Monsanto Research Site in France Goes up in Flames
Monsanto suspects it was arson
Latest News
A Monsanto research site in France was enveloped recently in heavy flames due to a possible arson attack against the company. Two areas dedicated to maize research caught fire with the smell of petrol lingering in nearby hallways and throughout other areas of Monsanto’s building site.
Jakob Witten, an official spokesperson for the company told police that the company suspects arson because no electrical damage was found.
Witten said that this was unprecedented violence against the Big Ag company as no other arson attempts had been made in Europe to date. However, forty tons of GM sugar beets were torched in Oregon, sparking an FBI investigation, so the sentiment behind this latest arson, if it indeed was an act of violence, is not unprecedented.
As Real Farmacy points out:
“. . this is exactly the type of retribution many have warned about, when lawmakers and corporations refuse to honor the Constitution and instead engage in ‘legalized’ criminal acts such as enabled by the ‘Monsanto Protection Act.’”
The news comes as Monsanto announces the closing of 3 research and development centers as well as the termination of approximately 2,600 employees amid falling stock prices and GM seed support.
The French have often criticized the U.S. agribusiness model and though member states of the EU were recently given an option to forgo the cultivation of GM crops with new legislation, politicians recently tried to over-rule that legislation and force GM crops on EU states who have made it exceedingly clear they aren’t interested in growing them.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
Since they have a security company contracted, there should be pictures
as well as live feeds available, especially at a secured research facility.
It’s good to see that Monsatan is finally getting a dose of their own medicine. They should be permanently put out of business; BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE. Good for the French!
They think it might be arson.
Ya Think?
I guess someone did not like being poisoned with GMO CRAP Food.
ISIS did it 🙂
It is worthwhile to realize that before the Civil War the Monsantos of New Orleans were among the biggest slave traders in the United States. Other Monsantos were engaged in this trade in Brazil and the Caribbean as they had been, earlier, in Spain. These are the “values” of the Monsantos, going back centuries. Treachery against the whole human race seems to run in their blood.
they should be forced to eat only GMO food for the rest of their lives. So should the shills on this page.
The best news I have heard in a long time. We should burn down every laboratory that these murderers have built.
No pictures, no proof.
Hearsay or disinformation to further the divide.
Keep burning!
This claim is FAKE! ” forty tons of GM sugar beets were torched in Oregon”.
Here is what really happened :
“the night of June 8, when about 1,000 sugar beet plants on one property were destroyed. Three nights later, the destruction continued on another property, where another 5,500 plants were ruined. “It doesn’t look like a vehicle was used. It looks like people entered the field and destroyed the plants by hand,” said Paul Minehart, head of corporate communications in North America for Syngenta, a global agriculture corporation based in Basel, Switzerland.”
NO FIRE! NO 40 TONS! Just 2 fields of crops pulled up by hand and a lot of people suspect Syngenta pulled up their own crops since it was right on the verge of Jackson county banning agricultural use of GMOs.
It’s amusing that the Monsanto maggots talk about anti-GMO activists ‘losing the moral high ground.’ Monsanto has been caught falsifying ‘research,’ buying biased ‘research,’ attacking truthful studies, intimidating journals to not accept truthful ads about GMOs, and so forth. It has consistently LIED about the safety of its products, whether Agent Orange, Lasso, Roundup, or various GMOs. In India alone, hundreds of thousands of farmers are dead, directly due to Monsanto’s lies about its Bt cotton, Roundup, irrigation, and so forth.
People have been paying with their LIVES for the acts of criminal Monsanto and its lies about its pathogenic fake ‘food.’
Crash and burn, filthy Monsanto.
By resorting to violence you become as bad as those you condemn. Plus, you give those with power an excuse to exercise that power. Violence only begets more violence.
The war of all against all begun by the evil corporations and bankers.
Your spreading these lies are yet another symbol that the anti gmo crowd is losing. That is why in places like Colorado labeling was defeated by about a 2 to 1 margin. And why Arizona couldn’t even get enough signatures to get it on the ballet.
Monsanto is throwing its money at initiatives and at its legislative whores in order to murder informed consent and to control the govt and govt’l agencies. Monsanto is crashing and burning nonetheless. It’s firing employees, losing stock value, closing sites, facing the justified anger of normal people who want GMO filth labeled or banned. Monsanto (i.e., the PEOPLE who own and run it) said it wants to control the world’s food. If it did, it could murder any population it wanted to, and Monsanto has already shown its utter dishonesty and malignancy. Crash and burn, stinking Monsanto maggots. Only fascist ALEC will mourn your death.
Yes Monsanto is like a lot of companies, they expanded to much in the good times, and now that farm income has come back down to earth (thanks to the incredible record yields of gmos), they need to pull back a little. The rest is just your wrong opinions as usual.
