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katatonic
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posted February 09, 2012 01:42 PM
  
appears to be stronger than our own, aided and abetted by the govts who stand up for their people...
http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/monsanto-closing-operations-in-britain-due-to-opposition-to-gmo-food/ we are moving that way but will corporate america ever get there? IP: Logged |
iQ
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From: Chennai, India
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posted February 11, 2012 06:49 AM
Well done British Citizens!
I hope the entire research is read by Mr Jairam Ramesh of India, to ensure that Monsanto's poisonous tentacles are kept away from Indian Soil. They wanted to destroy our natural crop of Brinjal in 2011. The farmers kicked them out but their lobby of paid PhDs tried very hard to convince the Government to submit. Voters have won for now but a lot more work is needed.
http://www.infowars.com/un-ambush-india-vs-monsanto/ Monsanto has comitetd the crime of Bio-Piracy against the entire planet, and it is now time for British and European Taxpayers to file a trilion dollar lawsuit against them. It is time to shut this monster down, and gobble up all their ill-gotten money for public welfare. ------------------
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katatonic
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posted February 12, 2012 10:56 AM
http://www.gaia-health.com/articles501/000524-save-heirloom-seeds.shtml#.TzWexECdysM.facebook this is about an heirloom seed company among those being shouldered out of business by monsanto's big money and small conscience. they are in need of some support! while heirloom seeds last...! IP: Logged |
jwhop
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From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 13, 2012 12:20 AM
I support the growing and saving of heirloom varieties of vegetable seed.Heirloom varieties are...for the most part long season crops taking a longer growing season to mature than say...hybrids. Another problem is that heirloom varieties have almost no resistance to wilts, fungus or nematodes. In the case of tomatoes, if they're planted in the ground in central or south Florida they'll be dead before they mature a crop. So, they're a container proposition with sterile potting soil and no soil from the Florida garden. The thing..(one)..that bothers me about Monsanto and also the hybrid seed producers is whether Monsanto seed will faithfully reproduce itself in future crops from saved seeds. We already know hybrids will not and if you save seed from hybrids and plant them next year, you'll get a big surprise. In the event of a world wide natural or man made catastrophe, neither Monsanto or the hybrid seed growers are likely to be in operation. But, heirloom seed varieties can be saved and shared in whatever communities survive.
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katatonic
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posted February 14, 2012 02:00 PM
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/france-pesticides-monsanto-idINDEE81C0FQ2012 0213 one of the reasons monsanto is pulling out of europe - tail between legs it seems. it's true that natural plants have their preferences as to soil and general environmental factors. we have become so used to being able to eat any food, anywhere, anytime that it seems weird to have to acknowledge these natural limitations. a nectarine is a hybrid. are you saying that if i plant a nectarine seed it will not sprout and take root? monsanto definitely has created crops whose seeds will not reproduce, preventing people from harvesting their own generations. you would think this would limit their own future too, doesn't make sense to me, unless the lab is the only place these things can be created? however there is the famous case of the canadian canola farmer who harvested seeds from his monsanto-contaminated crop(windborn invasion of his fields); monsanto sued him for doing so...he had to appeal after the first court case but he won in the end. IP: Logged |
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