http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6262083407501596844

Please let me know if this is extremist nonsense from those who have a personal axe to grind. Please tell me it can't be possible because the main-stream media including the BBC (with it's world wide reputation for the truth) would have exposed it. Please tell me it can't be possible because Government corruption is restricted to fiddling expences and above infulence from corporate buisness. Please tell me not to worry because once we get rid of Gordon Brown and his croneys everything will be better. Please tell me that, this was set up during George Bush's administation but with Obama on the US throne he will limit the influence of big buisness. Please tell me not to worry becuase there are lots of other things I can worry about, terrorism, global warming, peak oil, swine flu.
Please tell me not to worry because the farming community in the UK is all to aware of the global aims of corporations and has a policy in place to protect it's interests. 

I have only watched a little of it and it is disturbing to say the least.  How much is true and how much is not true is hard to say, but by now it should be very obvious to everyone in the world that in the USA big business operates under different rules than the ordinary man, and it has been that way under a variety of different Presidents. 

However, to tie this in with GM crops I have said this more than once, nobody had to hold a gun to my head to get me to plant Roundup Ready soybeans, and then several years later nobody had to hold a gun to my head to get me to plant Roundup ready corn, and this year nobody had to hold a gun to my head to get me to plant triple stack corn, I cheerfully did it on my own.  As long as the consumer wants the cheapest possible food, GM crops are going to become more and more the norm, because they are so much easier and therefore cheaper to produce.  Consumers talk about caring where their food comes from and who raises it, but at the end of the day the cheapest is usually what ends up in the grocery basket.

Its true - just do a search for 'Monsanto' on http://warmwell.com and you'll find 11 pages of info' about the company!

It is serious and of great concern to some of us. I care about the welfare of people, animals, the land and farming. If that makes me an extremist, so be it.

monsanto was responsible for the demise of the small farmer in england, as roundup allowed even estate agents to be "good" farmers. estates took all their land back, and proper farming went out the window.

its turned full circle again, and blackgrass is the new couch, making grain growing near impossible on infested land.  such land is all played out now, dependent on ever increasing chemical inputs to achieve a yield.

Monsanto is not a charity it's a for profit company with shareholders and investors to satisfy first. I am not convinced that what they offer is truly sustainable simply because we have never been in this situation before but the marketing strategy of these companies is not to far off the technique used by drug dealers, get the product into the market, get the users addicted and then control the supply.

Basing the justifications for doing this on the science behind their work is arrogance personified. I saw with my own eyes the effect of bovine somatrotropin (rBST) on cow health and welcomed the ban on this so called safe hormone by many countries and companies that eventually led to Monsanto selling this division off. And pleased don't get me started on Clenbuterol and the work sponsored by Monsanto at various livestock husbandry units in the UK and elsewhere that were alarming to say the least to me as a novice animal dietician, all done in the name of doctorates, science and profit!

 Not sure all this shown in the vid can be layed at Monsanto's door, but a big chunk of it. [Warning - not a pretty video clip.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftubWz6sDk

Yea, “imagine” is right…Monsanto seems to think they can pledge more sustainable agriculture and we won’t notice all the harm they have done to the worlds food supply. “That’s sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto seeds are all about.