Did you just say your opinion is wromg as usual? Thats an odd statement comimg from you.
Marketing 101: Differentiate your brand from the marketplace. Lobbying against labeling goes against the very basics of marketing. So then the questions arise, why would a company NOT want to proudly display its technical savvy? If the Monsanto was really an ambassador of GMO technology, it would label every product it creates, so consumers could make an informed decision about what they would like to put in their bodies. In passing the burden onto non-GMO food producers, they force the competition to label what they are not, leading to millions of dollars of re-branding. This creates a double negative marketing environment, which is absurd.
As Nikola Tesla wrote back in 1900, “Whether we could thrive on [artificial food] is very doubtful. We are the result of ages of continuous adaptation, and we cannot radically change without unforeseen and, in all probability disastrous consequences. So uncertain an experiment should not be tried.”
@Gmo Roberts, do you not see any correlation to the increase of GMO foods in the American diet to the increase of dietary-caused disease in the United States? With a control of other countries who do not consume GMO products and the lack of dietary-caused disease.
You only see a rise in gmos and disease what of other things? The rise in fast food? The rise of cell phones? They have all happened about the same time so to blame one with it hour looking at other causes is simply irresponsible.
Cell mphones has caused an increase in the incidence of Alzheimers disease and gmo a 400% increase in cancer.
Basically fast food is GMO.
organiclifestylemagazine dot com/doctors-against-gmos-hear-from-those-who-have-done-the-research
If gmos go away fast food will not, and it will be just as bad without gmos as it is with them. Shame you can’t grasp simple things, but again most idiots can’t.
Hey Bobbie McGee, how are you anyway?
You are correct! But be mindful when you throw around a non-sequitur. It makes you come across as either a disinformation specialist, or uneducated. The fast food companies will *gasp* re-brand themselves as health conscious. Wait, I believe they are in the process of doing just that!
As demand shifts towards non-GMO products, the supply will increase, lowering the price of all natural, or organically produced produce. We are now entering the growth (get it?) stage of the non-GMO product life cycle. Soon there will be a tipping point reached and GMO products will lose their leverage, as their counteroffensive marketing defense will have failed.
Possible, but what will make farmers switch to increase supply? In my area non gmo soybeans already have a $1.50 a bushel premium on them. That particular figure gets the company what they need, but it comes from fewer than 5% of the local farmers. Even some of them have stated they are switch to gmo as soon as the Enlist soybeans are released.
GMO.
Its a no go.
That is the same argument that the cigarette companies used to justify their product. The free market is a bitch, buyer beware. However, I am framing the argument as: the right the public has to information in making educated decisions. You throwing red herrings does nothing to add to your position in this debate.
Irresponsible: not capable of or qualified for responsibility, as due to age, circumstances; a mental deficiency or not responsible, answerable, or accountable to higher authority. I assume you refer to the mental deficiency part of the definition. This is an internet discussion, and thus ethos is off the table, leaving us with pathos and logos. However, I will guess that you are compensated for monitoring comment forums on this topic. You confuse the forest for the trees in your argument, good troll.
Fast food almost exclusively uses GMOs and thus weakens your side of the argument. Cell phones are another type of danger, since humans have never been exposed to this much radiation interference with our natural bio-electrical field. I did mention a control group of other countries. Cell phones and fast food chains exist in other countries. You should step out of the office more often. Other countries are actively banning GMOs for some reason. They must not have scientists, nor have their shills for science studied at American universities.
Refer back to the rules of debate (http://www.debatingsociety.ca/ns/rules/NS_Rules.pdf) and much more importantly, be mindful of logical fallacies (http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/eng207-td/Logic%20and%20Analysis/most_common_logical_fallacies.htm).
Monsanto bribing the corrupt politicians.
Which ones? The ones that didn’t vote your way? Where is the proof?
Oh Bob’O still promoting GMO ?
Do you work for monsanto? While not all genetically modified foods are bad, why not label them and let the consumer decide? Or does monsanto feel it knows what is best for everyone? If they have nothing to hide then what is the problem?
Don’t work for Monsanto, don’t even like them really. However, I do believe in gmos and a label without proper education will only lead to confusion with the average consumer.
“Hey kids; while you’re out smashing the state, keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.” – R. Crumb
Crash and burn, Monsanto – and take your paid maggots with you.
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” – Howard Zinn
Thankfully it sounds like no one was hurt. Resorting to violence is not the solution. Doing so is a sign that you’ve lost the moral position in an argument.
Those of you cheering this event should be ashamed. Grow up.
NO, fighting back against legalized crime against humanity is what this country was built upon! We have allowed corporations to take over our government and put our children in harms way! Petitions, letters, protests, calls, etc. have been ignored. IF this is legit arson from the anti-GMO side then it is more then justified given the circumstances…. But again, this is MONSANTO…. So that is a big IF….they probably did it themselves for a sympathy vote or to destroy evidence!
