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GMO Crop Sabotage on the Rise
Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Ignored by multinational corporations and corrupt public policy makers, citizens act to protect the food supply and the planet.
The French vineyard is the same field attacked last year when the plants were only cut. But the security features installed after that incident kept authorities at bay while the group accomplished its mission yesterday.
Speaking for the group, Olivier Florent told Le Figero that they condemned the use of public funds for open-field testing of GMOs “that we do not want.”
Pitching tents in the rain near France’s National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) site in Colmar the night before, the group waited until 5 AM before converging on the site and locking the gates behind them. They uprooted all 70 plants, then submitted to arrest.
This is the second attack on GMO crops to make international news this year. In July dozens of people destroyed two experimental corn crops in Spain. In an anonymous press release, they wrote, “This kind of direct action is the best way to respond to the fait accompli policy through which the Generalitat, the State and the biotech multinationals have been unilaterally imposing genetically modified organisms.”
In the late 1990s, Indian farmers burnt Bt cotton fields in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Monsanto did not disclose to farmers that the GM seeds were experimental. “Despite the heavy use of chemical fertiliser, traces of which still can be observed in the field, the Bt plants grew miserably, less than half the size of the traditional cotton plants in the adjacent fields.”
After the Haiti earthquake this year, Monsanto offered 475 tons of hybrid corn and terminator vegetable seeds in partnership with USAID. In June, 10,000 Haitian farmers marched in protest of the “poison gift” which produces no viable seeds for future plantings and requires heavy chemical inputs. Haitian farm leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste observed that the biotech plan makes farmers dependent on multinational corporations.
In the US, GMOs were secretly foisted on the public in the mid-1990s, and only now is the US Supreme Court addressing the scourge. In June, the high court upheld partial deregulation of GM alfalfa, which permits limited planting while the USDA prepares an Environmental Impact Statement. Natural and organic alfalfa supply is threatened by the very real potential of GM contamination. This would destroy the organic meat and dairy industry.
Last Friday, a federal court took a tougher position on GM sugar beets. Judge Jeffrey S. White revoked USDA approval of the GM beet, while allowing for its planting this year only.
Also this month, a British farmer exposed that milk and meat from cloned animals had secretly entered the food supply.
Public opposition to GM crops has grown in recent years as more evidence surfaces that DNA-altered crops:
■Require massive chemical inputs which destroy local biodiversity and poison the water tables;
■Cross-pollinate with natural and weedy crops;
■Create superweeds; and
■Have been shown to cause organ damage, sterility, and diabetes and obesity in mammals.
Meanwhile, President Obama has stacked his Administration with biotech insiders going so far as to appoint Islam Siddiqui as Agriculture Trade Negotiator. Siddiqui is a former pesticide lobbyist and vice president of CropLife America, a biotech and pesticide trade group that lobbies to weaken environmental laws.
The US is pushing hard at the world to accept GM foods. Recently, the American Farm Bureau Federation called for stronger sanctions against the European Union for its GM crop ban.
But as governments and trade agreements circumvent the will of the people, some take matters into their own hands. The rise in GMO crop destruction is a clear indication that the world’s people reject chemical and genetic pollution of the food supply and the environment.
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http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/gmo-crop-sabotage-on-the-rise-french-citizens-destroy-gmo-vineyard/
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YES!!!
This is the way to handle the Monsanto Mafia gangsters.
Very good EUROPE!
and Thank you for these actions!
Looks like other countries such as France, Spain and India are getting smarter than the US and fighting back at the insanity of GMO crops. Congrats to those who had the courage to stand up and oppose this problem.
I am horrified and deeply disappointed to hear that President Obama has stacked his Administration with biotech insiders and appointed Islam Siddiqui as Agriculture Trade Negotiator. Siddiqui has a history of being a former pesticide lobbyist and vice president of CropLife America, a biotech and pesticide trade group that lobbies to weaken environmental laws. Early in his administration I read about Obama’s family having their own organic garden and how he was so concerned about health. This is a complete reversal and betrayal of our trust in the man many of us voted for!
GMO crops endanger human, plant and animal life of the planet and the actual future of this planet and life as we know it. These are man made disasters. They don’t work and cause incredible damage and potential risks and problems.
