As Dow pushes for its new corn called “Enlist” to be approved by regulatory bodies, the USDA is saying it needs ‘more time’ to conduct environmental studies. It will come down to a battle of the public’s insistence verses the coffers of mega-billionaire companies, and we will either see new GMO alternatives or regulatory action. It’s more than this one crop that hangs in the balance, though. Dow first wants to roll out Enlist corn, followed by soybeans and cotton to be used in combination with its new Enlist herbicide that combines the weed-killers 2,4-D and glyphosate.

Since the USDA seems to need some help in making their decision, let’s have a gander at just some of the studies coming out in the past months about the negative impact of GMO on the environment as well as our health. I encourage you to share this article with as many people as you can to get the word out, as well as March on Saturday, May 25^th in the March against Monsanto to help convince our government agencies that we’ve had enough of GMOs . Whether it’s from Monsanto, Dow, or anyone.

Here’s but some of the latest:

• The US Environmental Protection Agency has recently been slapped with a lawsuit because GMO agricultural practices and pesticide use is killing off our bees, a viral part of the ecosystem that helps to pollinate crops.

• GMO corn and the high fructose corn syrup which it is often used to make is killing us at staggering rates. Diabetes and cancer rates as well as obesity can all be traced back to GMO crops.

• The funky DNA in GMO crops is creating super bugs that then warrant more and more chemical fertilizers. When will it ever stop?

• GMOs are hiding in all kinds of foods since our government won’t support labeling, so the cereals you eat, the meals you dine on in restaurants, and even the ‘health’ food you consume is often laden with GMO.

• Organic farming can feed the world, even though we’ve been told otherwise.

The list goes on, ad infinitum. What other proof does the USDA need?

Even mainstream news websites like Reuters are now reporting on the cable details, as it becomes more than crystal clear that the United States government is literally assisting Monsanto in promoting it’s health-crushing genetically modified seeds and escalating the corporation above the law. The same corporation busted for running slave-like work rings where ‘employees’ were required to work on the GMO corn fields for up to 14 hours a day or have their pay withheld.

As it turns out, taxpayer dollars are being funneled into the pockets of international lobbyists who specifically negotiated deals that benefited Monsanto — not even the government itself. This even included crushing the biotech competition in many countries where Monsanto wanted the edge. All performed by the U.S. State Department with the taxes you pay each year from your own salary. What great use, huh? This leak is very similar to the one I discussed back in January of 2012, where the US threatened ‘trade wars’ against nations opposing Monsanto.

One circumstance from 2009 regarding Spain is particularly telling, as the cable tells us that the embassy was demanding ”high-level U.S. government intervention” at the “urgent request” of Monsanto to squash biotech competitors in the country so that Monsanto could come scoop up the market for itself. The organization Food & Water Watch has released a detailed report on the cables. A representative from the organization explained how this isn’t even just the promotion of Monsanto but a truly insane initiative by the US government to bend over backwards for the GMO juggernaut:

“It really goes beyond promoting the U.S.’s biotech industry and agriculture,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. “It really gets down to twisting the arms of countries and working to undermine local democratic movements that may be opposed to biotech crops, and pressuring foreign governments to also reduce the oversight of biotech crops.”

This revelation is truly amazing, even to me. I am rarely surprised with the latest Monsanto news, but the leaks reveal that the State Department even sent out pamphlets and DVDs to promote Monsanto. They even offered to help troubleshoot any problems that the countries had with letting Monsanto in for business.

Monsanto truly has the United States government in the palm of its bloody proverbial hand.

In a concerning decision made by the United States Supreme Court that once again highlights the close connection between Monsanto and government, the court upheld Monsanto’s financial crusade against struggling farmers who attempt to replant the GMO juggernaut’s patented GM seeds.

The decision should come as no real surprise when considering that Monsanto even has strong ties within the Supreme Court itself through Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas, who worked as a lawyer for Monsanto before obtaining the position. A connection that has been highlighted by a number of news outlets when it comes to the various Monsanto-related cases we have seen over the years. And one that is made even more blatant and concerning when considering that Clarence Thomas always fails to mention his connection.

But then again even greater events have taken place in the past that show how Monsanto really is above the law — especially when compared to the average citizen. If you or I committed the acts of the GMO giant over the past several decades, which of course is led by a group of executives who are likely beyond sociopathic and motivated purely be the almighty dollar, we’d be thrown in jail immediately.

