Global Protest against MONSANTO -5/25 -- AMAZING

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:snoop: @ this gettin no replies



sad people in fukkin south africa know what monsanto is but the crew @ #higherlearning here in america has no idea and dont even know why they should care :snoop:

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I participated in the march where I live. Took mad pictures. It's amazing to me, how a few months ago we were being called hippies, but after enduring the ridicule, the rest of the world is waking up and now having conversations with us.
 
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Admiral Ackbar said:
I participated in the march where I live. Took mad pictures. It's amazing to me, how a few months ago we were being called hippies, but after enduring the ridicule, the rest of the world is waking up and now having conversations with us.
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it really is.. 42 different countries world wide


:salute: for your participation


where was your march @?
 
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Admiral Ackbar said:
I participated in the march where I live. Took mad pictures. It's amazing to me, how a few months ago we were being called hippies, but after enduring the ridicule, the rest of the world is waking up and now having conversations with us.
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People don't think about the effects of genetically modified food until it's about to hit their plates. Then it becomes :stop: :whoa: let's discuss this. From the reading I've done on the subject I can see the good side of genetically modified foods, I like the ability to fortify foods with vitamins, but I don't like the effects they will have on pests and the insect ecosystems that come up along with planted fields.


Monsanto can eat a box of dikks though.
 
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ROFL_GUY said:
it really is.. 42 different countries world wide


:salute: for your participation


where was your march @?
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thanks, breh. :salute: for this thread. I'm out in Hawaii.

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People don't think about the effects of genetically modified food until it's about to hit their plates. Then it becomes :stop: :whoa: let's discuss this. From the reading I've done on the subject I can see the good side of genetically modified foods, I like the ability to fortify foods with vitamins, but I don't like the effects they will have on pests and the insect ecosystems that come up along with planted fields.


Monsanto can eat a box of dikks though.
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Yeah, GMOs can boost yields, but they get out of hand with killing insects that the ecosystem needs, and the patents that prevent fruits/veggies from producing viable seeds rigs the game. Farmers are forced to buy seeds only from Monsanto.
 
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http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/Pages/monsanto-history.aspx

The original Monsanto enters into a merger and changes its name to Pharmacia Corporation. (For a detailed history about the relationships among Monsanto Company, Pharmacia Corporation, Pfizer Inc., and Solutia Inc.

Former Monsanto is today known as Pharmacia. Pharmacia is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., which together with its subsidiaries operates the Pharmaceuticals Business.
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Remember the horrors of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War, when the US military designed a chemical warfare program and used the herbicide and defoliant Agent Orange to kill and maim 400,000 people (estimated by the Vietnam government), and ultimately cause birth defects for 500,000 children? Monsanto made that possible.

Monsanto began as a chemical company in 1901 and was responsible for some of the most damaging toxins in US history, like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s), and dioxin. Consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch (FWW) released a report on APril 3 detailing Monsanto’s role in chemical disasters, Agent Orange, and the first genetically modified plant cell. The report shows that the “feed-the-world” agricultural and life sciences company Monsanto markets itself as today is only a recent development. The majority of Monsanto’s history is involved with heavy industrial chemical production, including the supply of Agent Orange to the US for Vietnam operations from 1962-'71.

You might have heard about the 75-year-old soybean farmer from Indiana, Vernon Hugh Bowman, who was ordered in the beginning of May to pay Monsanto $85,000 in damages for using second-generation seeds genetically modified with Monsanto’s pesticide resistant “Roundup Ready,” treatment. He pulled the seeds from the local grain elevator, which is usually used for feed crop, and planted them. The court decided Monsanto’s patent extends even to the offspring of its seeds, and the farmer had violated the company’s patent.

Bowman is by no means the only US farmer to be sent into debt at Monsanto’s hands. Monsanto reported enormous profits from 2012 to shareholders in January, while American farmers filed into Washington, DC to challenge the corporation’s right to sue farmers whose fields have become contaminated with Monsanto’s seeds. Oral arguments began on January 10 before the U.S. Court of Appeals to decide whether to reverse the cases' dismissal last February. The corporation’s total revenue reached $2.94 billion at the end of 2012, and its earnings nearly doubled analysts' projections.

In the article, “Monsanto's Earnings Nearly Double as They Create a Farming Monopoly”—originally published in Al Jazeera and reprinted on AlterNet on January 16—Charlotte Silver outlines how Monsanto has increased the price of the Roundup herbicide and exploiting its patent on transgenic corn, soybean and cotton, to gain control over those agricultural industries in the US, “…effectively squeezing out conventional farmers (those using non-transgenic seeds) and eliminating their capacity to viably participate and compete on the market.” The company also uses its power to coerce seed dealers out of stocking many of its competitor products.

Private corporations already own 5 percent of the world's fresh water. Billionaires and companies, including Monsanto, are purchasing the rights to groundwater and aquifers. In an even more ominous twist, Monsanto is accused of dumping its plethora of toxic chemicals, including PCBs, dioxin and glyophosate (Roundup) into the water supply of various nations worldwide. Then, seeing a profitable market niche, it has begun privatizing those water sources it polluted, filtering the water, and selling it back to the public.

Ex-Monsanto executives run the United States Food and Drug Administration, the agency tasked with ensuring food safety for the American public.

Obama signed the law on March 29. It allows the agribusiness giant to promote and plant GMO and GE seeds free from any judicial litigation that might deem such crops unsafe. Even if a court review determines that a GMO crop harms humans, Section 735 allows the seeds to be planted once the USDA approves them.
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Mowgli said:
:lupe: What in the world? These are the liberals yall support?
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Liberals? Maybe you didn't notice the explicit connection of the ambassador to Bush as it was clearly spelled out in the article? This is an issue that transcends the liberal/conservative divide.
 
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