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The terminator gene has from day one made the poor farmers that feed the world lives a living hell, it stops the crops from reproducing seeds therefore stopping the farmers from replanting these seeds (something which has gone on for thousands of years) instead they must continue to buy these seeds from monsanto, bumping up profits for the men in suits, forcing thousands of farmers to kill themselves over debts.
How far will this have to go before it's stopped? How many people have to die?
We need to start giving everyone the means to grow their own food instead of leaving it down to faceless corporations.The terminator gene has from day one made the poor farmers that feed the world lives a... more
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As the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) gets closer, a new agreement has to be signed for the period after 2012. It is becoming clear how agribusiness attempts to gain profits from the massive carbon credits market. Under the term "Conservation Agriculture", Monsanto and other biotech allies have penetrated the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) aiming to get carbon credits for agribusiness. A voluntary 'responsible' label for Roundup Ready soy sponsored by World Wild Life Fund (WWF), and a newly approved Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) methodology are important steps for Agribusiness to get access to this three billion dollar business.
Proposals to include agriculture in carbon offsetting focus on changes in tillage practices and reductions in methane and nitrous oxide emissions. All these practices are included in the concept of "Conservation Agriculture", which is based on three principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotations . However, in the name of Conservation Agriculture and with the explicit consent of FAO and UNFCCC, very different agricultural methods are included. Under this label a range of systems from biological agriculture to No-till GM industrial agriculture can be labelled as sustainable and so receive carbon credits.
No-till is an agricultural technique that requires no ploughing or digging of the soil. When sowing, seeds are drilled into the soil. In general, No-till is considered a conservation practice that increases levels of soil organic matter and reduces soil erosion, but in RR soy industrial monocultures it part of this technique is used in conjunction with very harmful environmental practices.
In practice, Carbon credits for No-till could mean a massive economic support for Genetically Modified (GM) soy monocultures in South and North America and a promotion of this agribusiness model in other Southern Hemisphere regions.
GM soy monocultures are a production model which is not sustainable in any way. In South America, soy production of this kind is one of the main drivers of deforestation, land use change, biodiversity destruction and human rights violations . Moreover, these monocultures sustain the industrial feed industry which is a main cause of climate change as well. To label these agricultural production models as “sustainable” only because they involve less ploughing (no tillage or No-till) means falling into a trap of absurdly reductionism and blindness.
The report "Agriculture and Climate Change: Real Problems, False Solutions" presented in June 2009 reveals the main agriculture-related proposals in the negotiations for a post -2012 climate agreement. It provides an informative panorama on how current and proposed agricultural practices for the post Kyoto agreements really impact on climate change. However, in this article we will focus specifically on some cases related to soy monocultures.
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And the current climate bill in Congress aids their scheme which discredits it right from the start.As the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) gets closer, a new agreement has to... more
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and Other evil corporations taking over our world for the profit of a few
Feels good to take action.and Other evil corporations taking over our world for the profit of a few
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The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has today released a report exposing the patents and players involved in appropriating key African food crops to produce genetically modified (GM) climate crops. According to the report, biotechnology is being used to identify "climate genes" in African crop plants, which are able to withstand the stresses that are likely to become prevalent as the world's climate changes. By patenting genes that can withstand stresses like drought, heat and salinity corporations are positioning themselves to turn a fat profit.
Monsanto, working through strategic partnerships, is at the forefront of patenting key African food crops such as sorghum, maize, peanut, cotton, wheat, manioc, sugar cane and banana for their 'climate' properties including stress tolerance, biomass accumulation and drought tolerance.
Israeli company Evogene, partially owned by Monsanto, is claiming more than 700 "climate gene" sequences in a single patent application. The claims extend to the use of gene sequences in key crops in Africa such as millets and sorghum, and even targets African Teak wood species. Another Monsanto partner, US based Ceres Inc, is aggressively filing patent monopoly on a wide variety of climate-related genes for both agrofuels and food crops.
Swiss Syngenta, Monsanto's GM competitor is standing in line for patents in respect of drought tolerance in sorghum and rice. Pioneer Hi Bred, Du Pont Corporation and BASF are also involved in filing numerous climate change related patents.
