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Wouldn't we all love to tell Monsanto's CEO exactly what we think of him? Mark Ruffalo did.
EcoWatch, 12/4/2015
Monsanto chief is horrible … And I got to tell him that to his face after his interview on CBS This Morning.
Approaching someone like this isn’t really my thing. But being so well behaved all the time doesn’t seem to be helping people. It made me really uncomfortable to do it. But that’s how we change. We must become uncomfortable. We must act out of our comfort zones for things to change. We must call out the people who are doing horrible things when they do them.
Hugh Grant (Monsanto CEO not the actor) must be made to feel uncomfortable for what he allows his company to do in the world. That is why I told him what I did and why I am sharing it with you.
...snip...He came through the Green Room door ready to do high fives with his press agent and I simply told him this:
“You are wrong. You are engaged in monopolizing food. You are poisoning people. You are killing small farms. You are killing bees. What you are doing is dead wrong.”
A bead of sweat broke out on his head. “Well, what I think we are doing is good,” Grant replied.
“I am sure you do,” I told him.
When people get paid the kind of money he gets paid their thinking becomes incredibly clouded and the first thing to go is their morality.
He says Monsanto needs to do a better job with their messaging.
Hugh, it’s not your messaging that makes you and your company horrible. It’s the horrible stuff you guys do that makes you and your company horrible.
People don’t walk around making horrible stories up about good companies because they got nothing else better to do with their time....
Read more, incl'g many links to Monsanto horrible-ness~
http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/04/mark-ruffalo-monsanto/
Monsanto chief is horrible … And I got to tell him that to his face after his interview on CBS This Morning.
Approaching someone like this isn’t really my thing. But being so well behaved all the time doesn’t seem to be helping people. It made me really uncomfortable to do it. But that’s how we change. We must become uncomfortable. We must act out of our comfort zones for things to change. We must call out the people who are doing horrible things when they do them.
Hugh Grant (Monsanto CEO not the actor) must be made to feel uncomfortable for what he allows his company to do in the world. That is why I told him what I did and why I am sharing it with you.
...snip...He came through the Green Room door ready to do high fives with his press agent and I simply told him this:
“You are wrong. You are engaged in monopolizing food. You are poisoning people. You are killing small farms. You are killing bees. What you are doing is dead wrong.”
A bead of sweat broke out on his head. “Well, what I think we are doing is good,” Grant replied.
“I am sure you do,” I told him.
When people get paid the kind of money he gets paid their thinking becomes incredibly clouded and the first thing to go is their morality.
He says Monsanto needs to do a better job with their messaging.
Hugh, it’s not your messaging that makes you and your company horrible. It’s the horrible stuff you guys do that makes you and your company horrible.
People don’t walk around making horrible stories up about good companies because they got nothing else better to do with their time....
Read more, incl'g many links to Monsanto horrible-ness~
http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/04/mark-ruffalo-monsanto/
Lucky guy!
And thank you Mark Ruffalo!! 
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Hey, RiverLover! Nice to see you! 
It feels like its been a while. 
Would love to see this posted in GD.
Now if we could just get everyone in Hollywood to be just as brave as he is (along with Leo DiCaprio & John Cusack)...maybe corporate media would have to start paying attention to the truly important things which affect our lives & livelihood.
