[AlpacaTalk] Re: Monsanto Brings Small Family Dairy to Court
This is just business as usual for Monsanto. As many of you know I
am/was a small organic farmer. I have been following these battles for
years. Monsanto is bringing the world to its knees. And no one in
our gov't seems to care or be able or have the will to do anything about
it. European countries stopped buying our corn years ago because it is
GM, yet our gov't seems oblivious. No other country allows this in
their food supply - except USA. What did "we" do? We just started
mandating that all gasoline be at least 10% ethanol made from
corn......to keep the price up (for corn) and made gasoline so unstable
we can no longer store it and it gums up all our gasoline using
equipment; my mechanic says not to leave gasoline in even a chain saw,
etc for more than a week. It is set to go to 15% this year.
Monsanto has been suing small farmers for a long long time. Their seed
is "protected" meaning you are not allowed to save it to grow the
following year; farmers (that use those sorts of seed and products) are
forced to purchase new seed each year. This is BIG business. Farmers
that start down this path are enslaved. Their crops require ever
higher levels of synthetic fertilizers and herbicides - which pleases
Monsanto. Monsanto sends undercover folks out to gather samples from
corn, soy and other crop fields; if some of their "protected" genetic
material is found to exist in the gathered material the farmer is sued
for infringement of copyright protected material. Organic farmers have
been screaming for years that we cannot protect our crops from
contamination of GM pollen; we weren't worried about being sued, we just
didn't want our crops and seeds contaminated. A few organic farmers
tried suing Monsanto for contaminating their crops.....all to no
avail. Then Monsanto started suing them/us. One of many reasons I
am no longer a farmer. The world has gone insane.
Bees are declining, everyone knows that; no one seems to know why. They
just don't want to face facts. What many sadly do not realize and it
is not publicized is that all pollinators are suffering the same
collapse. What many do not realize is it is (for the honey bees) a
combination of the high fructose corn syrup (highly refined product made
from GM corn) many beeks started using years ago because it is cheap and
easy and they are greedy and want the bees to work hard for them; they
don't want to share the bounty, so they feed their slaves the cheapest
substitute they can find - HFCS (or white sugar which is bad enough, but
not as bad as the HFCS because at least it is not yet made from GM
crop), which weakens a system whether it be human or critter; a weakened
system is then susceptible to more disease, (the answer to which is
"treating" the bees with ever more chemicals further weakening the
system and contaminating the wax comb where these chemicals accumulate
and build up year after year) and cannot effectively fight off the
assaults from all around them - hive beetles, mites, wax moths, ants,
yellow jackets, etc which they have been dealing effectively with for
many many years (they can even deal with a mouse that tries to set up
housekeeping in their snug hive)and disease and the grandaddy of them
all......GM crops producing Frankipollen which has tipped the scale so
far that there is doubt the bees can continue.
Guess what? No bees, no humans or any other life form.
Thank you Monsanto.
Janice, getting off my soap box now
posted by Chaddo at 11:52 AM
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