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Monsanto’s Many Attempts to Destroy All Seeds but Their Own

Posted by: Clare Swinney ⋅ March 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
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Tags: food as a weapon, monopoly, Monsanto, seeds Posted in: Environment, Health, News

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/03/07/Monsantos-Many-Attempts-to-Destroy-All-Seeds-but-Their-Own.aspx

Some say that if farmers don’t want problems from Monsanto, they simply shouldn’t buy Monsanto’s GMO seeds. But it isn’t quite that simple. Monsanto contaminates the fields, trespasses onto the land taking samples, and then sues, saying they own the crop.

Meanwhile, Monsanto is taking many other steps to keep farmers and everyone else from having any access at all to buying, collecting, and saving of normal seeds:

1. They’ve bought up the seed companies across the Midwest.

2. They’ve written Monsanto seed laws and gotten legislators to put them through, that make cleaning, collecting and storing of seeds so onerous in terms of fees and paperwork that having normal seed becomes almost impossible.

3. Monsanto is pushing laws that ensure farmers and citizens can’t block the planting of GMO crops even if they can contaminate other crops.

4. There are Monsanto regulations buried in the FDA rules that make a farmer’s seed cleaning equipment illegal because it’s now considered a “source of seed contamination.”

Monsanto has sued more than 1,500 farmers whose fields had simply been contaminated by GM crops.

Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t

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2 comments for “Monsanto’s Many Attempts to Destroy All Seeds but Their Own”

What can I do to help block legislation and attempts by Monsanto to force their seeds upon farmers and the world? How can I stop them from continuing to contaminate our food supply?

Posted by LILLIE YOUNG | April 5, 2009, 5:31 pm
TAKE ACTION: Call your U.S. Representative and Senators. If you do not know who represents you, you can find out at http://www.congress.org or by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. Ask to speak to the staffer who handles food safety issues.

Talk with the staffer about why you support local foods. Tell them you oppose S425, S510, HR 814, HR 759, and HR 875. Ask that they support a food safety bill that focuses on the real threats to food safety, such as uninspected imports from China and lack of inspections of massive slaughterhouses and other factory processing.

Tell them you want any food safety bill to explicitly exempt small farmers. Explain that this issue cannot be left to the agencies’ discretion, and you want new regulations expressly limited to the large factory farms and processing facilities, not small and local producers.

Posted by Paul Turner | April 22, 2009, 3:53 pm