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Today’s article in Dr. Mercola’s weekly nesletter bowled me over.He’s upset that Forbes Magazine has named Monsanto as Company of the Year. Well, yeah!

Read the whole article and boycott Forbes, unsubscribe or whatever it is you can do to show you are unhappy with their choice. Good grief. Go here for the full article.

This is a partial list of the “do-good” things Dr. Mercola lists in his article that Monsanto has done. In my humble opinion, Forbes must be in their sway to say Monsanto rates anything less than being shut down. Just their terminator seeds alone would qualify them in my mind. Do you know about them? If you don’t, heads up!

• Secretly discharging PCB-laden toxic waste into an Alabama creek, and dumping millions of pounds of PCBs into open-pit landfills for decades after PCBs were banned in the US for being a possible carcinogen.
• Being found guilty of bribery to bypass Indonesian law requiring an environmental assessment review for its genetically engineered cotton.
• Last year, the supreme court of France found Monsanto guilty of falsely advertising its herbicide Roundup as “biodegradable” and “environmentally friendly.” Scientific evaluation discovered that glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, is acutely toxic to fish and birds and can kill beneficial insects and soil organisms that maintain ecological balance. Additionally, the surfactant ingredient in Roundup is more acutely toxic than glyphosate itself, and the combination of the two is even more toxic.
• In 2007, the South African Advertising Standards Authority also found Monsanto guilty of lying when advertising that “no negative reactions to Genetically Modified food have been reported.”
• According to one EPA scientist, Monsanto doctored studies and covered-up dioxin contamination of a wide range of its products. She concluded that the company’s behaviour constituted “a long pattern of fraud.”

Go here for the full article.