Monsanto’s Repeated ‘Above The Law’ Status

Monsanto’s repeated acts of devastation against the people have generally ended in what amounts to a pesky settlement of X million dollars. This includes settlements over the Vietnam-era chemical warfare weapon Agent Orange, which killed hundreds of thousands and led to around 500,000 birth defects. It also includes a $93 million settlement with citizens of West Virginia’s Nitro, a town that was hit with dioxin as a result of Monsanto’s pollution from the creation of Agent Orange. As you may know, dioxin is one of the deadliest substances known to man.

The figures certainly are a lot to most people, but to Monsanto even 93 million is chump change. I personally believe, like many companies, they hide their true assets. But financials aside, the fact remains that they can pay their way out of jail. Instead of arresting the executives who made the decisions that led to deaths and other serious consequences, Monsanto is allowed to pay a settlement fee to the victims and avoid all criminal action.

And that’s key to being above the law itself.

Let’s also not forget the Monsanto-backed group that illegally used an FDA seal and fake quote to fight against the Prop 37 GMO labeling campaign. What happened to this group? Nothing. I was even on the press call line with the NY Times, LA Times, and others who were aggressively questioning why the Prop 37 campaign thought that the group was doing anything wrong. As it turns out, misuse of a United States government seal can lead to a $250,000 fine, twenty years in prison, and three years of supervised release — unless you’re sponsored by Monsanto.

Ultimately, Monsanto’s days are numbered. We see great movements like the March Against Monsanto and others that will come from it, and such forms of corruption will ultimately be peacefully rooted out from our government system.

The grassroots March Against Monsanto movement is spreading across the nation, and the initiative spells out an increasingly massive number of activists and concerned citizens who will ultimately be responsible for ending the GMO juggernaut through peaceful protest and the spread of information.

It really comes down to the basic understanding that what we want is real food — not chemical-laden junk that is riddled with genetically modified organisms. And of course Monsanto is responsible for the majority of such junk, holding a monopoly over the GM seed market with 90% of staple crop seeds under Monsanto control. Seeds that are sold to ignorant farmers who oftentimes end up killing themselves after they find that the seeds produce decreased yields and milk the farmers financially dry through the enforceable patents that come along with the seeds. Patents that Monsanto goons carefully enforce, preying upon small farmers through devious lawsuits and farm stakeouts.

Even organic and natural farmers are subject to such legal attacks, since it’s possible for the patented seeds (which India calls biopiracy) to blow over to such farms and begin to grow. This is also how widespread GMO contamination begins, to which the USDA simply responds ‘get insurance’. We can even go back decades to find that Monsanto was integral in the creation of the infamous Agent Orange, a Vietnam-era chemical warfare weapon which estimates say killed or maimed around 400,000 people and caused a startling 500,000 birth defects.

But the days where this information could hide as footnotes within the media are over.

March Against Monsanto Is Just The Beginning

The March Against Monsanto, which is a worldwide movement encouraging everyone to start their own local get together (here’s the Google document with all the organization info for every area) in defiance of the GMO juggernaut, is generating massive success. And with this success and media coverage comes awareness, which is absolutely essential. It was back in 2011 that I declared Monsanto be the worst company of 2011 in what became a media blitz campaign to spread awareness. Ultimately, it even led to one of my articles becoming the most highly shared articles of that year — something that I am extremely grateful to readers for.

March Against Monsanto is a lot like that campaign, as it is simple, accessible, and absolutely making waves in the media. Just wait until several thousand protesters converge on major cities demanding that our politicians enact legislation to combat Monsanto — a company which has numerous employees and former employees stationed within government.

But what’s more? Whatever comes after the March Against Monsanto will likely be even larger and more open source. It will likely take what worked with the March Against Monsanto campaign, enhance it, and apply it to more than just Monsanto as well. This is how we get our voices heard, through massive awareness movements like this. I encourage everyone to checkout the Google document and get involved in your area. Be friendly, pass out some articles from NaturalSociety, and spread the word — personable individuals are the most effective in communicating a message of truth to others.

What’s even more amazing is that the decision not only comes after the EU publicly discussed the major dangers surrounding the use of the pesticides, but after the USDA released a report surrounding the continued honeybee deaths and the related effects — a report in which they detailed pesticides to be a contributing factor. Just the impact on the honeybees alone, and we now know that these pesticides are killing aquatic life and subsequently the birds that feed upon them, amounts to a potential $200 billion in global damages per year. We’re talking about the devastation of over 100 crops, from apples to avocados and plums.

