How much does Monsanto spend on lobbying?

Monsanto spends millions, every year, on lobbying to push their agendas through our government.

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Why You Should Go See 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'

"...And why do I give a damn—and insist that you do, too? First of all, Fox is a beautiful piece of visual storytelling, based on a book by the peerless children’s author Roald Dahl. Its lead roles are voiced by two of Hollywood’s very few genuine stars at the height of their powers—George Clooney and Meryl Streep. The stop-action animation is downright artisanal. We need good popular filmmaking in this country; otherwise, it’s all dumb-guy fart comedies and brainless action sequels. Well, here it is. Support it.

Even more importantly for our purposes, the film dramatizes the brutal and arbitrary power of industrial meat giants—and depicts a daring (and successful) revolt against them. As conjured up by Anderson, Dahl’s “equally mean” farmers, Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, are stand-ins for larger-than-life, yet quite small-minded, U.S. meat moguls like Don Tyson and “Bo” Pilgrim. The film’s end—which I won’t spoil—is a wry commentary on vertical integration and consolidation in the food industry..."

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Why you should go see 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'

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• Tell USDA That You Care About GE Contamination of Organic Food!
  Alfalfa is the fourth most widely grown crop in the U.S. and a key source of dairy forage. It is the first perennial crop to be genetically engineered. It is open-pollinated by bees, which can cross-pollinate at distances of several miles, spreading the patented, foreign DNA to conventional and organic crops. Such biological contamination threatens the livelihood of organic farmers and dairies, since the U.S. Organic standard prohibits genetic engineering, and alfalfa exporters, since most overseas governments also reject GE-contaminated crops.
  
  
• Tell Congress to create a tracking system for cloned animals!
  In poll after poll, the American public has said that it does not want to eat food that comes from cloned animals. A 2008 Food Marketing Institute poll indicated that 77% of Americans are not comfortable with eating foods from cloned animals. But we won’t have much choice about eating cloned foods unless USDA creates a robust system to track clones
  
  
• Tell Mars and Hershey's to sign the Non-GM Beet Sugar Registry
  In 2001, Hershey's and M&M Mars told consumers they would not use genetically modified sugar. But now that GM sugar beets are being planted commercially, they have made no follow-up assurances. They produce the vast majority of candy on the market and need a little coaxing to stick to their pledges.
  
  
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  Tell Congress to Support Labeling and Safety Testing of GE Foods!
  
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has repeatedly introduced two bills related to GE crops and foods in the House of Representatives. The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act would require mandatory labeling of all GE foods; the other, The Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act, would require mandatory, pre-market safety testing of GE foods. Tell your representatives that you demand to know what you are eating.
  
  
  
  

Monsanto GMO Ignites Big Seed War

by Frank Morris

Even though deep snowdrifts cover his fields in eastern Kansas, Luke Ulrich, a corn and soybean farmer here, is thinking about spring. It's time to buy seed again, but hundreds of seed companies have gone under in the past two decades.
Ulrich remembers the days before genetically modified seeds upended the industry. Critics of the big agriculture biotech company Monsanto say its popular Roundup Ready technology is to blame for that. Roundup Ready is a line of gene-modified seeds that inoculate plants against a herbicide, Roundup, also made by Monsanto, that kills just about everything else.
"Ever since they've come out with the Roundup Ready trait and that became popular and basically took over farming, we've seen significant increases every single year," Ulrich says.
Ulrich says his seed costs shot up almost 50 percent last year. That's because farmers are contractually prohibited from saving seeds and planting them the following year....    Read or listen to full story at NPR