Monsanto wins first prize in Worst Corporation in the World contest for 2017

There are so many despicable companies and brands in the world.   So it's hard to chose the absolute numero uno  when this much-coveted prize is awarded annually.  But the judges (me) have decided.  My choice is Monsanto--protected by the government, actively poisoning the food chain, guilty of predatory customer behavior, and literally violent to non-customers.

Monsanto is still first in the "Worst Corporation of the Decade" ranking, which, surely, this year's victory will help.   They're kind of like the Chicago Bulls in their heyday.

It's nice to feel so certain that Monsanto is the absolutely worst company on the planet.   Knowing this makes the judges (me) feel clearheaded and thoughtful, since it would be easy to be confused by the many categories and brands in the runner-up spots:

• All the defense contractors--whether General Electric or General Dynamics, these guys make money exporting death to bad people, and go out of their way to make sure that they're not responsible for anything after point of sale.   Is it any wonder that the U.S. military and CIA have been fighting against their own weapons in all of our recent occupations, given the market practices of the defense contractors?
• All the tax-protected, government-bailed out idiots at the handful of big investment banks--Goldman is the poster child but they're all buddies.  Greed combined with mediocre talent and favorable tax treatment causes a 2% growth rate!   Yeah, investment banks suck too.  Private equity is worse because there's no disclosure--you can fund weapons exporting til the cows come home and not tell any one.   Are you listening, Carlyle?
• The large anti-customer consumer goods companies who make a living ripping off people who can't afford it.   It would be pretty easy to put Verizon, or United Airlines, or any company that doesn't have live customer service reps available at the touch of a keypad, at the top of the list.   They abuse all of us daily, invade our privacy, and waste our time without a second thought.
• The companies that produce products that kill us.   Altrea comes to mind first for their tobacco field heritage (you try to hide it but it's still there, guys).   In this category the corn-cartel companies (Archer Daniels Midland being the biggest villain) win.   They eek out deadly profits with the benefit that they are subsidized by the US government, which also imposes heavy tariffs on foreign competitors like real sugars.  And what we can't sell in the US, they're free to dump everywhere else that hasn't illegalized HFCS.
• And of course the pharma industry...they may have a hand tied behind their backs, but there's always a new way...or new international dumping ground...to fuel addition.   Purdue Pharma has become a popular nominee but the whole FDA marketplace is rigged.  

The list goes on, but really, Monsanto is the worst corporation in the world.

Here's why:  Monsanto's GMO methodology destroys the crops of all non-customers.   In 2017, there have been formal Dept of Agriculture complaints from over 3200 non-Monsanto customer farms that their crops have been killed by Monsanto pesticides from neighboring farms.  FOR JUST ONE PESTICIDE!   Monsanto makes hundreds!

What have these 3200 bankrupt and crop less farmers won for their complaints?   Nothing.   The US

just extended Monsanto's permit with the suggestion that application instructions be improved.   In any other situation, Monsanto would be liable for the annual income of those 3200 farms.   Pay damages for what you did, morons!   Not here.   Monsanto owns the government, and has, for a very long time, done exactly what it pleases...suing non-customers downwind of Monsanto farms is one of their most popular public relations approaches.

Most farmers just give up and recognize that you can no longer farm unless you buy Monsanto GMO seeds and products.