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Sustainable Agriculture Group Monsanto Roundup 2

JanforGore
This is the second of my monthly Monsanto Roundup reports where the news in the world of GMOs and other related issues are disseminated in order that people might have knowledge of what is going on with their food and its effect on health, environment, biodiversity, and sustainabilty.

In this issue we go over Monsanto being a water bully, "Smartstax" GM corn not having the proper environmental assessment, Monsanto being named in 50 cancer lawsuits, African chickens refusing to eat GM maize, and the Cancer Prevention Coalition calling on the FDA to ban Aspartame.

Also, we look into the World Seed Conference now taking place in Rome and the important issue of farmers being denied saving seed which is threatening global biodiversity. We also look into Monsanto in Hawaii, action on GE trees, and the effect of soy monocultures in places like Paraguay.

There is much going on in the race to own food and water as economy, climate change, and resource depletion all bring us to a crossroads where we either stand up for global food sovereignty or we lose it.

We must be prepared. Forewarned is forearmed.

So thanks for watching and supporting this endeavor.

http://current.com/groups/sustainable-agriculture/

Jan
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    • Excerpt:

      "Each of the complaints, filed Aug. 3 in Putnam Circuit Court, say Monsanto and its successor companies caused cancer by exposing the plaintiffs to dioxins/furans contamination of the air and property in and around Nitro. The cases mention the "negligent and otherwise unlawful release of dioxin from defendants' waste disposal practices on properties ∑ located in and about Nitro, West Virginia."

      These individual cases, filed by Stuart Calwell and The Calwell Firm of Charleston, are not part of an ongoing class action involving thousands of current and former Nitro residents alleging Monsanto polluted the area with dioxin. The class action case specifies no specific damages, and the class-action plaintiffs seek medical monitoring.

      The plaintiffs in the new cases, also represented by Calwell, are residents and former residents of Nitro or one or more of several surrounding communities of the now defunct chemical plant located near Nitro. They lived, worked or attended school in Nitro.

      Monsanto owned and operated the plant from 1934 to 2000. From 1949 to 1970, the company produced an herbicide that was heavily contaminated with dibenzo dioxins and dibenzo furans. The complaints say the company disposed of the dioxin-contaminated waste in a way which caused dioxins to escape into the air.

      The plaintiffs say their property and soil was contaminated.

      "During the years that Old Monsanto was operating it's trichlorophenol plant, it adopted an unlawful practice of disposing of dioxin waste materials by a continuous process of open 'pit' burning," the complaints state. "This practice was largely denied by Old Monsanto whose representatives characterized the practice as an 'incineration process' when asked by regulatory authorities.

      "Old Monsanto and its successors ∑ failed to adequately control the dioxin contaminated soils and other dioxin contaminated waste materials both on and off the plant site. Dioxins/furans continued to be re-deposited and re-distributed from the plant site and the off-site dumps so as to continue the process of air and property contamination."

    • 2 years ago
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    • Owning seeds isn't enough. Ownership isn't complete without owning the water as well. And of course, talking about sustainability when what you really mean is profit.

    • 2 years ago
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