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# Ten Ways Monsanto and Big Ag Are Trying to Kill You - And the Planet
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/monsanto_and_big_ag_0202121009/
- Published: 2012-02-02T23:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:20:29.000Z
- Description: A list of ten charges against industrial agriculture: greenhouse gas pollution, pesticides and dioxin, drained aquifers, poisoned drinking water, rainforest clearing, costlier and less nutritious food, resistant weeds and bacteria, and subsidies flowing to the largest producers.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

Energy-intensive industrial farming practices that rely on toxic chemicals and genetically engineered crops are not just undermining public health, they're destroying the planet.

*Here's how:*

**#1** Generating Massive Greenhouse Gas Pollution (CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide) and Global Warming, While Promoting False Solutions Such as Industrial Biofuels, So-Called Drought-Resistant Crops, and Genetically Engineered Trees

**#2** Polluting the Environment and the Soil-Food Web with Pesticides, Chemical Fertilizers, and Persistent Toxins, Including Dioxin

**#3** Draining and Polluting Wetlands and Aquifers, Turning Farmland into Desert

**#4** Poisoning Wells and Municipal Drinking Water, Lakes, and Rivers

**#5** Chopping Down the Rainforests for Monoculture GMO Crops, Biofuels and Cattle Grazing

**#6** Increasing the Cost of Food, While Reducing Nutrition and Biodiversity

**#7** Spawning Pesticide-Resistant Superbugs and Weeds, and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

**#8** Generating New and More Virulent Plant, Animal and Human Diseases

**#9** Utilizing Wasteful Fossil Fuel-Intensive Practices and Encouraging the Expansion of Natural Gas Fracking and Tar Sands Extraction (Which Destroy Forests, Aquifers, and Farmland)

**#10** Stealing Money From the 99% to Give Huge Subsidies to the 1% Wealthiest, Most Chemical and Energy-Intensive Farms and Food Producers

It's not enough to stop eating genetically engineered food. If we want a liveable planet we've got to boycott all factory farmed food and make the Great Transition from energy and chemical-intensive agriculture to a relocalized and organic system of food and farming. The World According to Monsanto is a recipe for disaster. Monsanto and Big Ag contaminate every link in the food chain, threatening the very foundation of life: living nutrient-rich soil, clean water, resilient crops, healthy animals, stable climates, and diverse food sources. The good news is that agro-ecological and organic methods can reverse this threat and sustain food production for future generations, but we don't have much time to turn things around*.*

[***Take Action***](http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/utr/1/EUNDRHLFKL/LFCQRHLFQV/7877941006?ref=foodconsumer.org)

***Learn more:***

[***"What About the State of Our Planet, Mr. President?" By Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins***](http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/utr/1/EUNDRHLFKL/BFBPRHLFQW/7877941006?ref=foodconsumer.org)

[***The Farm Bill: Subsidizing Pollution, Junk Food, and the Richest 1%***](http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/utr/1/EUNDRHLFKL/BCEIRHLFQX/7877941006?ref=foodconsumer.org)