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(1,648 posts)this needs higher priority by DU and other "truth seekers" due to the stakes of the Game played by Monsanto. They have taken production of crop by crop not only to dominate the seed selling business but introducing very toxic GMO seeds that they use to sue farmers who have some of their "Poison Crop" seeds drop off the truck or blow their pollination into previously non-infected with GMO fields. Yeah, they sue these poor farmers as well as people that use to make a decent living by saving seed. Now they are bringing their super dangerous and failed GMO seed system to the African continent. Gates (yeah, Bill Gates) will front a "micro-loan" to these farmers to buy the seeds and start an endless debt chain until the farmer goes broke and is ruined. Nice, huh? Join us to stop MONSANTO NOW.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)excellent information here...... and What YOU Can Do!!
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/eight-ways-monsanto-fails.html
"Monsanto Company is the dominant player in commercial genetically engineered (GE) crops, the biggest seed company in the world, and...Monsanto has held back the development of sustainable agriculture, and continues to do so, in several ways..."
#1: Promoting Pesticide Resistance
#2: Increasing Herbicide Use
#3: Spreading Gene Contamination
#4: Expanding Monoculture
#5: Marginalizing Alternatives
#6: Lobbying and Advertising
#7: Suppressing Research
#8: Falling Short on Feeding the World
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