Thus, meet Vance Crowe, Monsanto's new, slick, 32-year-old Director of Millennial Engagement, who says actually Monsanto is pretty hip, and a woman in a sweater and ponytail works for them, and he's met a farmer with a handlebar moustache, and really, kids, it's all good, if genetically engineered.
Crowe understands that folks in his generation are "looking to how they're going to fit into the economy and culture, and they have a new set of ideas that need to be incorporated into all aspects of global life," and argues that, "Monsanto is a place, just like many companies, where if you don't actually know someone from the company, the only thing you see is the brand, and insists that while "A lot of people believe Monsanto is in the habit of suing farmers...it's not true. We have sued farmers who violated contracts, but it's something we hate to do."
Comment: More lies! Monsanto sues farmers for inadvertent contamination of their fields and has a team of lawyers that terrorize farmers in the US and Canada. When the wind blows the seeds from a Monsanto field across to a non-Monsanto field it says, "OK, now you have to pay." See: Monsanto: Mafia protection racket - Corporate organized crime and Monsanto sued small famers to protect seed patents, report says
Meanwhile, Monsanto finds itself fighting in a growing number of states - against grassroots anti-GMO campaigns, critics that blast its "death grip on the food system," mocking memes and hashtags like #monsantoevil, views of the company as part of "a cabal of war-chemical giants," and a growing consensus that "society is waking up and smelling the Roundup." So good luck Vance.
Maybe someone should research Abby Zimet and the Common Dreams team a little bit.
Rah-rah.
Go-team-go.
We're all in this together.
Until we're not.
signed,
Kurt