Agreed with all except the last statement. Monsanto considers any person who doesn’t buy its filthy products a liability, but its BUILDINGS are an ‘asset.’
Goodbye, Monsanto, and good riddance!
Lot the moral position? ROFLMAO. Monsanto has been killing people for decades. Its CEO and board of directors have no morality at all.
Exactly. People protesting Monsanto have the moral ground, but they lose it when they resort to violence.
Monsanto violently Bribes the American Government.
What exactly is a “violent bribe”?
A threat of violence if you don’t take the bribe.
Are you aware of evidence that Monsanto has threatened violence against the American government? Sounds like hyperbolic BS to me, but I can be easily convinced by compelling evidence. So, let’s see it.
What type of paid troll are you. Are you working for the FDA , monsanto or another murdering corporation.
Ad hominem attack. If you have an actual question, I’d be happy to discuss. But I don’t have time for people only interested in logical fallacies.
Bollucks, you got time.
BRAVO!!! My undying gratitude goes to the arsonist!
THE SOLUTION TO ALL OUR COMMON PROBLEMS:
We can end this madness peacefully from our easy chairs in our spare time. Humanity desperately needs real democracy: the People’s own system designed to perpetually define the true will of the mind of Mankind regarding everything for all to know. Our will is never defined. It’s maligned. We have no voice in our own affairs ~ no mechanism that enables us to speak collectively. There has never been a democracy on Earth, because the banksters never allowed it. Our unity is their worst nightmare. What they erroneously call democracy only manifests their will. So, let’s call that deMockery!
Science recently proved the universal law that observation is manifestation. Real democracy will show everyone that our vast majority only wants peace, truth, justice, freedom and prosperity for Posterity. And, Our global observation of these truths will begin to automatically manifest them. If you wish to end this insanity, please, redirect your resources toward creating real democracy for the second time in history. (The first was my own 2001 attempt at http://www.MajorityVoice.org or dot com.) You can help save your children from a “Soilent Green” future. I’ll help in any way I can. Thanks for reading.
Thanks chrissy for show us how poorly the anti-gmo movement is actually doing!!! The scientific experts have overwhelmingly stated gmos are safe!!! Labeling has been nothing short of disastrous, especially all of the failed US attempts. And now the only thing the deniers have left is violence. This method too will meet with terrible results for this group that are trying to deny the world a good food supply.
There is NO Scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs!
While some scientists—often with ties to the chemical, biotech, and seed industries—claim that there is a scientific consensus on GMOs, there are many who disagree. The following link contains a peer-reviewed study stating that claims about the existing consensus on GMOs are not supported by the existing scientific literature:
http (colon) //www (dot) enveurope (dot) com/content/pdf/s12302-014-0034-1 (dot) pdf
you can also google gmo dangerous talk to see studies with independent money showing the safety of gmos.
NO you cannot there are NONE! Please post just ONE Independent chronic toxicity study, done to deduce toxicology in humans, minimum of 3 mammalian species (rodents, pigs, dogs or monkeys) preferably multi generational, that indicates safety in the long-term consumption of GMOs and their associated pesticides. One other caveat~ it must be a GM variety currently on the market today.
Look them up yourself I told you where to go.
Who would go to a paid activist for information?
Any intelligent person would be more than willing to listen, and then try to confirm it to see if it is real. Of course you already bought into the anti gmo lies and they have warped your brain.
You have been paid by the pro gmo murderers and you are conniving in the death of millions of people.
I wish I could get paid for showing your stupidity to the readers.
Actually, I’ll push self reliance on a community level. If a community can work together they can survive anything. The divide has been in for a long time.
When the corporations go or decide, all will fall since they aren’t setup to survive on their own.
Gather your communities and prepare, local gardening, community events for self reliance and manufacture through locally owned business.
Information and knowledge.
More thoughts from fantasy land.
I’m very sorry your ignorant to the history of mankind, they did local and community support for thousands of years. The unwritten part of history is yet to be seen, basic essentials produced outside of local areas and Nation has no written history for reference during a economic collapse.
Man has traded with others for thousands of years to obtain things that their community was unable to produce. It is a shame a moron like you doesn’t know history.
Where you going?
Nowhere.
Please post the chronic toxicity studies that show safety for the New GM apple, potato and salmon, that they are safe to consume long term!
gmo potatoes have been banned in South Africa.
I translated your statement in Google translate and it said “You can also google blah blah blah independant blah gmo blah”
Thank you for the link.
What bull.
Bulls happen to live gmos!!
Yes, they “live” GMOs. That’s why CAFO meat is dangerous.
We wouldn’t have needed CAFO if lazy people like yourself would have stayed on the farm and did real work.
