Joe Offer,

Concern about Monsanto is well grounded both in science and in the past and current behavior of the corporation. There's not room here for a full history, I've chosen one incident that I hope will shed a little light on what you perceive as "hysteria." I can assure you it has nothing to do with "liberal dogma".

Briefly, Monsanto was one of the manufacturers of the dioxin-contaminated herbicide Agent Orange, and the company that provided falsified dioxin toxicity data to the government. This falsified data was then used as a basis for denying compensation to Vietnam veterans suffering from dioxin poisoning.

I've chosen this incident, because it was mainstream media news, and is well documented on the web. The link I'm providing is to an internal EPA memo written at the end of the investigation.

The few lines that comprise this post in no way reflect the time I've spent in preparing it. I've struggled for hours to come up with a polite, non-confrontational answer to your post, one that would point in the direction of understanding. I hope you will do me, and the others here whom you dismiss as "hysterical", the same courtesy, by following this link and reading.

Here's the link: http://pwp.lincs.net/sanjour/monsanto.htm

Thanks, Luther