Guatemalan Indigenous Communities Beat Monsanto & Seed Privatization
Jeff Abbott – For 10 days, the streets in front of the legislature were clogged with thousands of protesters demanding the repeal of the law…
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The Right To Farm Organically – Australian Farmer Fights Monsanto in Landmark Seed Contamination Suit
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Across the globe, farmers who choose to plant non-genetically modified seed instead of patented seed varieties from the agro-chemical giants like Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta and BASF, are being forced out of business by the burden and costs of fighting seed patent lawsuits. Targeting farms who do not pay ‘technology …
Hey Monsanto, Did You Hear That?
Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times This past Saturday, May 25th, 2013, millions of people worldwide publicly protested against Monsanto, the corporation that has become the driving force and the figure head behind the effort to monopolize control of food and to genetically modify staple crops to become dependent on toxic chemicals. This may have been …
Monsanto: How Cheap Food Makes Us All Poor
Tracy Kolenchuk, Guest Writer Waking Times I’ve seen a lot of posts telling us how bad Monsanto is and I tend to agree with them. Here’s one view of the history of Monsanto: The World According to Monsanto part 1 of 10. However, I wanted to take a look at Monsanto from a health point of view. …