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Like any cornered rat, the leviathan seed company can see the very large threat coming their way, and it appears that they are pulling out all the stops to fight as dirty as they can. But the movement against the company is so powerful, that despite paid-off politicians and billions of dollars in the war chest, Monsanto knows that they’ve been outmatched. What we’re seeing now are the last, desperate attempts to keep the general public from learning about the manmade global disaster that was created by Monsanto.

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If companies are allowed to de-register varieties, they can stop farmers from accessing and using perfectly good varieties,” said Boehm. “We expect seed companies will use this opportunity to put farmers on a ‘variety treadmill’, de-registering old varieties so that the only varieties available to them will be expensive new varieties subject to patent restrictions or royalty charges under Plant Breeders Rights.

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The use of classic, refillable glass jugs or glazed terracotta dipping bowls and the choice of a restaurateur to buy olive oil from a small artisan producer or family business will be outlawed.

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We confine, slaughter and consume 10 billion land animals. Our food choices are polluting our bodies and our planet, making us sick and causing a wide range of diseases, not to mention the drug-resistant pathogens we’re breeding in the intense confinement system livestock are kept in before slaughter.

As a result, we need more chemicals to treat the mess 10 billion land animals make, and more drugs to treat the problems we’ve created for ourselves by eating all those animals and exposing ourselves to zoonotic diseases.

Then, in the name of curing the symptoms of our disease, we torture and kill millions more animals in laboratories, and end up with drugs that could – and do sometimes – kill us.

The joke is that it looks like all the harm we do to animals is actually coming back to bite us in the ass. The sad part is we have to drag all these animals in to our divine comedy.

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The paleo diet is sometimes ridiculed as a fad that relies on an overly rosy view of our primitive past. But it turns out that popular health movements that advocate going back to a more natural way of living are nothing new. Consider this quote: “It is reasonably certain that man was originally made to live and exercise in the open air, bathe in rivers, and expose his body to the healthful action of the sun.” And this one: “Civilized man is manufacturing and eating many substances that slowly but surely lead to degeneration, disease and premature death.” These nuggets could easily come from a paleo lifestyle blog, the kind that argues our modern diet and way of life are making us sick. Except that the first one is from an 1894 book called Athletics for Physical Culture. And the second is from a 1926 book called Natural Foods: The Safe Way to Health.