"It is clear that Monsanto, Syngenta and others are positioning themselves to penetrate African agriculture markets clutching the climate change banner. We condemn the expediency of the biotechnology industry in trying to profit from impending tragedy to further its own selfish corporate interests," said Mariam Mayet, Director of the ACB.
The ACB calls on African governments to investigate the patent claims, especially those resembling classic 'biopiracy' in asserting ownership of African genetic resources that are then sold elsewhere for profits.
The Full Briefing titled Patents, Climate Change and African Agriculture: Dire Predictions can be downloaded from
http://www.biosafetyafrica.org.za/index.php/20090928242/Climate-change-in-African-Agriculture/menu-id-100029.htmlThe African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has today released a report exposing the... more
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The agricultural giant Monsanto may well still be the world's most hated company. The company that brought the world Agent Orange, the defoliant of choice in the Vietnam War, followed up a decade ago with a strident push to flood the world with genetically modified crops. It alienated millions – and even its friends and rivals among GM supporters blamed Monsanto's belligerence for putting back the cause by many years. But I'm going to ignore GMs and talk about water. And belligerence.
In part, no doubt, to help salvage its GM-tarnished reputation, Monsanto now makes great play of its efforts to help engineer a second green revolution built around "sustainability".
Sustainability is a much-abused term and it infiltrates almost every corner of the company's website. But to be fair they do try and define what the word means for its business. The company promises that its "sustainable yield initiative" will "reduce by one-third per unit produced the aggregate amount of key resources such as land, water and energy, required to grow crops by 2030."
Many analysts now see water, rather than land, as the key limitation on growing food to feed a future world population of nine billion in the coming decades. So a third more crop for the same amount of water is a valuable goal. The company trumpets especially its work to engineer more water-efficient maize.
Of course, despite the company's public pledge to "share knowledge and technology" the company's corporate aim is to make sure that farmers buy Monsanto-patented water-efficient seeds by the trillion.
But you would expect Monsanto to be especially sensitive about how it manages water in its own farming operations, and particularly to show concern for how neighbouring farmers are facing up to water shortages. Wouldn't you?
The scene shifts to the Hawaiian island of Molokai. This is an old stomping ground of Monsanto's. It is the largest employer and the island is sometimes known as "the birthplace of biotechnology" and "the Silicon valley of the seed corn industry".
This is where Monsanto does a lot of its research into GM crops such as maize, and where it grows many of the seeds it sells to farmers round the world.
Nature on Molokai has suffered badly from the invasion of Monsanto and other big-farm companies. In recompense, Monsanto puts money into a Nature Conservancy programme on the island to "preserve biodiversity and protect water sources".
The company has nonetheless gained a bad reputation there as a water bully. As a local journalist wrote there last year in the Molokai Dispatch, "Monsanto's thirst for more water" threatens its future on the island. "Like most large corporations, Monsanto's number one priority is to maximise profits. In this case it means planting as many acres as possible, and using a lot of water," wrote Todd Yamashita.
Recently, during a drought that emptied reservoirs and forced the local irrigation company to demand 20% water cutbacks from local farmers, Monsanto insisted on the right to take more water and lobbied for a new aquifer to be tapped.
In law, two-thirds of the water from the Molokai irrigation system should go to homestead farmers. In practice big landowners, especially Monsanto, take 84% of the irrigation system's water consumption. Monsanto alone, according to Yamashita, takes almost twice as much water as all 200 homesteaders.
So I think I have this right. In the cause of developing crops that will allow the world's farmers to use less water, Monsanto is so overusing the water in its own backyard that local farmers are have resorted to legal action to get their water back. As the Molokai Dispatch's headline has it: "Monsanto could be its own worst enemy."
end of excerptThe agricultural giant Monsanto may well still be the world's most hated company. The... more
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Fifty recently filed lawsuits allege Monsanto and related companies are responsible for causing cancer.
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."
The complaints say the defendants knew of the dangers.
