Dear Monsanto,
I wanted to write you this letter thanking you for all of your hard work leading the food industry towards the future. I have seen some incredible things as of late and I believe that your efforts have been the main reason I and others have been so fortunate. I have always cared about healthy food just as many of my friends and associates do. Your recent push as the number one financial backer of the anti-prop 37 movement has produced such amazing results that I barely have words to express my gratitude. Below I have outlined some of those incredible things. I thought you deserved to hear from a consumer, an American, a Californian just what you have done for us.
1- My friends and family now pay much more attention to what is in
their food and what they feed themselves and their children.
2- I have seen people who would otherwise not be aware of each
other working toward the common goal of food safety and
health. I have personally interacted with people from Russia and
South Africa regarding the food on their dinner tables and my
own. I love new friends.
3- Organic food sales have gone through the roof! The farmers
markets in my home town have been growing at a magnificent
rate. An entire new culture of caring about what our food really
is has come into existence in places where people never really
cared before.
4- As a consumer I merely have to look at the list of donors looking
to kill prop 37 to know who gives a shit about human beings and
who only cares about money.
5- The two larger community gardens in my town went from
having a few volunteers each day to having anywhere from
25 – 100 volunteers EACH DAY!!
6- Local independent grocery stores are proudly starting to educate
their customers as to which foods do not contain GMO’s.
7- Some GMO foods were sneaking in “under the radar” but now
this is on “everyone’s radar.”
8- Farmers are realizing that they do not have to back down to big
companies trying to bully them into submission so that they do
not have choices.
9- People from all different races, political affiliations, religions,
cultures, and places in the world have banded together ala “The
enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
10- Girls LOVE guys who make an effort to avoid fake food such as
what you supply the world with. If I go out to any
gathering and start talking about how terrible GMO’s are I
inevitably meet lots of pretty girls.
There are many more benefits I am realizing now thanks to you spending so many millions of dollars to defeat prop 37. So in summary thank you. It must be so frustrating to see your efforts backfiring on you and your friends Nestle, Bayer, Hershey’s, Abbott, Pepsi, Coke, and all the others. Thank you for your arrogance and lack of regard of the entire human species. It has served to bring us together and make us stronger.
Sincerely,
Your Friend
Benjamin Lantz
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