There you go lying again. Are you a congenital liar, or did eating your master’s GMO filth turn you into one?
Farmers are at an all time low, people are at an all time high. Fewer people must produce more food than ever. That really isn’t even in question.
Yes and so lets feed them food that will kill them off, generation after generation. No one falls for GM bull.
I know, it looks like the anti gmo lies have you, so sad. Twenty years with zero issues, maybe after thirty you will come to your senses.
These paid trolls are ignorant of the gmo experiments done on rats. They all died of cancer and some of the 3rd generation survivors became infertile
How could they be infertile if they were dead? You are a funny one there lemonhead.
Can’t you read fukhead?
Guess not, but I can see. All the rats that continue to plague grain elevators and farms. All eating gmos and very healthy.
I smell a rat too. His name is Robert.
Silly billy you are.
These shills aren’t ignorant to the facts, they’re just dirty liars who can’t get real jobs. They’d be on here telling everyone pedophilia is good sex education for toddlers if they were paid too. They are one of the lowest forms of life on the internet.
GMO paid pro troll.
The greedy corporations put the small farmers out of business. Food is a basic necessity and should not be a luxury business.
Then you should support gmos as they help keep costs down and are the same nutritiously. Thanks for pointing that out.
Do you want me? Id want me too.
Less farmer because agri-business like disgusting Monsanto buy up all the farms to turn them into unhealthy producers of carcinogenic garbage.
no one would have sold to them in the first place if they didn’t want out. Secondly, show me all these acres these companies supposedly owns.
Why don’t you put some dishwashing liquid on your food and drink a glass of Roundup poison if it so safe. We will watch you do it and get an objective person to buy the roundup poison so ther won’t be any scams.
you use gasoline everyday, so why don’t you drink it?
Thats just mean. Your mother would be ashamed.
The unscientific establishment bribed by Monsatan.
I’m sure this is covered by insurance and really didn’t hurt them at all. I understand the sentiment however.
Yes isn’t it nice that we have people that are willing to destroy millions of dollars worth of equipment and research. Even if the insurance covers the cost, it will be us that will have to foot the bill with higher premiums. We all have to pay for the acts of criminals.
Yes. It’s wonderful. Crash and burn, Monsanto.
Yes raise insurance and food costs for all, especially for the ones that can’t afford it.
What a bunch of crap. 1) It won’t do that, and 2) you don’t care about normal people. You support the corporatist-fascist GMO industry.
Yes the industry that feeds the normal people.
You are correct Gmo, it feeds them poison. All GM food should be banned.
Yes, after twenty years of gmos and zero problems I see your point. This is sarcasm, I thought I would explain it to you since you seem to miss simple points.
A 400% increase in the incidence of cancer from gmo all over the world.
Your proof?
The proof is scum like Monsanto pays scum like you to be on here. You’re not getting very far with your bullshit though are you.
Just keep calm. GMO’s are bad for your health.
Rob says GMO is haterproof son!
Honestly, gmo/monsanto guy, why not label them if they are safe? What’s the big deal if they are completely safe as you proclaim then why try to hide what you do?
Because you want something isn’t good enough. They have been proven safe and affordable. If people want a non gmo label then fine.
GMO: Great for profit books, bad for people’s health.
The industry that murders the poor. A friend of mine recently died of prostrate cancer from eating gmo porridge.
Your proof as to what caused the cancer?
Hereis my O face.
We will only raise the prices for all the evil biotech companies and the people who work for them like you and the other paid trolls.
Your knowledge of how insurance works is as bad as the rest isn’t it.
You must pay more and more till the insurance decides not to insure Monsatan anymore. The insurance company is complicit in crimes against humanity.
There is always someone that will want the business. These criminals, if there are any, will be brought to justice.
Monsanto will be brought to justice. One way or the other.
LOL, whatever. As I have said many times before, not really a fan of them anyway. Give me BASF and Dow any day.
Exactly Rob! Monsanto execs will be brought to justice.
Lets hope this is the first of many such acts in public protection.
Burn baby burn. ?
Haha! Great news! Hope everybody engages in torching ALL MonSATAN locations. Perhaps this is the only and best way to GET RID OF THIS PLAGUE FOREVER! Maybe MonSatan will be ‘visiting’ one of these places and go down in flames where he belongs for eternity.
The tipping point has been reached!
like Phillip answered I cannot believe that you can make $9890 in 4 weeks on the computer.try this website on `my` `prof1le`
$vvvvvvv
It’s too bad the tipping point on fucking spammers hasn’t been reached.
I hope that this is just the beginning of Monsanto arsanals worldwide. If this is the only way to stop the Corrupt Governnments and the corruption of these Demonic Biotechs, then whoever has put fire to Satan’s building sites should be commended!
GOOD, Burn the rest of Monsanto’s fuckin poison !