This is one area where I differ profoundly from what I call the Triple-Cees: Cookie-Cutter Conservatives.
Many people on the right automatically assume that corporations are good and government is bad, just as many on the left automatically assume that government is good and corporations are bad.
As a Christian and conservative, I believe that this is a fallen world, and that all are susceptible to doing bad things. Power tends to corrupt. Generally, government, being the Biggest Dog on the Block, is the most likely to also be the Baddest Dog. However, big and powerful companies, like Monsanto - and Facebook, and Google - are capable of also taking a Big Bite out of individual liberty, and to do a lot of harm along the way.
I am a lifestyle nutritionist, and I have done extensive research into Monsanto. I consider this corporation to be pervasively dangerous and evil: dangerous because their products threaten the health of humans and other creatures, evil because they know this and do it anyway.
It continually seeks to pervert and control (via patent) Nature for profit, and to suppress natural crops (e.g., heirloom seeds) and natural remedies.
In 2011 it bought out a non-profit research company, Beeologics, that was studying Colony Collapse Disorder [CCD] and then buried its research, apparently because it implicated Round-Up and GMO seeds as significant causative factors.
I am thoroughly convinced that Round-Up and GMOs contribute not only to CCD but to Leaky Gut syndrome [LGS] in humans.
LGS has far-reaching effects on auto-immune conditions, allergies, chronic bowel problems (e.g., IBS), and possibly artificially-induced autism.
Our bodies were designed by the same Creator who endowed us with unalienable rights, not by Monsanto’s money-mad scientists.
It's a damn good thing that Monsanto knows more about life science than their critics. I'm beginning to think their critics don't know jack squat about science.
Excellent information.