The defendants "should have known of the highly toxic properties of dioxin and that dioxin was and is a known promoter of cancer and that dioxin was and is a known human carcinogen," the complaints state. The defendants "knew that the area around the Monsanto plant was populated with permanent residents who would likely live out their lives in the area contaminated."
The complaints also detail the history of Monsanto and the company's knowledge regarding dioxin. The Nitro plant produced herbicides, rubber products and other chemicals, including Agent Orange.
Dioxin has been linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, endometriosis, infertility and suppressed immune functions.
The plaintiffs seek compensatory damages for medical bills past and future, lost wages, pain and suffering, mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life. They also seek punitive damages for the "willful, wanton and reckless" actions of the defendants "evidencing a callous disregard for the health and wellbeing of the residents of the Nitro area."
Putnam Circuit Court case numbers 09-C-243 through 09-C-282
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And they want to "feed the world." Be afraid, be very afraid.Fifty recently filed lawsuits allege Monsanto and related companies are responsible... more
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Where is the outrage about the toxic pollution being spread by these vipers? Did it die with Rachel Carson? I know it didn't die in me, and I am getting very tired of reading article after article about Monsanto getting its way to not only pollute our water, but to pollute our food, our land, and the future of our children. This isn't about what THEY WANT.
BAN GLYPHOSATE.
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As it races to replenish phosphate supplies for its weed-killing cash machine Roundup, Monsanto Co. insists its history of polluting southeastern Idaho’s high country shouldn’t prevent it from digging fresh open pits here.
Three of the St. Louis-based chemical company’s previous mines in this region of broad valleys and forested ridges are under federal Superfund authority; a fourth is now violating federal clean water laws. In all, several companies are responsible for polluting at least 17 sites southwest of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
With its current mine in the region nearly played out, Monsanto now wants federal regulators to let the company open a new one by 2011, contending safeguards on the project will keep poisons out of the Blackfoot River. The trout stream just a few hundred yards away is among 15 southeastern Idaho waterways where selenium that leaked from mines exceeds legal state levels.
David Farnsworth, Monsanto mining manager, walked the 1,400-acre Blackfoot Bridge site in late July, describing a liner meant to stop pollution. Even if it fails, he said, vast containment ponds below will keep poisons out of rivers downstream.
"The best laid plans show that Mother Nature changes the game plan," Farnsworth said. "The water shouldn’t become contaminated, but if it does, there are the means to handle it."
Marv Hoyt, of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition in Idaho Falls, counters Monsanto and fertilizer makers J.R. Simplot Co. and Agrium Inc. have squandered all trust with their past pollution.
At J.R. Simplot’s Conda site, hundreds of sheep died in the 1990s after eating toxic forage. Nearby, Canada’s Agrium is spending $500,000 at its North Maybe Mine to control selenium discharges blamed by state wildlife officials for killing all aquatic life in a creek.
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Haven't they gotten away with enough with DDT, Agent Orange, and PCBS?
WAKE UP AMERICA.Where is the outrage about the toxic pollution being spread by these vipers? Did it... more
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There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the
> next 2 weeks before people realize what is happening.
Main backer and lobbyist is Monsanto!
– chemical and genetic engineering giant corporation (and Cargill, ADM, and
about 35 other related agri-giants).
This bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the
newly formed agency to "make sure there is no danger to the public food supply". This will include backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales.
If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds but only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with unexpected diseases in humans.
The name on this outrageous food plan is:
> Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (bill HR 875).
I found this article, with ability to sign a petition at the bottom: http://bit.ly/19dmDd
You can also view the HR 875 and S 425 bills' details : http://bit.ly/10PnX and http://bit.ly/16FBNc
> THIS IS REAL, FOLKS! PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL CONCERNED ON YOUR MAILING LISTS & CALL YOUR SENATE REPRESENTETIVES TODAY!
The following link is a list of the U.S. senators and their:
contact info: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfmThere is an enormous rush to get this into law within the
> next 2 weeks before... more
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Just to reference the last line of this article wherein the reasoning for this is because sales of Round Up are declining. That proves right there that this is about nothing more than profit to these ____. You fill in the blank.
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Five years after shelving plans for biotech wheat, Monsanto is re-entering the wheat business with the purchase of a Montana seed company.
