How Do You Eat When You Want To Create Change?

Eat For Change is currently the home of freelance food and nutrition writer, Shannon Sullivan, though the site, like it's host, seems to be constantly...well...changing.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Monsanto is Selling the rbST Business

According to a recent New York Times Article:
Monsanto officials said the decision was not related to the retail trend and that business for the artificial hormone, sold under the brand name Posilac, remained brisk. Monsanto, which is based in St. Louis and is the only commercial manufacturer of the hormone, declined to provide sales numbers.
Yea, right.

In my opinion, this is an example of how powerful consumer activism can be.

The question now is, what's going to happen to the business? What markets will be created for the hormone and what developing nations will be enrolled with the promise of future profit? How can we assure the people of those nations receive the same opportunity for informed choice that we in the U.S. have had to fight for?

2 comments:

David Gerard said...

I've been trying to get discussion going re: Monsanto with satire, fwiw.

Shannon Sullivan said...

Great post David. I have to laugh about this stuff, otherwise I only want to cry.