I have a bumper sticker which reads: "Millions against Monsanto" and I think it is quite accurate. Monsanto, the world leader in genetically modified crops has been named the worst company of 2011 by Natural Society. According to Forbes "Monsanto is so despised by environmentalists that Google's first suggested search term for the Company is "Monsanto evil" which coincidentally is how I started the research for this article.

Monsanto produces some of the worst toxins and dangerous products on the planet.

Saccharin
The sweetener helped launch the company and was its first big product. It is a coal product derivative with no nutritional value and was not until lab rats started to develop cancer after being fed a steady dose did the FDA issue a health warning.

Polystyrene
Nothing biodegrades it and it breaks off into small pieces which endangers animals who mistakenly eat it. It is nearly indestructible, nonrenewable and releases benzene into the environment which is cancer causing. In spite of all the evidence that condemns this product the House Republicans voted to reintroduce these cups into the House cafeterias this year.

Agent Orange
Developed as an herbicide and defoliant it was used in Viet Nam to defoliate the Ho Chi Min Trail and has left over 500,000 babies deformed and caused over 400,000 deaths during the war.

Bovine Growth Hormone
The U.S. is nearly the only developed nation that allows the sale of milk from cows injected with artificial growth hormones. Except for Brazil all the rest of the developed world has banned growth hormones in milk for human consumption. It is known to cause cancer and lowers the nutritional value of the milk.

Genetically-Modified Seeds
Because the seeds are supposedly "disease resistant", Monsanto sells the world through multi million ad campaigns that this is the way they can feed the world's poorer nations. A bunch of bunk. Monsanto says they own the seeds and make sure the seeds are sterile at the end of the growing season forcing the farmers to go back to Monsanto to buy more seeds. According to Emma Must of the World Development Movement "Currently 80 percent of the crops grown in developing countries are grown using farm-saved seed" If Monsanto has its way and peddles suicide seeds the biotech multinational companies will lock the world's poorest famers into a new form of genetic serfdom"

Monsanto has been blamed for the bee collapse so much so that the company has been banned from Poland as they should be from all countries including the U.S. So in their clever way they have recently BOUGHT the leading bee research firm, Beelogics, which found that Monsanto's GM corn may be devastating the bee population. The sale occurred in September of 2011 and was not reported in the media until the reason behind the Polish ban became known, that of the declining bee population in that country.

There is a referendum coming up in California in November to make it mandatory to mark all foods that contain GMO, 500,000 signatures were needed and over 1,000,000 were gathered, so fingers crossed it will pass there and hopefully spread to all the rest of the states.

I urge you to rent the films "Food Inc." and "The World According to Monsanto" to really explore why "evil" and Monsanto do go together.