#6 Revised: Let Nature Run It's Course

Revised #6 “Let Nature Run Its Course”

Let Nature Run Its Course

Cameron Canupp

ENG 102 Mon-Wed 5:00

Michael Benton

                Monsanto is a multinational biotechnology corporation; they are the leading producer of weed killer, such as “Round Up” (a spray that kills weeds from the root).  Monsanto also is the leading producer of genetically engineered seeds.  Their headquarters can be found in Creve Coeur, Missouri.  They are one of the few companies pioneering in the creation and application of bio technology to agriculture, founded in St. Louis, Missouri (1901).  Genetically modified seeds make up for approximately 50% of Monsanto’s profit.

                It is my belief that Monsanto is taking away from whole food products, being that statistics show that the modified seeds are no good for our culture.  Once genetically modified seeds are grown they are unable to produce more seeds, thus becoming dependent upon regeneration/reproduction of new seeds.  This is in no way a natural process and is only hurting, nearly destroying, America’s farms.  They have begun suing small farm owners and taking their land, claiming that farmers are utilizing their chemicals when detected in a farmer’s crop.  The truth of the matter is that these chemicals are drifting onto nearby farms, causing trace amounts in their crops giving Monsanto grounds to sue.  Typically they cannot prove the farmers use of their chemicals so they bankrupt the farmers in court battles, this causing them to lose everything.

                American’s need more whole foods, clean nutritious foods free from chemical contamination.  Genetically processed foods are ruining America’s farms, in one way or another.   These “short cuts” are only hurting the American people who have worked their entire lives, as have their ancestors, to provide good, clean, nutritious foods by harvesting them naturally and selling them to our communities.  If we continue to allow the modification of the foods that nature has provided for us, eventually nature will stop helping us all together. America was built by the people and we as one have already let it slip so very far away.  If not controlled and ended soon Monsanto may begin to genetically modify our children, who’s to stop them?