Sunday, February 5, 2012

Occupy Monsanto

While on Maui we were asked to sing our now famous anti-GMO, anti-Monsanto anthem "Monsanto (GO AWAY!)" as part of a week long Occupy Maui camp outside the Monsanto headquarters in Kihei. I was amazed to learn that Maui's current highest-valued export is GMO Corn seed which is then brought to the US mainland and bred with organic corn seed and sold to farmers. Of course the US government subsidizes all of this, multiple government officials, including heads of the FDA, are former Monsanto board members, which my explain why the USDA decided to fund the construction of a new district police depart right outside of Monsanto's gates. Wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it in my own eyes. Here's a video by Ian MacKenzie who is producing a video called Occupy Love. To support us on our quest to rid the food system of poison you can download the single here.