<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">I realize that some people try to be "fair" to Monsanto and suggest that the company should not be criticized so much for the terrible practices they pursue around the world, including Vietnam.<br>
<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">However, an item such as the one below <i>must be shared </i>with anyone who is concerned about global corporate giants buying their way into countries such as Vietnam.<br>
<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">NGOs, beware.<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br>
</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">CHUCK</span><br>
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Vice President, Veterans for Peace Chapter 160 (Hoa Binh)<br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></h2><h2><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Monsanto buys a food prize</span></h2><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>Monday, October 14, 2013</em>���|���Posted by Jim Hightower<br></span>
</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> As Lily Tomlin has noted, "No matter how cynical you get, it's almost impossible to keep up." </span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> For example, imagine if a prestigious group announced that this
year's "World Environmental Prize" will be awarded to BP for its unique
contribution to the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico. Too absurd, you say?</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Right, but try this one: An Iowa group announces that the "World
Food Prize" will go to Monsanto for pushing its patented, pricey,
genetically-tampered Frankenseeds on impoverished lands as an "answer"
to global hunger. This would be so morally perverse that the "cyn" in
cynical would be spelled S.I.N. Yet, it's actually happening.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Rather than encouraging sustainable farming and self-sufficiency
in impoverished communities as a way to alleviate poverty and
malnutrition, the World Food Prize has been "won" by a profiteering,
biotech, seed-and-chemical monopolist that's the freakish opposite of
sustainability. Monsanto is globally infamous for bullying family
farmers, bribing and corrupting governments, stiffing independent
scientific inquiries into its hokum, running false ads and fraudulent PR
campaigns, and going all out to keep consumers from knowing that the
crops produced by its seeds contain alien, bioengineered DNA and have
not been tested for longterm health and environmental problems.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Why would this avaricious outfit get any sort of award, much
less one that can give it a false legitimacy as a corporate "savior" for
the world's poor? Perhaps because Monsanto is a major funder of the
World Food Prize. Indeed, the foundation that hands out the award is
headquartered in downtown Des Moines in a historic building that
recently got a spiffy remodeling, thanks to a $5 million donation from �
you guessed it � Monsanto.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> How cynical is that? Even Lily Tomlin wouldn't have imagined it. </span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<em><p>"Basu: Food Prize goes too far in honoring Monsanto," <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130630/BASU/306300070/Basu-Food-Prize-goes-too-far-honoring-Monsanto" target="_blank"> www.desmoinesregister.com</a>, June 29, 2013.</p>
<p>"Executive at Monsanto Wins Global Food Honor," <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/monsanto-executive-is-among-world-food-prize-winners.html?_r=0" target="_blank"> www.nytimes.com</a>, June 19, 2013.</p>
<p>"The World Food Prize, Brought to You by Monsanto," <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/06/why-did-john-kerry-announce-world-food-prize" target="_blank"> www.motherjones.com</a>, June 19, 2013.</p>
<p>"Welcome to the Hall of Laureates," <a href="http://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=38176&audienceID=1" target="_blank"> www.worldfoodprize.org</a>, 2013.</p>
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