And there’s countless scientists and a large number of environmental science groups speaking out on this. The EPA has no lack of information the subject. And sure, there are other contributing factors to bee deaths, there’s no question about that. We have an environment right now being hit with Monsanto’s Roundup even in residential areas, we have chemical rain, we have insane amounts of EMF — but it’s pretty clear that neonicotinoid pesticides are at least a major contributing factor. And beyond that, they have no place in the food supply to begin with.

The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) details the EU ban that came right before the EPA acceptance of the death-linked  pesticide:

“The EU vote comes after significant findings by the European Food Safety Agency that these pesticides pose an unacceptable risk to bees and their use should be restricted. Along with habitat loss and pathogens, a growing body of science points to neonicotinoid pesticides as a key factor in drastically declining bee populations.”

So why are they approving this pesticide to now pollute the United States in what potentially amounts to an even larger capacity than the EU? A move that will ultimately escalate the price of food worldwide due to the likely nature of continued bee deaths and subsequent crop impact? That’s the power of phony corporate science.

Merck has paid out a total of almost $5 billion to settle nearly 27,000 Voixx civil law suits. This drug, intended for arthritic pain relief, created 27,000 cases of heart attacks and many deaths before Merck recalled it in 2004. Most of the suits occurred after the recall, which had raised a red flag for many Vioxx users and their surviving relatives.

Another $950 million was levied against Merck to pay for fines and civil settlements involving false advertising claims and fraudulent drug trial results for Vioxx. This hasn’t deterred Merck from promoting Gardasil and lobbying for governmental support to vaccinate minors without parental consent.

Vaccine manufacturing is a good business for sociopaths. Drug companies are exempt from direct liability for adverse results from vaccines. Vaccines require less testing than drugs for diseases, and they’re cheaper to manufacture. So they have a huge profit margin without financial liability risks.

Pushing a Dangerous Vaccine for a Non-Existent Threat

The scare tactic being used to promote Gardasil is cervical cancer protection. The human papilloma virus (HPV) has over 100 strains; Gardasil targets two that cause the most genital warts, while ignoring another 11 that can also lead to cancer. But ninety percent of HPV warts tend to heal on their own within two years. And they can be treated topically before then.

Bottom line, though inconvenient, HPV is not the death-warrant they are spinning it as. It usually goes away on its own or at worst is remedied by mild medical intervention. Even after young women get their three Gardasil-HPV shots, they still need to undergo Pap tests for early cervical cancer detection.

So Gardasil doesn’t even guarantee protection against cervical cancer. This data is knowingly omitted from Merck’s media press releases, doctor bribes, and political “lobbying” efforts.

VAERS reports 41 cases of cervical cancer following vaccinations with Gardasil. And VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting service) is voluntary for doctors and mostly unknown to parents and vaccinated adults. It’s estimated that perhaps only five percent of vaccine injuries get reported to VAERS. So these reports are a fraction of actual events.

Gardasil’s mounting known death toll is almost 75 since 2009, at last count (2012). This is in addition to the serious adverse effects of thousands, of which over 10% are permanent, painful disabilities such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome or other neurological and autoimmune maladies.

Related Read: Merck vs Monsanto – Fighting for the Worst Company Award (2011)

This tip of a mostly unreported iceberg should be ample evidence that the risks far outweigh Gardasil’s paltry benefits.

Lawsuits against Big Pharma based on vaccines’ adverse events are fire-walled by law and contained within The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), which was set up to have the federal government settle claims using federal funds, a fraction of which is collected from vaccine manufacturer approval fees.

Few parents whose children were vaccine-injured know about this non-jury federal court, into which access through its bureaucratic maze is difficult. The settlements are usually based on the lifetime medical fees for children’s vaccine damages or $250,000 for a child’s death.

Afterward, the parents are required to not discuss their case publicly. If they do, they risk losing their “hush” money.

Other Merck High-Risk Vaccines Without Benefits in the CDC’s Childhood Vaccination Schedule

Merck has managed to influence the medical mafia to include the Hep-B vaccine (HBV) on newborns. Hepatitis-B is transmitted sexually or by shared hypodermic needles only. Apparently, the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are now assuming all pregnant women are hypodermic injecting drug-users or promiscuously practicing unsafe sex.

Babies get several toxic Hep-B jabs before having a fully developed immune system without even testing the mother for Hepatitis-B.

The measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) three in one shot has left its share of broken, (potentially) autistic children. Merck simply ignores those disasters while using the media to spread untrue claims that measles epidemics are caused by the unvaccinated.

If you’re old enough, you may remember measles, mumps, and chicken pox as common relatively harmless childhood diseases that confer immunity when they leave. Sometimes mothers would gather at “measles parties” to expose their kids to one with a measles infection in order to confer lifetime immunity.

The MMR shot has also proven to not even temporally protect against these common childhood diseases with several breakouts occurring among population sectors that have been met the “herd immunity” criteria of vaccinating all or almost all the kids in a given population.

California politicians have set a precedent for creating legislation to support Merck’s coercing young women and soon young men with Gardasil jabs. Perhaps after many lives are ruined by Gardasil vaccinations in California, a class action suit against those state legislators is in order.

I will be covering more news on this as it develops, but the great voter turnout means that representatives are either waking up to the reality of GMOs or at least being forced by voters to go ahead and take action on the GMO labeling issue. And as we’ve seen in other states like New Mexico, it comes down to a grassroots campaign demanding that action be taken while spreading awareness on a national level.

Unfortunately the New Mexico initiative, as you may be aware, was ultimately shot down by massive lobbying (as may have been expected with the recent passing of incognito legislation like the Monsanto Protection Act).

But despite the mass lobbying and mountains of cash that go into squashing labeling, around 90 plus percent (or more on average depending on the polling institute) of the public is in favor of GMO labeling — and an increasingly large number of this percentage are turning into hardcore activists who are sick of Monsanto’s food monopoly.

Activism Can Trump Lobbyists

What’s also interesting to note about this legislation, which is similar to Prop 37, is that it’s really the farthest in the legal system that any such bill has gotten. Prop 37 ultimately came down to a vote in California, and we know there was extreme foul play there with the Monsanto-backed organizations who sought to sabotage the entire GMO labeling initiative due to profit incentives, but the Vermont bill here can quite simply be passed by the Senate and be on its way to implementation.

I am very hopeful about this bill, and I think if we gather enough activism on this front we can send a message to the Vermont Senate that effectively reads: We will not tolerate Senators who betray the health of the public for profits and lobbyist relationships. I encourage everyone, whether you live in Vermont or not, to generate awareness over this issue. Share this article far and wide, and start demanding that GMO labeling be taken seriously.

As an utter slap in the face, Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told Congress that the FDA was ‘a bargain among federal agencies.’ We certainly agree with you Ms. Hamburg. While:

• Hamburgers and hormone-laden milk are given to our children,

• Inexpensive and sometimes free cures for things like cancer are blocked (the Gerson Institute had to go to Tijuana to set up since the US won’t allow coffee enemas and organic green juicing as well as chelation to ‘cure’ cancer),

• Monsanto and other companies are given complete freedom to poison our foods, neglect to label GMO foods that can harm us and even permanently alter our DNA,

• Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to sell drugs that cause birth defects and heart attacks,

Why shouldn’t she receive a $1 billion dollar pay raise?

Related Read: 4 Proofs the FDA Does Not Care About Your Health

The drug industry would surely fund the FDA the 94% of funds, or nearly $770 million in order to keep the smoke and mirrors show going, but isn’t that a conflict of interest? How can one be working for the people to protect them from super germs like H1N1, prevent animals from being given low-grade antibiotics that hurt them and us, and continue to make aspartame, a known cancer-causing sugar substitute available to all. We really do want to keep eating things that hurt us and cause damage to our future generations – that’s why we hired you!

Here is the FDA’s mission statement:

“The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.”

Science and Technology magazine detailed just a few ways that the FDA is not fulfilling their mission statement:

• Because it’s science is weak and funded primarily by the companies which are supposed to be scrutinized.

• The FDA’s work force doesn’t have the capacity to test all the drugs the pharmaceutical companies want to sell.

• It’s information technology is so out of date.

• The organization offers a slow, secretive response to issues like the Cetero case involving MDS, with 4 years of fraudulent data, and that’s just the one we happened to find out about.

Yes, FDA, we think you should be given an extra billion a year even though you have grossly and horribly failed at delivering anything close to your very own mission statement. Thank you for pushing for genetically modified salmon, refusing to ban the hormone disrupting chemical BPA, and deeming walnuts illegal drugs.

If we were all given raises when we did our jobs so badly, we wouldn’t even be in this fiscal crisis. We could just fly our lear jets around the planet poisoning everything around us.

