hell of that man to get back your 20rs in that purse, then why we should keep mum and do nothing when Big corporates are bribing to sell products they know that are not safe (otherwise, why they have to bribe in the first place ? ).
India needs no just inform with insipid news and manipulated media productions, we need quality documentaries on television that is impartial in his approach. Very sad to say that we are poor in getting reliable information. Television like ARTE should be diffused in Indian languages.
Why impartial information from ethically motivated medias ?
Just to know the truth so that we may adjust our social actions to protect what is good for us and avoid what will be a danger for us. It is as simple as this. Not complicated.
What happened in Indonesia, a heavily invaded country by MONSANTO, can serve as a lesson for India too, that 's why I want to inform about how Monsanto played the conspiracy game there to
preempt here in INDIA.
Here is that Indonesian story :
When a law or a decree was likely to have an adverse effect on
Monsanto's business interests in Indonesia, Monsanto lobbied the
environmental ministry to withdraw the decree.
Sometime in February 2002, an employee of the consulting firm
which represented Monsanto visited an senior official at his home and
gave him an envelope containing US$ 50,000 in $100 bills. Despite the
cash payment, the official never repealed the requirement of an
environmental assessment of Monsanto's products (Saraswati 2005).
Bribery and corruption might be a common feature in many countries
to ensure that even normal procedures are undertaken, but this case lies
different.
For decades Monsanto has been claiming that their GM crops are
tested and safe. Now it appears that Monsanto employees use bribery to
try to buy the company out of the need for an environmental impact
statement.
To make matters worse, Monsanto tried to buy itself out of the
requirements of environmental studies in a region where it had been shown
that the environmental differences between the US and Indonesia were so
big that Bt cotton varieties released earlier failed and had to be taken
off the market.
The questions now go beyond Indonesia. If Monsanto finds it necessary to
bribe at least 140 officials and family members for half a decade in a
country that only makes less then 1% of its overall revenue (0.8% of the
overall revenue of 5 billion USD, Monsanto 2004) - what is there to
expect in other places where there's more at stake? All safety data for
Monsanto's GM crops - in terms of human health - are provided to
regulators in countries around the world by Monsanto themselves. As GM
Watch (2005) asks: "If they go to corrupt lengths to avoid impact
studies, what chances are there of data manipulation when it is totally
under Monsanto's control?"
Or should we see it as a success story? The farmers and NGOs protesting
against Bt cotton were right all along, and not even bribery in a country
that is in the Top Ten of the most corrupt countries in the world could
get Monsanto out of the need for environmental testing.
http://www.nwrage.org/content/extensive-article-monsanto-bribes-indonesia
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