Vidarbha farmers, widows to protest Obama's visit

The main point is not that we aren't taking in their cotton, the point is that Monsanto's cotton is killing and controlling them and because of the subsidies we give to farmers here just to support these corporations over family farms that cotton and corn gets preference and kills their market for other vegetables and commodities as well thus keeping them dependent on US when they would rather grow their own and have the freedom to sell it in their own countries without having to go into debt for imputs and seeds they cannot save. That is not fair or free trade.

Also, corn and cotton subsidies given here are not helping many small American farmers either who are going out of business not just because of the economics of it but the contamination of their organic crops by GMO pollution being grown from it. Dairy farmers are truly feeling it (which is why the GE alfalfa case is so important to their livelihoods) and farmers in this country have committed suicide as well. However, we don't hear about those things in the MSM because it is controlled by the same entities through millions spent on PR, propaganda and ads, and people lke Bill Gates buying millions in Monsanto stock under the guise of being a philanthropist.

Monsanto through collusion with this govenment since the 1990s has done nothing but work to consolidate the entire food industry under them and leave small farmers out in the cold be it India, Paraguay, France, or America. So yes, this is a worthy discussion to have because we need to see the deep seated frustrations and understand just how endemic seeds are to the love and lives farmers all over this world share with this Earth.

A love for the Earth and a respect for it Monsanto cannot even comprehend because they are not farmers they are poison makers using farmers for profit. What drives a cotton farmer in Vidarbha to actually take a bottle of Round Up and drink it speaks to the core of our responsibility for perpetuating this failing industrialized agricultural model. And to me, it is heartbreaking.

hmm... any wonder what snake voted me down. Very big of you!

Voted down by ME, because if you wanted to contribute to the article at hand, you could have done so instead of pointing fingers and trying to be insulting. I realize you're new, but jan has been posting articles about environmental awareness for years now, even before Obama was elected.

Jan is not a fearmongerer. She brings awareness to issues that affect people around the world.

Please find me a post where you can prove that Jan is racist against a black president. Please, just one.

Yes, they are, and they have much to now deal with. Even though their husbands committed suicide the debts are not wiped away as they now try to work to save whatever land is still worth working. This is why I am so grateful to Vandana Shiva for all of her work with Navdanya to provide natural seeds that can be saved which is also saving lives. It is such a crime what Monsanto has done to the people here, not to mention those they now do the same thing to in South America with soy monoculture. And If he does see them I do not believe they would be satisfied with anything less but him promising some sort of accountability for where these policies have led them. They have lost their seed, their land, their loved ones, in many cases their animals and still struggle to survive.Talking is good, but Monsanto needs to be made accountable.

Take your spam and shove it way up

Boy did you miss the point.

I voted you down , because this has to do with corporations , not country . There is NO BENEFIT TO AMERICA from these corporations controlling our government . They lie and poison us as well . In that country , they have just noticed better .

Wow, thanks. I'm glad to know that America is allowed to screw over the world because it's so freaking important. People are dying, but who cares? America first!

Then as such why should a U.S. company have the right to just come in and take their land and seeds without their consent and by deception? Monsanto owns the USDA and FDA that approved those seeds and granted them patents. I think since he has had a hand in appointing Monsanto employees like Michael Taylor to high level positions in the US government that support Monsanto's global deception and environmental terrorism that led to this that he should have some pull, no?