I applaud their courage and strength! To stand up to the dictates of greed and the government that goes hand in hand with it, is testament to the degree to which people are waking up on this planet. It is a beautiful thing to witness! GMO’s are just another in their long list of attempts to get “the CODEX” enacted on this planet so “they” can control ALL the food!They are sooooooo sneaky. I am grateful to the watchdogs that let us know of their antics so we can cut them off! With out the watchdogs we would be eating GMO food and living much shorter lives,increasingly, all over the world. (…not that “they” want us to live anyway…)
I am grateful to the diligent farmers and workers who grow my organic food and contribute greatly to my personal health and enjoyment! The blessings of the whole Universe be on them!
Is there somebody out there willing to take on Monsanto??? someone took down the toabacco industry, Monsanto needs monitoring. They are the next PCand G, like in the movie Erin Brockevich. Who will slay this dragon?? Help the human race.
The issue here is about as clear as it can get. Our corrupt and ultimately genocidal government is poisoning our food supply with the chronically poisonous GMO toxic “foods”. There are over 800 GMO “foods” awaiting approval. Folks this is a mass slaughter or us, our kids and grand kids in perpetuity.
If they do not know what they are doing they should be removed for incompetence. If they do know what they are doing they should be sent to prison or worse. I favor worse.
Ann
The very sad truth is Monsanto is a creature of the CIA; or they are both creatures of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers.
Somehow we need to get an honest federal government or the Rockefeller HHS will continue to kill us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD7dbkkBIA
CONTACT JESSIE VENTURA’S SHOW ” CONSPIRACY THEORY AND POST A REQUEST HE DO A FULL EXPOSE ON THE MONSANTO MONEY MAFIA AND IT’S FOOD OR SEEDS OF DECEPTION, I JUST KNOW IN MY BONES IF ENOOUGH PEOPLE GET THE IDEA ON THIS TOPIC AND FLOOD THE TRUE TV.COM/CONSPIRACY THEORY.COM WE CAN HELP STOP THE SOB’S
I DID WRITE, I DID REQUEST, SO YOU ALL THAT READ THIS PLEASE DO IT TOO I THANK AND THE REGULAR GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WILL TOO, WE MUST STOP THE MADNESS, WE MUST STOP THE GENOCIDE OF US AND THE PLANET AND THE NWO AGENDA OF PROFITS OVER PEOPLE AND THE PLANET FOR ALL MIGHTY DOLLAR AT OUR HEALTH OR LIVES EXPENSE.
THEIR IDEA IS SIMPLE, RUIN THE GROUND WORK OR BASIS FOR ORGANIC FOODS, RENDER THEM USELESS OR UNATAINABLE AND HENCE DESTROY THEM AND GET YOUR TOXIC PRODUCTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD WHILE SOMEHOW THEY WILL INSULATE THEMSELVES, THEIR DIRECT FAMILIES AND OTHER ELITES WILL ALSO SOMEHOW AVOID THE TOXIC DAMAGE OF THEIR ASSOCIATED MONSTER CREATED PRODUCTS…. CAN WE SAY THIS AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD…. CAN WE SAY ” PROBLEM….REACTION AND SOLUTION…..THEIRS… PROFITS AND CONSUMER SLAVERY AND CONTAMINATION OF OUR HEALTH, BOY BIG PHARMA WILL JUST LOVE IT $$$
HOW CLEVER MONSANTO’S CRIME INC HAS BECOME
Organic foods still are able to use Bt pesticide legally and use the manure from animals fed GE crops. The BEST option is to buy food that has not been G.E. (see nongmoeatingguide.com) Also eatwild.com is a site that has farms in your area that sell pastured and grass fed meats. Also buy fruits and veggies from local farmers markets in your area. If you garden buy heirloom seeds. These seeds are seeds that farmers have been saving and using for years and years. IF you garden use mulch or netting instead of pesticides. ALL PESTICIDES CLAIM they are safe for humans,, PFFFFTT.. I dont believe a word. Asthma, diabetes, obesity, chrons, cancer and fibromyalgia and soooo much more have risen dramatically since the commercial introduction of GE foods. Is this a coincidence? The honey bees have been declining at a rapid rate. This is TERRIBLE news for the planet. Many believe the bees are disappearing due to GE canola. So GARDEN yourself and go to eatwild.com