It’s virtually impossible these days to enter a grocery store, even one bearing the title of ‘natural’, and not encounter at least a few items that contain genetically modified ingredients. And for quite some time, this fact was not even known to the large majority of the United States public. Many simply did not even know what a GMO was, or what it could potentially do to their bodies (or the bodies of the children who they were feeding with genetically engineered processed food).

This, of course, stems from the fact that the FDA and Monsanto have decided that you aren’t allowed to know if your food contains GMOs. Even despite the fact that peer-reviewed research has pegged Monsanto’s best selling herbicide Roundup (which is a key part of Monsanto’s Roundup-ready GMO crops) to around 37 associated diseases, the FDA says it’s perfectly safe. So safe that it’s not even necessary to label in your food. So very safe that the only study that ever examined how Roundup and GMOs affect rats throughout their lifetime found that the rats developed tumors so large that it impacted their very ability to move.

It’s madness that has been identified for a long time by alternative news writers and readers, but thanks to the success of Prop 37 and other initiatives it has now hit the general public — and they’re not happy.

The Grassroots Will End Monsanto

Now enter campaigns like the March on Monsanto, which is slated to happen around the world on May 25th. It’s a grassroots event that has turned into a major organized movement thanks to countless local activists. The event is going on in major cities like San Diego and New York City, to small towns and even rural areas. It’s all being organized online via an open Google Document, where you can find the protest nearest to you and be a part of it. There’s also many open slots for organizers and speakers, so if you’re interested in that be sure to check that out as well.

The beauty of these events is that they are really the most effective at taking down any type of corrupt entity, as the grassroots aspect just empowers so many individuals without an underlying motivation for profits or anything of that sort. It really just comes down to people who want to eat real food and not some junk that’s spliced with the genetics of a spider. Or more importantly, the few people who understand that if we don’t stop genetically modified organisms today, they will develop technologically into what’s known as things like ‘biopharmaceutical‘ crops tomorrow.

I’ve said this back in 2011 and 2012, and I really do believe the grassroots will destroy Monsanto within the next 3-4 years (at most). The company has gotten away with Agent Orange and the hundreds of thousands of deaths from that, it has gotten away with horrendous pollution dumps, it has truly gotten away with so much that the average ‘small business’ (a business that isn’t in bed with the government agencies policing it) would never be able to. And the people aren’t having it anymore.

Checkout March Against Monsanto and head to a local event. Hand out some printed articles on GMOs from NaturalSociety or elsewhere, and just try and spread the word in a kind and inviting way to the general public.

The U.S. produces more sugar than any other country in the world – about 8 million tons annually. Sugarcane is the primary source, with (genetically modified) sugar beets coming in second. We also produce loads of genetically modified corn which is then turned into high-fructose corn syrup – about 2.2 million tons of the stuff every year. Corn is the most subsidized crop out there, only to be processed into harmful ingredients much of the time.

Artificial sweeteners, fake honey, honey, maple syrup, and the general delivery of sugar accounted for about 21 million tons through the 2000′s. More often, the sugars are in foods without you even knowing it – from frozen vegetables to snacks that are labeled ‘healthy’ or ‘natural’ with the FDA’s blessing.

A large government agency, funded by your tax dollars, called the US Department of Agriculture makes loans to individuals and companies that domestically produce sugarcane and sugarbeets. This has been going on since the early 2000′s. The farm bill also reinforced subsidies to corn growers – even those who have no choice but to grow Monsanto corn, a GMO crop.

Additionally, in 2012, beet and sugarcane growers borrowed $862 million dollars to support the price of sugar on the ‘free’ market.

The USDA is considering helping out the sugar farmers again by purchasing 400,000 tons of sugar, so they can pay back their loan. It sounds a little like the banking bailout, doesn’t it?

This all happens because about 33% of lobbyist money is tied into the sugar-drug trade. If you aren’t aware of how refined sugar affects the body – it is pretty much like cocaine. It causes you to crave more sugar, so what starts out as a little sweet-tooth ends up as a full on addiction. It is part of the reason the CDC estimates this country will have 140 million diabetics within 40 years, escalating the current $35 billion in profits from diabetes drugs to over $50 billion a year.

We should start to look at the lies our government agencies tell us about disease. For natural ways to cure diabetes, we can cut down on refined sugar consumption, for starters, and eat fig leaves, black seed, fenugreek and cinnamon instead. Experts agree, sugar is a health destroyer, so it’s time to omit it from your daily life.

Additional Sources:

Alliance for Natural Health