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marmar

(77,088 posts) Mon Dec 9, 2013, 05:33 PM Dec 2013

Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: "The Monster Is Right on Top of Us"

Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: "The Monster Is Right on Top of Us"

Monday, 09 December 2013 13:41
By Fabiana Frayssinet, Inter Press Service | Report

The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina’s central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the weed-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.

The creator of glyphosate, whose trademark is Roundup, and one of the world’s leading producers of genetically modified seeds, Monsanto is building one of its biggest plants to process transgenic corn seed in Malvinas Argentinas, this poor community of 15,000 people 17 km east of the capital of the province of Córdoba.

The plant was to begin operating in March 2014. But construction work was brought to a halt in October by protests and legal action by local residents, who have been blocking the entrance to the site since Sept. 18.

On the morning of Saturday Nov. 30, troops arrived at the plant, as seen in this video posted on Facebook, and escorted several trucks out of the construction site. The trucks had forced their way past the roadblock on Thursday Nov. 28, when members of the construction union stormed into the camp set up by local residents, with the aim of breaking the blockade. More than 20 people were injured in the clash. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20526-argentine-protesters-vs-monsanto-the-monster-is-right-on-top-of-us

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Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: "The Monster Is Right on Top of Us" (Original Post) marmar Dec 2013 OP

So monsanto is sending Troops to fight Women, who are sick and whose children are sick Heather MC Dec 2013 #1

K&R Another step down the road. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #2

Monsanto Fuera De Malvinas! countryjake Dec 2013 #3

Heather MC

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1. So monsanto is sending Troops to fight Women, who are sick and whose children are sick

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 06:09 PM

Dec 2013

so frustrating!! the company can't be. they don't care who they hurt. Those residents should have a say in what industries come into their backyard

My Condo Association didn't allow Safeway to remodel an existing store for almost 2 years while they discussed the impact to the neighborhood. These people deserve the same courtesy.

And when this village loses to Monsanto is our country going to welcome them with open arms once their water is polluted and their food is completely contaminated?