…of destruction to human beings and the environment…
And President Obama signs the Monsanto Protection Act. WTH?
From the Union of Concerned Scientists link:
In 2008—the last year a federal Farm Bill was completed—the company reported a whopping $8.8 million in lobbying expenditures (see table below) intended to influence decisions in Congress, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other federal agencies.
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$8 million. Just for lobbying, folks….that’s not counting the money spent on persecuting farmers. It was common for farmers to keep seeds to plant crops with–nothing was wrong with that….until Monsanto made it illegal…and one has to ask why? Why are they allowed to persecute farmers for saving seed? In some cases, such as Percy Schmeiser, a farmer doesn’t even have to have purchased the poisonous seeds….
Don’t forget the Hoosier farmer fighting this Goliath in the Supreme Court.
One of the articles I passed over with my search made a statement that Monsanto’s seeds are popular with farmers…perhaps that is what the problem is…and where the solution lies…NOT purchasing seeds from Monsanto. I think it is going to take a helluva boycott on the part of the farmers to bring this giant to its knees. It’s obvious by now that the gov’t is not going to do the right thing and regulate this poisonous agriculture or the corporation responsible for it. And Monsanto is doing its best to destroy the family farm.
What a fight on our hands….