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That is one of the stupidest arguments I’ve read recently on FR and I’ve read a lot of stupid stuff.

France is not making economic war - they just don’t want to be pressured to accept GMO’s - and last time I checked - that’s their choice.

Monsanto is a multi-national corp (I wouldn’t classify it as a US co) that has very, very deep tentacles. They are NOT good and they don’t give a rat’s a$$ about the US.

If foreign countries conspire together to exclude US products because they can’t compete it is definitely economic war. This was also true of the US embargo against Japan in 1941, which resulted in Pearl Harbor, which was not justified, but was motivated by the embargo. They don’t call such activities ‘Trade Wars’ for nothing.

1989 : (ALAR SCARE -- See FENTON, WWW) One of Fenton's most publicized achievements was his 1989 attack against the producers of Alar, a preservative used in apples that he erroneously reported as carcinogenic. The misinformation Fenton fed to the news media triggered mass hysteria and caused the apple industry to lose over $200 million in revenue. Later, in a memo uncovered by the Wall Street Journal, Fenton bragged, "We designed [the campaign against Alar] so that revenue would flow back to the Natural Resources Defense Council from the public." The Natural Resources Defense Council was another of Fenton's primary clients. --------This profile [of David Fenton] was adapted from the article titled "Peaceful Tomorrows, Leftists Todays," written by Thomas Ryan and published by FrontPageMagazine.com on March 17, 2004.

Monsanto is a multi-national corp (I wouldn’t classify it as a US co) that has very, very deep tentacles. They are NOT good and they don’t give a rat’s a$$ about the US.

Absolutely! There are many people on this forum sadly misguided.

There are institutions that have no interest whatsoever in the US taxpayer except what they can rape them for, and Monsanto is one of them; no different than Goldman Sachs. One may call this capitalism, but when the threshold is transgressed it becomes something else.

There are indeed some on this forum who do realize how companies cave to Obama et.al. And that is what the lobby power is all about. There really is a corrupt government-business cabal subverting the independence of the taxpayer in the US. It was called Fascism.

Monsanto is not a friend of any who don't work for them.

Big big mistake for those who claim to be conservative, then blindly support certain big businesses. This is a primary reason for dismantling the power and authority of leftist centralized government.