while Monsanto’s lobbyists were pulling out the full court press on members of the House to protect agribusiness payouts in the Food and Farm Bill, SNAP benefits for almost 2 million families in need were slashed. If Monsanto is trying to end hunger, you have to wonder where their priorities were during Food and Farm Bill negotiations. GMOs are the antithesis of food sovereignty—patented technology that robs communities of the ability to feed themselves.
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Meet the Opposite of Monsanto -- These Are the Folks That Really Feed the World | Alternet - 0 views
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In April, a long-term study on soil health published in Crop Management demonstrated that organic farming not only improves soil quality, but can also boost yields per acre. Many previous studies have shown that small to medium-sized organic farms growing diverse crops are highly productive, sustaining communities and the land.
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The 'Monsanto Rider': Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law? | ... - 0 views
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Unless the Senate or a citizen’s army of farmers and consumers can stop them, the House of Representatives is likely to ram this dangerous rider through any day now.
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Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has sponsored an amendment to kill the rider, whose official name is “the farmers assurance” provision. But even if DeFazio’s amendment makes it through the House vote, it still has to survive the Senate.
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Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) – who not coincidentally was voted "legislator of the year for 2011-2012" by none other than the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto and DuPont. As reported by Mother Jones, the Biotechnology Industry Organization declared Kingston a "champion of America's biotechnology industry" who has "helped to protect funding for programs essential to the survival of biotechnology companies across the United States."
Dialogic: You Grow Girl: Keeping Tabs on Monsanto - 0 views
Eric Holt-Gimenez: Justice Begins With Seeds (#GMO #Monsanto) | Dandelion Salad - 0 views
Monsanto and its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information by Ralph Nader | Dandelion Salad - 0 views
$10 Million Challenge To Monsanto: Prove Your Crops Are Safe | PopularResistance.Org - 0 views
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New 'Monsanto Papers' Add To Questions Of Regulatory Collusion, Scientific Mischief | H... - 0 views
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Eric Holt Gimenez: Monsanto in Gates' Clothing? The Emperor's New GMOs - 1 views
Battling the 'Monsanto law' in Ghana -- New Internationalist - 0 views
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"'The Plant Breeders Bill aims to replace traditional varieties of seeds with uniform commercial varieties and increase the dependency of smallholders on commercial varieties,' says the Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen. 'This system aims to compel farmers to purchase seeds for every planting season.' Across the world, farmers have got in to dangerous levels of debt at the hands of companies which have come to control their seed supply. 'The economic impact on the lives of farmers will be disastrous,' says Duke Tagoe of Food Sovereignty Ghana. 'The origin of food is seed. Whoever controls the seed control the entire food chain.' "
Pambazuka - Court ruling on GMO case: Why we intend to appeal - 0 views
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It is the contention of FSG that modern biotechnology is a potent and novel technology that presents unique risks. This means that whatever the perceived benefits seen in advances in biotechnology, they must be developed and used with adequate safety measures for the environment and human health. This is why international conventions such as the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) regulating its safe use need to be respected, hence our application for the injunction.
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The "confined field trials" for the Bt cowpeas and the genetically modified rice did little to respect the provisions of Advance Informed Agreement under the Protocols; that advance informed consent includes public awareness and participation in the decision-making processes leading to the intentional release of living modified organisms into the environment.
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The other fact that we intend to contest is the interpretation of the applicability of the CPB and the CBD. Even assuming that the use and handling of internally generated GMOs has nothing to do with transboundary movements, how can a GMO that has been imported from Australia not be a transboundary issue? Is that not what we normally call import and export? Is this an internal matter?
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Monsanto's Sway Over Research Is Seen in Disclosed Emails - The New York Times - 0 views
Study linking GM maize to cancer must be taken seriously by regulators | John Vidal | E... - 0 views
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme 'complicit' in genocidal land grabs - NGOs | Naf... - 1 views
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In west Kenya, as the UK NGO Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) reported, over a thousand homes had been torched by the government's Kenya Forest Service (KFS) to forcibly evict the 15,000 strong Sengwer indigenous people from their ancestral homes in the Embobut forest and the Cherangany Hills.
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Under the REDD scheme companies in the developed world purchase carbon credits to invest in reducing emissions from forested lands. Those credits turn up on the companies' balance sheets as carbon reductions. In practice, however, REDD schemes largely allow those companies to accelerate pollution while purchasing land and resources in the developing world at bargain prices.
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A letter to the Bank in March by No REDD in Africa network (Nran) – a group of African civil society organisations - signed by over 60 international NGOs accused the Bank with the above words of "both admitting its complicity in the forced relocation of the Sengwer People as well as offering to collude with the Kenyan government to cover-up cultural genocide."
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