Monsanto is claiming their sustainable agriculture motives which are completely transparent to anyone who listens to farmers.  Watch this video first, then spit up a little in your mouth when you realize the utter hypocrisy demonstrated by this claim.

Monsanto streamrolls farmers and monopolizes agricultural markets to make the most profit possible, rather than cultivating their customers’ businesses as if they were a crop.

They’re right about the need to increase food production.  They’re wrong that genetically engineering crops and aggressively spreading them to un-wanting communities.

When will large industry realize you can’t just put up a fancy website and change the world.

Some companies think they can jump on the green bandwagon (thereby sharing in the dramatically increasing sales in the green market) without really trying.  We wrote about steps to greenwash your product here.  But some companies don’t even read our guide and trying half-assed, half-witted attempts at greening their products.  Cracked did a lovely job of calling out 6 half-assed attempts at greenwashing here.

Seriously?  The Fur Council of Canada has the nerve to call the sale of fur an “ecological choice in harmony with nature”.  Last time we checked, the processing of fur requires the death of an animal.  There is no amount of carbon credit or offset you can purchase to make fur an environmentally friendly clothing option.

Among their claims: “If we don’t use part of what nature produces, we will use petroleum-based synthetics or other materials that may damage the environment…”

Read more about this afront to the environmental movement.

Petroleum companies have some of the deepest pockets and therefore can rebrand themselves on a whim.  Well, when their V.P. of Marketing tells them they should.  So why haven’t they all started calling themselves “green”?  They have!  In fact, the biggest three have all started marketing campaigns indicating how environmentally friendly they are:

Nomatter how you brand it, or how “green” you paint your product, it is still black, polluting, caustic, volatile, limited, foreign-made and fatal.

If these companies want to impress us, they should indicate how much of their immense profits they are pouring into renewable energy (No, “Clean Coal” doesn’t count).