Surrounded by Monsanto

Last year I wrote a post on Monsanto and GE Foods, a subject I find myself talking about quite frequently.

It's an interesting subject that I'm always eager to talk about and usually surprised that people know so little about.

As a follow up I found this article on one man's attempt to completely banish Monsanto from his life for a month. How difficult could it be? How difficult should it be to banish associations from any company for a month? When does a corporation have too much power? (Probably more often than not.)

Many consumers and advocacy groups feel that mandatory labeling of GE Foods would prompt consumers to stop purchasing GE Foods and therefore reduce Monsanto's power. As of 2008, the BC Government said that they agreed with labeling GE Foods but didn't feel that a bill in which 15,000 citizens supported would do the job (see my 2008 post).

What's the latest update? Well labeling of GE Foods has been mandatory for many years now in the European Union, Japan, and Australia and is still being demanded by many people in the United States and Canada, although with no plans to make it mandatory (an action that more than 80% of Canadians support).