Hundreds of thousands in 500 cities worldwide protest against Monsanto
The protesters took to the streets in hundreds of cities around the world on Saturday and demanded an immediate ban on the production of the multinational biotech and agribusiness. They said the company works unethically in its development and implementation of genetically tailored seeds and pesticides.
German Retail Giant Removes Glyphosate from 350 Stores
Bermuda Bans Monsanto’s Roundup From the Island
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal!
the whole peer-review system has [become unreliable] in recent years for a host of flaws and irregularities, ranging from lackadaisical reviewing to … outright fraud.
“From falling GMO grain prices to a rising tide of public distrust of genetically modified ingredients, failing GMO traits, higher GMO seed prices, and the premium prices that people willingly pay for quality food over toxic junk, the conventional farmer is changing his tune when it comes to Big Ag practices.”
Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolai Fyodorov believes that Russia must remain a GMO-free country. At a meeting of deputies representing rural areas organized by United Russia, he said that the government will not “poison their citizens.”
Bruce Blumberg, another board member, who is a biology professor at the University of California, Irvine, said: “The cultivation of herbicide resistant crops is widespread in the US, and the use of the herbicides to which these crops are resistant has increased many-fold in the decades since they were introduced.
The case is Cargill Inc. v. Syngenta Seeds Inc., 67061, 40th Judicial District Court for Parish of St. John the Baptist, Louisiana.
We could be quickly facing a national or international crisis of monumental proportions.
Along these lines, in closing, I’d like to share my opinion that GMO crops are a form of “weaponized agriculture”. Making foreign countries dependent on externally-supplied GMO seeds leaves them open to the worst sort of extortion and could lead to wars and global instability.
An “Open Letter from World Scientists to All Governments Concerning Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs),” http://www.i-sis.org.uk/list.php, signed by 828 scientists from 84 countries, detailed concern regarding GMOs
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