Creve Coeur-based Monsanto, the biggest seller of genetically modified seed, agreed to pay $45 million for WestBred LLC and could introduce new wheat varieties within a few years. WestBred specializes in wheat germplasm, the seed's genetic material.
The size of the deal isn't significant for a company such as Monsanto, whose annual sales exceed $10 billion. But the company's return to a market it abruptly exited in 2004 is noteworthy, especially at a time when demand for wheat to make breads and pasta is growing.
"Wheat is an important crop and has suffered from a lack of technology investment," said Carl Casale, Monsanto's executive vice president of global strategy of and operations. "Over the last several years, its productivity has fallen behind other row crops like corn and soybeans."
The announcement also comes as Monsanto is looking to its seed business as sales of Roundup herbicide are declining at a faster-than-expected pace because of increased global competition.Just to reference the last line of this article wherein the reasoning for this is... more
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The Organization for Competitive Markets is a national, non-profit public policy research organization headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. OCM believes America must work together, across all commodities, toward the common purpose of returning its food and agricultural sector to true supply and demand-based competition. Antitrust, competition and fair trade are important areas of interest to OCM.
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This video deals with the seed monopoly of Monsanto and their patents that are killing competitive markets and squeezing out the American farmer.
American farmers must stand up to Monsanto as farmers in other countries around the world are doing. They should not be allowed to get away with their anti-democratic tactics and lack of business ethics that seek world domination of our seeds at the expense of our economy, our health, and our biodiversity!The Organization for Competitive Markets is a national, non-profit public policy... more
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This post originally focused on NPR; but we’ve since found that the Monsanto ads run on Marketplace, produced by American Public Media, which isn’t directly affiliated with NPR. We regret the confusion.
For years my alarm has been set to pubic radio so I can lie in bed for five minutes and have a grasp on the day’s news before I even get up. I, like many other Americans, rely on NPR and other public-radio shows for news that is what I deem to be as unbiased and fair as possible. But this morning my ears burned as I listened to an on the American Public Media show Marketplace sponsored by Monsanto, the world’s largest corporate agribusiness chemical firm, touting how its genetically modified (GM) seeds are going to save the world from environmental catastrophe and human hunger. It left me wondering, particularly in tough economic times, how do media ethics hold up? (The GMO seed giant has been bombarding liberal-minded publications with similar propaganda, see image to the right, for months.)
The Monsanto ads are quite simply false. The premise of the ad is more or less that Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) seeds are going to save the world from environmental catastrophe and human hunger. All while the corporation made more than 11 billion dollars in 2008 amidst a world food crisis. The catch phrase, “Produce more, conserve more” even has its own website, which conveniently links directly to Monsanto’s website section on “sustainable agriculture”. But the reality of Monsanto’s seeds and the company’s ethics and commitment to fighting world hunger have nothing to do with producing more or conserving more.
Let’s get a few facts on the table. Eighty-five percent of all GM seeds are engineered for herbicide tolerance. Most of these crops are Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” cotton, corn, soy, and canola seeds. What this tolerance means is that the plant can actually withstand significant amounts of pesticides being sprayed on it—in effect promoting pesticide use. In the past farmers were motivated to spray judiciously since their crops could be adversely affected. Farmers growing GM seeds don’t worry about this, and as a result there has been an increase in pesticide use in the United States since the introduction of GM seeds. The most comprehensive independent research done utilizing USDA data demonstrates that since the introduction of GM crops in the United States, more than 120 million pounds of additional pesticides were used. This seems to be a growing trend as well, as the active ingredient in Roundup Ready crops—glyphosate—s becoming less efficient and creating scores of resistant weeds, resulting in increased use.
In 2008 Monsanto’s total sales for Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides was more than $4 billion—up 59 percent from 2007. Perhaps more importantly, its gross profit from such sales was nearly 2 billion dollars- up 131% from 2007. So, what is Monsanto conserving more of? Certainly not biodiversity, human health, wildlife, pollinators or the soil, which are all adversely affected by pesticide use.
