[0093] Bribe Money
└ posted on Thursday, 10 September 2009, by Novil
I wanted to do this strip as an outlet for my frustration with various large companies that seem to be above the law no matter what they do. Monsanto is a prime example for such a company: Although the criticism section of the Wikipedia article about Monsanto is already quite long, the rest of the article contains more or less severe accusations, too.
- Sandra: Hey Cloud, would you like to come along with me and visit my grandparents this weekend? It’s always a lot of fun at their old-fashioned farm.
- Cloud: It is?
- Sandra: “It is. For example, you could go riding on Polly. Or we could search the gigantic attic for lost treasures.”
- Sandra: “But the best part is always grandpa’s well-prepared prank calls to Monsanto managers.”
- Monsanto manager: WHAT!?! The head of the Indian insecticides board wants EVEN MORE bribe money?!
… To all the people p!ssing and moaning about the (semi)political commentary, take a look at your local paper’s comics section this sunday. Most of those comics are far more preachy and political than S&W.
@ Rabid_Fox:
Ain’t nothing wrong with irradiated foodstuffs. The only thing exposing food to gamma rays does is disinfect it.
@ Taxil:
wolf in bear’s clothing disagrees, a web comic is the perfect outlet to show your frustration, and to let other who feel the same have some satisfaction that they are not the only ones fuming.
Plus its a clever way to get the truth out in a way that’s still funny and enjoyable to read.
also note its somewhat of a tradition of comics to take well aimed jabs at those who deserve it.
I actually work for this company it wasn’t very fun
@ Taxil:
You are implying that political views should always go in blogs and have no place in any other form of expression anyone can make, especially not in a webcomic.
And you support this line of thought with…?
MONSANTO MATA!
Heh… contentious issues on the Internet…
Like laying down the bait for troublemakers with contrary opinions and expecting them not to take it. Setting their superegos against their IDs… will they do the socially responsible thing and not comment on it so as to follow your rules, or will they given in to the urge to voice their counter-opinion in an aggressive manner and then get downvoted into social scorn?
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Hi. I’m Soti, and I’m providing the meta-commentary today.
@ Jrmartin:
OMIGOSH CHEESE IS AWFUL D:
x3
There was once a rosy time of innocence in which Monsanto seemed a great force for good in this world, and would always be so. Indeed, it had great potential for great things, so long as it stuck to moral principals, uncompromising ethics, and rigid scientific methods:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA3uFkF1A9o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
It is hard to say when things started to go wrong. They had provided indespensibly superior rubber products during WW2, but, rushed into developing super herbicides for Vietnam without sufficiant, long term testing. Was that their fault, or the military for putting foolish pressure on them to have something ready fast? I can give the benifit of the doubt to that, but what of aspertain? It was discovered innocently enough, but it everntually became the devil that Monsanto would sell their collective soul to, with Donald Rumsfeld being the Advocate. They jumped on that Nutrasweet band wagon so fast, before they knew it, they had invested most of their wealth in it. If the product had faild, the company would have either become a backwater laboratory, if lucky, or failed entierly. That is a really stupid way to do buisness, putting all your eggs in one basket. I really don’t understand why they were so foolishly confident in the product potential before all the science was understood. If Rumsfield had not taken over management and put a tremendous, political, UNSCIENTIFIC spin on the whole deal, it WOULD have failed, as it should have. Now millions of people mindlessly poison themselves every day, when alternatives like stevia are readilly available, but under advertised.
The common line is that the molocule is derived from common lipids used in all DNA molocules. This is like saying a broken zipper is as good as a whole zipper since they are made from the same materials. I use the zipper analogy often given to replicating DNA molocules, as they unzip, then zip up to new sides as cells go through mitosis, building new “zipper teeth” as the cells absorb nutriants that we have consumed. But what happens when we consume tremendous amounts of incomplete “nutriants”, like asperatine? Cells are forced to work with incomplete materials, resulting in broken zippers. Weird, unpredictable, potentialy life threatening abnormalitys eventualy result. This is the science Monsanto SHOULD have done, that others have had to do, largely with little funding, while fighting smear campainges led by NeoCon investors like Rumsfield (i am a TeaPartier myself, can’t stand party platform slaves). Boycott Monsanto! If they cannot return to their founding principals, then to hell with them!
I have read some nasty things about Monsanto. That place should be shut down.-_-
@ Rabid_Fox:
Hahaha!!
Love the part about grandad being a dude!
@ Rabid_Fox:
Sorry for necro, but I agree. Monsanto is a business. They turn a profit. That’s how they operate. At least they try now, what with giving farmers in foreign nations crop seeds that grow in harsh conditions (Haiti, if memory serves?). Either way, their produce is no more evil for it than Cthulhu is for HP’s racism.
Not to mention the boom of agriculture in the past was due to someone finding a process of fertilization that was more efficient than almost everything before and since. Been removed recently because it can be used for one of the War Gasses.
@ Zaiki:
If only you had been right. But nearly seven years later there still seem to be lots of haters in this site’s comments section. Which is proof to me that Novil has been doing a great job with S&W since then.