{"id":15819,"date":"2010-04-28T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=15819"},"modified":"2011-09-28T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T09:47:11","slug":"the-monsanto-house-of-the-future-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/15819","title":{"rendered":"The Monsanto future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHouse of the Future part 1 of 2<\/em><\/p>\n

Back in 1957, chemical company Monsanto gave the world a modular ‘tease’ of the future<\/a> as part of Disneyland’s original Tomorrowland – a plastic house with plastic dreams.<\/p>\n

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\nHouse of the Future part 2 of 2<\/em><\/p>\n

monsanto today<\/strong>
\nThese days, Monsanto is doing something else<\/a> to change the world of tomorrow; it involves soybeans, genetics, lawyers and massive control of our farming industry. Not too happy about it. There is some hope<\/a> tho. Consumers do vote with their wallets.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This weekend, I saw Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc.<\/em> It has some of the gory details about how our food is produced these days. Watch it here.<\/a> Website (and blog and all kinds of stuff) here.<\/a> <\/p>\n

It’s been almost a decade since I read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation.<\/a><\/em> Things haven’t gotten better.<\/p>\n

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The House of the Future was demolished in 1967. In first attempts, the wrecking ball simply bounced off its plastic surface.<\/p>\n\r\n\t

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