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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Actor Mark Ruffalo Calls Out Monsanto “You Are Poisoning People”

It’s not every day you meet the head of Monsanto, which is why actor Mark Ruffalo knew he needed to take advantage of the opportunity and speak out for millions when he addressed the company’s CEO, Hugh Grant.

Before a segment for the movie Spotlight with Mike Rezendez, Ruffalo was in the green room watching Grant on screen giving “slippery non-answer[s] to every question he was asked.”

Ruffalo wrote that he was disgusted watching the “guy who is responsible for so much misery and sickness throughout the world slime his way through his interview.” Which is why when Grant came through the green room, he simply told him this:

“You are wrong. You are engaged in monopolizing food. You are poisoning people. You are killing small farms. You are killing bees. What you are doing is dead wrong.”

Likely taken a bit aback, Grant responded: “Well, what I think we are doing is good.”

Of course he did. And then the exchange was over.

But not before Mark had the opportunity to contemplate the evil of Monsanto and outline the written piece he would soon share with EcoWatch.

The informed activist knows that when people get paid the kind of money Grant gets paid, their thinking becomes incredibly clouded and the first thing to go is their morality. It’s sad, but it’s time the public is made aware of how toxic greed can be toinnate humble nature.

“Hugh, it’s not your messaging that makes you and your company horrible. It’s the horrible stuff you guys do that makes you and your company horrible. People don’t walk around making horrible stories up about good companies because they got nothing else better to do with their time. People like you and your company are horrible because … you are horrible. No matter how much jumping around you do on morning shows (where no one can really nail you down for the horrible stuff you do), you will still always be horrible and people will always greet you the way I did, when you go around trying to cover up the fact that you are horrible,” wrote Ruffalo.

Monday, November 7, 2016

Obama signs ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ written by Monsanto sponsored senator

President Obama has just signed a bill into law that was part-written by the same billion-dollar corporation that will directly benefit from the legislation.

Pres. Obama signed his name to H.R. 933 on Tuesday. The bill is a continued resolution spending bill only approved in Congress days earlier.

78 pages deep within the bill, buried under terminology and enough jargon to become nonsensical, exists a provision that specifically and wholly protects biotech corporations such as the Monsanto Company from any form of litigation.

“ With the president’s signature, agriculture giants that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds are given the go-ahead to continue to plant and sell man-made crops, even as questions remain largely unanswered about the health risks these types of products pose to consumers.”

Although the green light of approval was given by both the House and Senate, more than 250,000 people signed a petition asking the president to veto the spending bill over the biotech rider tacked on, an item that has since been widely referred to as the “Monsanto Protection Act.”

IB Times’ Connor Sheets writes:

“But Obama ignored the petition instead choosing to sign a bill that effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of GMO or GE crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future.”

You can learn about the bill a little more thoroughly with James Brumley, a reporter for Investor Place. He explains just how dangerous the rider is now that biotech companies are allowed to bypass judicial scrutiny.

Up until it was signed, he writes,

“The USDA [US Department of Agriculture] oversaw and approved (or denied) the testing of genetically modified seeds, while the federal courts retained the authority to halt the testing or sale of these plants if it felt that public health was being jeopardized. With HR 933 now a law, however, the court system no longer has the right to step in and protect the consumer.”

**This was originally featured on organicandhealthy.org