Friday, March 23, 2012

Latest Monsanto ad Campaign

Arrived into DC this morning and was caught off guard by these ginormous completely offensive and outrageous banners hanging at the end of the DCA bridge to Metro. That's right - these banners were inside of the airport... And I thought after going through airport security in Seattle (full-body scan) I was done handing in written complaints to airport officials.       
                                                                            As it turns out when you go to Monsanto's home page these images are all the first things you see, all part of their feed Indonesia image clean up campaign. Fortunately I had the privilege of sharing my airport outburst with another traveler, also staring at the advertisements in complete bafflement. 

Yes, Monsanto, by introducing a high yielding GMO corn in Indonesia in the 70s for decades you have empowered farmers to drive down the price of a crop thereby making corn unprofitable to farmers growing native varieties,  contaminated their native corn varieties, and made a huge profit while at it. Congratulations. Let's go lie about it.

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