Toxic Lies Monsanto Tells Kids

This is actually an old technique. Ever since scientists like Rachel Carson started exposing the truth about toxic chemicals killing birds, animals and people, corporations that make those toxic chemicals have been lying to schoolchildren about it.

Ronnie Cummins of Alternet, via Nation of Change:

It's not enough that the biotech industry -- led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont -- is poisoning our food and our planet. It's also poisoning young minds.

In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has widely circulated what it calls a Biotechnology Basics Activity Book for kids, to be used by "Agriculture and Science Teachers." The book -- called Look Closer at Biotechnology -- looks like a science workbook, but reads more like a fairy tale. Available on the council's Web site, its colorful pages are full of friendly cartoon faces, puzzles, helpful hints for teachers -- and a heavy dose of outright lies about the likely effects of genetic engineering on health, the environment, world hunger and the future of farming.

CBI's lies are designed specifically for children, and intended for use in classrooms.

At a critical time in history when our planet is veering toward a meltdown, when our youth are suffering the health consequences (obesity, diabetes, allergies) of Big Ag and Food Inc.'s over-processed, fat-and sugar-laden, chemical-, and GMO-tainted foods, a time when we should be educating tomorrow's adults about how to reverse climate change, how to create sustainable farming communities, how to promote better nutrition, the biotech industry's propagandists are infiltrating classrooms with misinformation in the guise of "educational" materials.

Read the whole thing.

Still wondering how we came to be suddenly surrounded by gravity-deniers like Michele Bachmann who don't understand basic science or math? They all got their anti-facts and un-logic from corporate propaganda instead of textbooks.

That's why you should care deeply about what the kids in your local schools - especially the private and corporate-run "charter" ones - are being taught, even if you don't have kids of your own. They're the Future Morons of America.