To Monsanto With … by Debi Pellar

I recently read an article entitled, “Why We Hate Monsanto” and it has been on my mind ever since.

I suspect that there are very few (if any) folks that share a genuine love of nature and all things radiantly healthy who can also support, in good conscience, the heinous technologies of Monsanto.

It would be difficult (if not impossible) to exaggerate all that has transpired.

The beliefs and actions of this company have been both mind boggling and mind numbing to those watching in disbelief.

They have repeatedly taken on the role of bullies in pinstripe suits.

And they have left no stone unturned when it came to manipulating virtually everything from our farmers to chickens, pigs, cows, even the lowly ear of corn has not been safe from their salivating gaze … much like a herd of feral pigs on a wild rampage to mindlessly destroy everything on their path.

In the face of everything Monsanto spins, it has always been glaringly apparent that they have never had our best interests in mind.

And with every article and every testimony that I have read over the years, my hackles seem to be raised to even higher heights than before and quite honestly, yours should be too.

Thinking of Monsanto has brought on a vision (to many of us) of Mickey Mouse in “Fantasia” wielding all of his immature and very raw power around .. oh so chaotically.

Most ironically, Disney and Monsanto have been sleeping with each other in the very same bed for decades … along with our U.S. Supreme Court justices and FDA officials, just to name a few.

And think about this, will you?

If an individual person presented him/herself to a mental health agency with as many strikes against them as Monsanto has; this individual would immediately be diagnosed with a wide range of disorders such as:

borderline personality disorder, obsessive/compulsiveness, narcissism, schizophrenia, domestic violence, suicidal tendencies and more.

Yet, when a bigshot multinational corporation flexes the very same muscles, they are seen as robust and even healthy as long as their stockholder’s shares are very fat and happy indeed.

However, for the sake of brevity, it is beyond the scope of this blog to specifically chronicle all that Monsanto has done in the name of unwholesome and severely reckless food production procedures and practices.

(If you are unfamiliar with this company, you can get further information at organicconsumers.org or Wikipedia for a brief synopsis.)

And with all of that said, I am now left searching for a way to completely redirect the conversation at hand.

Monsanto has made it very easy for us to hate them (as the article indicated) and yet, in spite of it all, lingering in the back of my mind is a radical and very persistent suspicion that there truly is an even better way.

Even though my gut has repeatedly cried out with anger and distrust, I can plainly see that hating Monsanto has gotten us exactly nowhere.

For the past 100 years Monsanto has been allowed to grow and grow and grow unchecked (this sounds very similar to the action of a cancer cell).

Yet, what have I been doing during all of this time?

Have I ever written to them to express my concerns?

Have I ever contacted any politicians to educate them on the importance of their decisions?

Have I ever once yelled, “Fire!” in hopes of waking others up from their own lethargy?

And what about you?

And what about everyone else?

Monsanto has taken calculated advantage of our distracted state and has treated all of us like a bunch of herd animals shamelessly leading us headlong from one really bad idea to another without most of us even noticing.

And that treatment continues to this very day with the mass marketing of products such as Round Up (see Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and organicconsumers.org).

Certainly there have been a few that have very valiantly tried to curb Monsanto’s extraordinarily egregious behavior in the market place.

And still, the masses remain hypnotized by the spin.

Yet, if we want to stop being treated like herd animals then we must first stop acting like them.

The time for luxuriating in our ignorance is gone.

As of this sentence, you now know too much to go back to pretending everything is ok.

Rather, we all need to position ourselves en masse for some tough decisions and some tough actions as well.

And just because something is tough does not mean it can’t bring fun or enjoyment, genuine togetherness and wholesome healthiness.

I am simply opening up the conversation for every beating heart out there to join in. And that does mean you!

When in doubt on how to proceed, we have our very own heirloom axioms to lead us on.

Rather than hate, we have been told millions of times to love and to do so unconditionally.

“Love thy neighbor …”

It is so well known, I don’t even have to finish the sentence for you.

And it has also been said that love is the very strongest force of all.

So why hate (as the article suggests) if that very behavior holds the more impotent position?

Why use an apparently inferior force when there is something even better?

Would you use a b.b. gun with a charging grizzly when you had an Uzi in your back pocket?

Heck no!

Inferior choices only lead to inferior results.

So why not choose love?

However that looks to you.

Why not send Monsanto some unconditional love, unconditionally?

Why not pray for them like we do everyone else that is important to us?

And believe me, Monsanto is important to us.

I’m just asking.

I am sure that many will uproar at my ideas and that is ok.

At least the conversation will finally get started.

One person certainly can lead the way, but that can be so lonely at times.

And historically this has proven too enormous of a task to accomplish single-handedly.

I firmly believe that it is Monsanto’s abuses that will wither away as we gain the momentum suitable to get the job done right this time and that love may very well hold the answers we are seeking.

I also believe that there is a rightful place for Monsanto in the world and that they can rise up out of the ashes of their own inevitable death knell with a new-found integrity and respect for the genuine goodness in all life as Mother Nature intended it.

Perhaps someday someone will even be able to write the article, “Why We Love Monsanto.”

In the meantime,

I ask that you please join me as I pen this heartfelt blog

To Monsanto With Love,

Debi

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Debi Pellar is a wonderful soul that I met on Facebook. She keeps a blog at amangoaday.org/