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Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto's GM Seeds & Instead Plan on Burning Them

Alex Constantine - May 31, 2010

by Sara Novak | TreeHugger | May 30, 2010

monsanto no food 20090311 9471 300x261 - Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto's GM Seeds & Instead Plan on Burning ThemFood Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on biodiversity, on Creole seeds. Monsanto's seed donations were an unwelcomed gift to a country with vocal opposition to GMO seeds for fear they would ruin what little agriculture the country has left.

Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti and MPP leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste has vowed to burn them. According to Food Freedom,

The hybrid corn seeds Monsanto has donated to Haiti are treated with the fungicide Maxim XO, and the calypso tomato seeds are treated with thiram.[3] Thiram belongs to a highly toxic class of chemicals called ethylene bisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs). The EPA determined that EBDC-treated plants are so dangerous to agricultural workers that they must wear special protective clothing when handling them.

Monsanto is trying to create the some addiction it created at home, abroad. Considering that more than 9 out of 10 soybean seeds in the U.S. are linked to Monsanto. It's the same for cotton and just a little lower for corn. That gives Monsanto complete control over seed companies because no seed company could survive without selling Monsanto's Round Up Ready Seeds. I wrote last year that with a monopoly on the industry the company can increase prices. In the end, this cycle will hurt farmers who depend on the seeds because farmers can't risk the litigation that would ensue should they replant the seeds. While the initial donation would be free, peasant farmers could never afford to continually pay from them year after year. It's a heartless scheme.

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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/haitian_farmers_refuse_monsantos_seeds_and_instead_commit_to_burning_them.php#ch01

4 comments.

  1. Monsanto seed donation to Haiti would have been the introduction of a Trojan horse there.
    This multinational agricultural biotechnology corporations as well as DuPont are specialized in genetically modified organisms-GMO which I call “General Malefactor Organization.”
    This company was involves in the production of Agent Orange for us military during the Vietnam War.
    Monsanto first genetically modify a plant cell in 1982.Subsequently, its patented seeds have been distributed under the appellation of “Terminator” that produces plants that have sterile seeds so they do not flower or grow fruit after the initial planting which means that the farmers are compelled the buy seeds year after year from Monsanto
    Those GMO seeds are protected by intellectual property laws which are vigorously enforced by the US government for infringement. The company collects royalty during harvest time. Those gangsters seized nature and declared it to be their properties. Pretty soon when Monsanto or DuPont will start modifying fœtus genetically, the parents of the new born will be require paying royalty at the child birth day since the child will technically is the company property. After the child reach adulthood he or she will have to continue to pay such royalty to the company for ever or the company will deactivate the bionic enhancements or selective section of their memories will be erased.
    We are moving from the natural to the artificial. We are moving from the normal to the abnormal. Pretty soon they will say the abnormal are normal and the normal are now abnormal. If you have any doubts, think hard, open your eyes and Just look around or pick up your newspapers.

    Read more: http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/haiti-refuses-monsanto-donation/#ixzz13wNaBx7E

  2. Good Move!
    Monsanto is like a drug dealer- they are pushing their suicide seeds. United States of Anything Incorporated should be so smart! Obama appointed Monsanto men to head up FDA and USDA so the People have the dangerous GE food throughout the food supply. People do not want genetically altered food so they need to BUY ORGANIC and STOP SUPPORTING MONSANTO!

    “Deeds of Destruction – Government, Monsanto, Chemtrails and Food”;
    http://saynotocorporateamerica.blogspot.com/2011/01/deeds-of-destruction.html

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