Anonymous hacktivists temporarily disabled Monsanto’s website as part of Operation Monsanto ( #OpMonsanto ).
After the website of the U.S. based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto briefly went down on Wednesday, May 29, hacktivists associated with the international collective known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack via Twitter.
According to media reports , the announcement that Monsanto’s website was down came from a Twitter account belonging to Anonymous Press
This is not the first time Anonymous has challenged Monsanto. Last week, international hacktivist collective Anonymous led global protests against biotech giant Monsanto, also as part of Operation Monsanto ( #OpMonsanto ).
Previously, Anonymous hacked Monsanto’s corporate website, as well as hacking a public relations firm representing Monsanto.
According to a statement released by Anonymous, Monsanto is facing the wrath of activists “because they are altering the nature of our food supply without a concern about long term effects on human health, because they are creating a monopoly on the supply of seeds for farmers and, because of increasing evidences of long term environmental damages.”
Monsanto stands accused by Anonymous and others of destroying the environment and poisoning the world's food source. The complaints against Monsanto are simply too numerous to catalog here. Suffice it to say that for many environmentalists Monsanto and their genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and other adventures in biotechnology, threaten the survival of the human race.
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