The claims of “producing more” that Monsanto touts in the NPR ads are also completely unfounded. Not a single GM crop has been commercially introduced that is intended to increase yield. Agronomists and plant scientists made far greater advances in yields through conventional breeding methods in the 20th century than they ever have with GM crops. In fact, there have been several studies which show that there are actually yield losses associated with Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybeans.This post originally focused on NPR; but we’ve since found that the Monsanto ads run... more
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Si ,lo confesso: questo blog non ha mai tifato per Obama anzi abbiamo sempre nutrito grossi dubbi sulle capacità istituzionali e direttive del fenomeno Obama che era e rimane un fenomeno di natura essenzialmente mediatica.Poco o tanto ,lo riteniamo una Star.Un Regan malriuscito e all'incontrario.Si ,lo confesso .Abbiamo nutrito sempre grossi dubbi che il finanziamento di 700 milioni di dollari ,spesi per la sua campagna elettorale ,decisamente faraonica e tesa ad avvolgere il nostro eroe in una coperta buona per il culto della personalità,provenissero da donazioni popolari a mezzo internet.Una bufala buona e striumentalizzata anche dai nostri modesti liberals nostrani, che non avendo lo straccio di una riforma da proporre si appropriavano della retorica oceanica del figliol prodigo di colore.
La notizia continua nel Pratico Blog...Si ,lo confesso: questo blog non ha mai tifato per Obama anzi abbiamo sempre nutrito... more
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What other word for this is there but evil? Monsanto wants to own ALL the seed.
You cannot patent life.What other word for this is there but evil? Monsanto wants to own ALL the seed.... more
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Slowly but surely the truth will win out about the deception of GMOs. Slowly but surely more and more people around the world are catching on to Monsanto's lies about yields. Slowly but surely the toxic effects of glyphosate which has now poisoned much of our planet will be seen. But will it be too late? Is there any other Monsanto product besides the toxic Aspartame that is still on the market besides their test tube organisms and accompanying poisonous herbicides? Doesn't that tell you something? They even had to sell off rbgh to Eli Lilly because of the truth of that being told as well.
Kudos to Austria, Hungary, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Brazil (which I hope continues this trend) and even Sri Lanka that has banned GMOS. This is the greatest environmental challenge we will face in concert with climate change and water scarcity. If you then don't see how these multinationals are lining up to get your food and water because they see what is coming and are doing all in their power to precipitate it, you are simply not paying enough attention.
MONSANTO KILLS BIODIVERSITY. And biodiversity is the crux of human life and environmental and economic sustainability. Once they take that away and own all of the seed and water, you may as well kiss your future bye bye. That is the truth of it. Which is why I and so many others are fighting so hard by using these mediums to get information out to people to empower them to say NO to GMOS.
Reality will then be our ally.Slowly but surely the truth will win out about the deception of GMOs. Slowly but... more
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Montana Senators have sidelined a seed bill that sought standards for how biotech companies test crops for patent infringement, burying the bill after getting a private dinner with Monsanto representatives.
When farmers buy genetically engineered seeds, they must agree not to harvest and reuse them from year to year. Some farmers, however, argue that pollen can drift with wind and water, exposing small growers to expensive legal tussles with big biotech companies even when they are innocent.
The bill would have required Monsanto and other companies to get permission from a farmer before taking a sample from their crops. If the farmer denied permission, the company could seek a court order. Under the measure, both the farmer or company could also ask the state Department of Agriculture to oversee the sampling.Montana Senators have sidelined a seed bill that sought standards for how biotech... more
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Let the seed satyagraha begin. We need farmers everywhere, particulary here in America to do this. To stand up for biodiversity, the environment, and the health of all of us.Let the seed satyagraha begin. We need farmers everywhere, particulary here in America... more
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Regardless of the PR and propaganda spawned by Monsanto and other biotech companies to have you believe that their GM test tube "foods" are globally accepted and safe, resistance to them is at an all time high and growing. We must keep that momentum going in 2009 because there has never been a more crucial time to be vigilant about our food, water, and environmental sustainability in the face of this push to own it all at our expense.
