People often choose to boycott GMOs or decide to go organic for their own health reasons, but that alone isn’t enough to turn the tide in our fight for food freedom, food sovereignity, and creating a sustainable and healthy food system. Some people cannot afford to feed themselves, let alone be a bit picky about the quality of what they have available to them so we have to help them through other means by going a bit more all out in our own efforts.
The boycott has proven to be one of the most effective means of protest and creating change time and again throughout history. If you’re reading this article now you already more than likely are already boycotting Monsanto by choosing not to buy GMOs and pesticide ridden food when possible, but do you go further and pay attention to the where, what, and how the cotton in your clothes? Investments are the most overlooked areas of participation in the financial arena, they are also one of the greatest opportunities. If you wouldn’t allow yourself or your own company to commit crimes, damage the environment, or take advantage of the poor and disadvantaged; why would you invest in a company that does such things.
The tricky thing about boycotting a company on the stock market is that most people’s money is invested in retirement funds, mutual funds, hedge funds. And yes, even the money invested in your basic bank account might be invested in Monsanto without your knowledge. Doing this allows people to let others manage their money so that they don’t have to think about it, but we still ought to think about it to a degree as where we invest our money affects what happens in the world. Monsanto is widely recognized around the Earth as the most evil company in the world, and yet people have invested nearly $20 billion dollars in the company, many of them not aware that their money is supporting the very company that they hate.
Please contact whomever is in charge of your money and investments and find out who they’ve invested your money with and what they are supporting. If you are looking for a place to invest, please check through the following chart of companies to avoid. This list is a compilation and will be updated over time as info changes, you can help by letting us know who you are or were investing with and whether or not that company or fund supports Monsanto.
source:occupymonsanto360
