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love_katz

(2,579 posts)
25. +1
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 12:53 AM
Jun 2013

Seems like the people in our government who are beholden to nasty corporations like Monsanto forgot a few things...like someone said upthread, if you leave people backed into a corner, with no way to fight back, not everyone is going to lie down peacefully and let them trample over them.

I think that our collective welfare is more important than the destruction of property. Food is so very basic, and their are huge problems with not just the GMO food itself, but with corporate control over our food supply. This whole business is a huge issue, including foreign companies coming in, buying up local farm land, and taking over the food supply through patent laws, pollution of the ground water, etc. I have had personal experience with being sickened from exposure to Round-up when I worked on a rhododendron farm back in the early eighties.

I am sure agent Mike is listening, but I applaud people standing up for what we stand on. Planet Earth is our most basic sponsor, anyway, not the corporations.

GMO crops set ablaze... [View all] undergroundpanther Jun 2013 OP
It's long past time. PDJane Jun 2013 #1
my my my annabanana Jun 2013 #2
Wow. roody Jun 2013 #3
The return of monkeywrenching? starroute Jun 2013 #4
So they overlooked genetically modifying the sugar-beet plants to make them fire retardant. AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2013 #5
ha! Good one! glinda Jun 2013 #26
Good N.I.B. Jun 2013 #6
That cat never says good nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #18
I think it's fitting that GrumpyCat has become the beloved National Meme! BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2013 #21
Maybe it was spontaneous plant-life combustion. nt silvershadow Jun 2013 #7
Apparently the Monsanto Protection Act forgot 99th_Monkey Jun 2013 #8
Remember this always: Vandalism is not Violence Taverner Jun 2013 #9
EXACTLY! Something that a lot of people forget... socialist_n_TN Jun 2013 #38
"a pair of privately-owned plots of land leased and managed by Syngenta... HiPointDem Jun 2013 #10
Yep. bunnies Jun 2013 #34
+1. swiss corp treating US like a third-world country, with US cooperation. HiPointDem Jun 2013 #36
I guess it's time we see what this so-called surveillance state is good for NoPasaran Jun 2013 #11
I don't like sugar beets anyhow. sulphurdunn Jun 2013 #12
The monkey wrench gang AgingAmerican Jun 2013 #13
You think criminal actions like this are something to be proud of? tritsofme Jun 2013 #14
What's criminal? Companies making it impossible to use good farming practices, like mbperrin Jun 2013 #17
What other option is there... Ztolkins Jun 2013 #19
Paul Revere was a leaker ...and a criminal. L0oniX Jun 2013 #35
Cool beans. marble falls Jun 2013 #15
Thanks for this, UGP, and I hope it is just the beginning loudsue Jun 2013 #16
I don't get how a fire destroys plants "by hand, one plant at a time." pnwmom Jun 2013 #20
This was big news in Oregon and it was on DU, so no news blackout! Coyotl Jun 2013 #22
..... blackspade Jun 2013 #28
LMAO! Harmony Blue Jun 2013 #30
Good. Luminous Animal Jun 2013 #23
Arson. Here's where certain aunts and I part ways. flvegan Jun 2013 #24
+1 love_katz Jun 2013 #25
Buuuuurrrrrrnnnnn! Arctic Dave Jun 2013 #27
What a shame.... Harmony Blue Jun 2013 #29
Hope they never find out who because the new rules say they're terrorists n/t Catherina Jun 2013 #31
Good job. arikara Jun 2013 #32
Tsk. Tsk. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #33
if you zombie-proof, you don't have to zombie-fight! MisterP Jun 2013 #37
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