http://naturalsociety.com/gmo-compounds-100-percent-pregnant-women-fetuses/

Holding hands Rosemary on this one…….DDT’s MSG’s Cholo-Doxiltidre to name but a few poisoning man to the nth…a real “FRIGHT NIGHT”
but if we can’t even get Govt to plant lil corn or potato …how D hell we can look forward to this ask ? I see they advertise for a tractor driver at BADMC….Are the 5 John Deere green machines here?

See below for another video documentary, Bitter Seeds related to the takeover of the cotton seed supply in India by Monsanto’s GM cotton seeds.

After Monsanto and its local partners (paying royalties to Monsanto) monopolised the cotton seed market in India the number of suicides among the peasant cotton farmers have skyrocketed. This relates to the fact that they are forced into buying Monsanto’s expensive, patented, GM seeds and the chemical pesticides and fertilizers that are necessary to allow them to grow. Their traditional low-cost or no-cost seeds are no longer available to the farmers. These would be seeds that were adaptable to local conditions and could be fertilized with cow dung, as one old farmer explained. Although they are growing Bt cotton which has the Bt protein produced in the plant to kill insect pests they still found it necessary to apply chemical pesticides against some varieties of plant pests.

Now the farmers have to go into debt to purchase Monsanto seeds and associated agro-chemicals, either with loans from banks or at exorbitant interest rates from money lenders if the banks won’t lend to them. If rains are scarce and yields are poor they are left unable to pay off the debt. The GM cotton plants are much more water dependent than the traditional cotton plants, so any droughts or rainfall shortages are more apt to damage the GM cotton plants. (As an aside, the GM corn grown extensively in the US now is also more water dependent than non GM corn.. This significantly exacerbated the effect of this years drought on the corn crop in the Mid West. I’ll try to find the information on this and post it later,)

The video gives a very interesting glimpse into life and customs (some of which we would see as backwards or at best “quaint”, e.g. arranged marriages, payment of wedding dowries from the brides’ families to the grooms’ families etc.) of the peasant farmers in rural India today and the effect that the switch from conventional to GM seeds is having on their lives.

Warning, the video is a bit slow to load. I have a 1Mbs connection and I finally decided to let it download overnight and watch it the next morning.

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ha damned idiots trying to play GOD, as for me i still eating my ground food

David wrote “The BLP has no credibility to speak on the issue of agriculture.”

That is not entirely true David. They would not let some small farmers sub-divide and sell some of their land thereby preserving it for future agricultural use.
I hope Owen has a good memory.

@ David
THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Bushie watched that video….well worth the 90 minutes, even for a bushman who already knew 90% of the facts presented.

EVERY BU FAMILY MEMBER NEEDS TO WATCH IT!

In my last post above I referred to the profit driven corporate media’s self censorship re. reporting on the harmful effects that independent scientists have linked to genetically engineered seeds and their resultant crops. Here is an example of the type of economic pressure a large multi-national like Monsanto can apply to keep stories it doesn’t like from being aired over mainstream media sources.

Two investigative reporters for a Fox News station in Florida had prepared a report on Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone using various well documented sources to conclude that the product could lead to increased cancer risk in humans consuming dairy products from treated cows in addition to other harmful side effects. Just before they went to air with the report the station management put a hold on the program and then tried to kill it off and fire the two reporters in response to pressure from Monsanto, who just happened to be a fairly significant advertiser on the Fox News network.

It’s all explained in this video excerpt from the documentary The Corporation:

@Rosemary Parkinson,

Monsanto has been buying up seed supply companies worldwide and doing their best to take traditional non-GM seeds off the market leaving many farmers with no choice but to buy Monsanto’s GM seeds. This is what has happened to a large extent in India with their cotton seed supply as described in the Bitter Seeds documentary I linked above. I honestly don’t know how much this impacts Barbados at this point in time, i.e. whether or not we can still just as easily get non-GM corn seeds, for example, as we can Monsanto’s patented GM seeds for our farmers. .

However, beyond the issue of Monsanto’s increasing monopolization of the world’s seed supply there the fact remains that Barbados is an insignificant dot in the ocean while Monsanto and the other pushers of proprietary, patented bio-technology and genetic engineering are very rich, very powerful and are joined at the hip to the US government. Through their political contributions they bring the politicians onside and through the revolving door, (i;e. executives and personnel moving back and forth between companies like Monsanto and the US regulatory agencies like the FDA – just Google “Monsanto revolving door”) Monsanto’s policy becomes US government policy,

You can be sure when it comes to dealing with a pipsqueak upstart like Barbados, for example, who might appear to threaten to break away from the reservation and set a bad example by telling Monsanto that we don’t want their patented seeds and we don’t want to continually have to spend our scarce foreign exchange in payment of royalties to Monsanto for the privilege of dumping increasing quantities of Monsanto’s glyphosate laden Roundup herbicide on the land, a word from a Monsanto exec to some high level politician is all it takes for instructions to be passed to the State Department that Barbados be reminded that for our own “best interests” its best not to rock the Monsanto boat. E.g you want some funding to help with your fight in the war on drugs and cutting down the trade in illegal firearms; you want smooth sailing for the new IMF loan you want to take out to help build the new hospital, well act accordingly.. (Google Tales of an Economic Hit Man, if you have not heard of it before).

The US does talk a fine talk on “freedom” and “democracy” and the theoretical benefits of the capitalist, free enterprise system where consumers can freely chose between a range of different options as to which option they believe best suits their own needs. However, when freedom and democracy and consumer choice threaten the profits of powerful multinationals with political connections in Washington, sad to say, freedom and democracy are quickly pushed into the back seat.

Leaked: US to Start ‘Trade Wars’ with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops,/b>
September 9, 2012
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The Leaked Political Agenda Behind Monsanto’s GMO Crops

The ambassador plainly calls for ‘target retaliation’ against nations who are against using Monsanto’s genetically modified corn, admittedly linked to organ damage and environmental devastation. Amazingly, this is not an isolated case. In similar newly released cables, United States diplomats are found to have pushed GMO crops as a strategic government and commercial imperative. Furthermore, the U.S. specifically targeted advisers to the pope, due to the fact that many Catholic bishops and figureheads have openly denounced GMO crops. In fact, the Vatican has openly declared Monsanto’s GMO crops as a ‘new form of slavery’.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Leaked%3A_US_to_Start_%E2%80%98Trade_Wars%E2%80%99_with_Nations_Opposed_to_Monsanto%2C_GMO_Crops/21413/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Green Monkey…I am glad that someone else had the guts to spill out the truth…I know it…have known it for a long time but I am considered a radical conspiracy theorist. The United States of America and its connection to Monsanto has a lot to answer for. I have asked enough questions. It is a wonder I am still alive. I have heard the most horrific stories about this company and their illegal actions…it cannot be legal to force chemicals on human beings and foods that have pesticides in their DNA…it cannot be legal to kill off people by stroking their health into oblivion…it cannot be legal to ‘supposedly’ own terrorists groups…but then…that’s ‘supposedly’ our big brother. ‘supposedly’ looking out for the interest of peace and love worldwide. I have been for so long shocked that humanity has reached such an insensitive way of dealing with life on this earth that I am now officially numb. May the Powers That Be of the Universe help us.