There is a method to their madness, and a method to taking advantage of the climate crisis and food "crisis" spawned by the the sky is falling announcements of the World Bank: and that is to use them as a reason to flood markets with GM garbage in order to reap a profit off others' misery.
It is not a lack of food that plagues this world, it is lack of access to it and the concerted efforts of agribusiness in league with politicians and other "interests" to undermine education, access, sustainable agriculture, and environmental democracy to benefit themselves in establishing global food fascism.
However, if last year is any indication it has not been as easy for them as they would have you believe. That is good news not only for our health, but for environmental democracy, sustainability, and biodiversity. But now is not the time to think we have won anything, as these companies are now raking in profits and using them for an all out war on organic farming, biodiversity, our food freedom, and all that agriculture has been and represented for centuries.
We have the power in this equation. We are the consumers. We are the farmers. And more and more of us worldwide are standing up and saying, NO TO GMO.Regardless of the PR and propaganda spawned by Monsanto and other biotech companies to... more
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I cannot believe "Forbes" rated monsanto one of the good environmentally responsible corporations. I started to nervously laugh and then I got very angry about it.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/05/best-corporate-citizens-leadership-citizenship-ranking.html?partner=whiteglove_google
At the link scroll down to check out monsanto's ratings.
Are we all going mad in this world? Are most of us corrupted and blind about the destruction of our planet?
For those who are not yet aware of this evil monster destroying our planet check this link and join the battle "Millions against monsanto".
Let's stop them!I cannot believe "Forbes" rated monsanto one of the good environmentally responsible... more
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Not only did Bill Clinton give us GMOs he gave us NAFTA as well that also killed biodiversity of corn in Mexico, by taking the lead of his predecessor Bush Sr (who jokingly was rated 18th as far as presidential greatness) who deregulated the industry. This is a well written and researched account of what went down and how we are now where we are: the complete control of our seeds and global food supply by Monsanto and a handful of biotech/chemical companies. And politicians of both parties have led us to this.
What was recently done in Iraq as well in regards to taking their seeds is a crime and the antithesis to the socalled 'democracy' we were supposed to be delivering under the guise of global hegemony. Wake up and make the connection between Bush, Clinton, Vilsack, the USDA, the FDA, and the Monsanto revolving door with our government and whatever your politics, demand that Monsanto's control over American food policy be ended.
This is one of the most important and crucial issues we now face in light of climate change, economic crisis, population, and specifically health. Diabetes has gone up 90% in the last 10 years, and as the links in this article show there appears to be a corrolation between that and GM/BT foods, specifically in children.
Just what do you consider important in this world? Continuing to read news about Lindsay Lohan's weight, cartoons, or whether kids like music better than sex? Or are we for once going to get to the heart of why media should exist in this country? To report the NEWS that effects our very survival so people know the truth?Not only did Bill Clinton give us GMOs he gave us NAFTA as well that also killed... more
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Satyagraha, a non violent method of civil disobedience wherein participants bypass all laws that seek to deprive them of the basic necessities of life (food, water, shelter, medicine, a sustainable planet, freedom.) Gandhi started such a satyagraha when thousands marched to the sea risking beatings to collect salt on their own in defiance of the British and their tax on it. Dr. Vandana Shiva is now defying the laws of those seeking to patent and own the very seeds of life themselves with a seed satyagraha to speak out for our right to environmental democracy.
What Monsanto and other companies are doing in monopolizing seed is a crime of immense proportions in regards to denying freedom and environmental biodiversity which threatens life. But there are ways to move around their schemes to control our food and water. The wisdom of Gandhi and great advocates of freedom, peace, and environmental democracy like Dr. Shiva are greatly needed in our world now.
Make no mistake about it, Monsanto cares not for your health or for feeding you. They care about profit at any cost even at the expense of the sustainability and biodiveristy of this planet.
Would I walk to the sea risking beating to show my support for food democracy and having a sustainable planet for the future in defiance of Monsanto and all those seeking to deny it to me? Damn right I would. Would you?
Thank you Dr. Vandana Shiva for being a voice of truth, wisdom, and freedom for so many people around this world.Satyagraha, a non violent method of civil disobedience wherein participants bypass all... more
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