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Kickstarter-Style Campaign Raises Funds To Build A Bomb

A new Kickstarter-style campaign looks to fund a bomb designed to blow up Monsanto and anybody else who sees food as a product they can manipulate for profit. Crowd-sourced funding has famously funded i-phone docks, watchbands, and bluetooth speakers with millions of dollars. Nice projects but in five years will anybody care? 

Now the same tool is being harnessed as a way to take back the right to know if our food has been genetically engineered. The bomb is made of money and will be used to get genetically engineered foods labeled in California. Monsanto has been fighting the whole way. Why? Maybe it's because in countries that require GMOs to be labeled consumers have rejected them. Yeah. That might be it. Or maybe it's because the genetic engineering they do is designed primarily to allow their patented GMO crops to withstand massive doses of the herbicide "Round-Up" without dying. Oh, and they sell the Round-Up, too. Might be that. 

What we know is that they are not concerned about what is happening to the health of Americans. As Americans who are used to kicking the ass of anybody who threatens our way of living, it's time to drop a bomb. Monsanto is an invader. An enemy. And our government is sworn to protect this country from enemies both foreign and domestic. After decades of allowing Monsanto and others to corrupt our politicians and regulatory agencies, to intimidate everyone from small farmers and state legislators to the Governor of Vermont, it’s time to say “No more!” Tell Monsanto and the rest of the Biotech Bullies that we demand the right to know whether the food we eat has been genetically engineered and it needs to be clearly labeled.

None of us has enough money on our own. But together we are mighty. And not to be fucked with. 

Click here to drop the bomb.

https://fooddemocracyaction.actionkit.com/donate/drop_money_bomb_on_monsanto/?akid=547.277486.7P8k5c&rd=1&t=8

 

Reader Comments (3)

Beautiful. The fact that people in countries that require GMOs to be labeled consumers have rejected them forcibly demonstrates that any interested party who objects to transparency has something to hide.

May 10, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterGeoff

This is great! (and 'hello' to Geoff). :)

As we continue to see thru the over-staged propaganda, everything main-streamed is relentlessly marching to it's sell-by date. The huge lies will die in the end. One by one everyone will begin to have the courage and desire to follow new ways as the ways of the old farts has become too ludicrous and dangerous. Stay young at heart and fearless!


Blessings~

May 11, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterIN-B-TWEEN

The industry says that GMO reduces the amount of herbicide used on crops. Makes sense in theory and was true at the very start, and there has been a reduction in pesticides. However, herbicide resistant crops more than made up for the early benefits. 1996 to 2008 herbicide use increased by 383 million pounds!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMcropsIncreasedHerbicide.php

May 11, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterNonsanto

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