I don't care whether you are Democrat or Republican conservative or liberal these are the voices of the independent farmers Americans -- all of us want to get behind you-- SO Glad you are speaking out-- KEEP IT UP! Come the the NORTHEAST I will put you on tour ! Ame icans NEED to hear your voices! Most people do not know these things, if they did they would stampede on your behalf!
i really think that family farmers should be the ones who doo the crops and who make us meat i dont agree with haveing factory farmers. i think that when we have people in like america and who have farms and take good care of their animals and crops should be giving us meat and crops not factories my uncle is a farmer and he would agree with me. i am grad you farmers are fighting for whats right! congradulations!!
Dayhoffarms: I'm a farmer. No one in our area would even consider GM crops. We have all spoken with M's salespeople. There's no way YOU grow GM - you would know certain things - such as you can't grow GM seed one year and then grow non-GM seed the next year. Read the fine print on Monsanto's 12 + page 'agreement'. Oh right, you have never grown it, I forgot. So that would make you a Monsanto implant. What exactly do you farm?
Wonderful to see farmers standing up!! I'm not sure why any farmer would find Monsanto's control and patents a good thing to do: eventually farmers will realize they jeopardize neighbors' non-GM crops; their ability to decide what they do on their own farms; their seed exchanging abilities and the proliferation of a greedy corporation by buying into Monsanto's programs. If farmers refuse to grow it, Monsanto will disappear as fast as it's come in.
I'm impressed. In all of my years living in rural farm communities, it seems it take an awful lot to get farmers to do something like this. They are very independent and very busy people. Kudos to all of you and I stand ready to support you.
To past commenters:
The issue here isn't GMO seeds per se. It's the patenting of living things and the monopoly that Monsanto has and their devious practices.
MONSANTO is dirty how are they being allowed to buy up seeds & own it example green beans now only their seeds they are working on a rape seed plants grows 1 yr but does not reproduce. I saw interviews from farmers who don't even know how soy beans even got on their property they arent growing that .were they set up by monsanto.would not be surprised. Farmers are being sued & scared into NOT saving their seeds cus o now where did that come from soy plants. wether they plant or not sued
Farmers would not buy GMO seed if it did not produce. They are not idiots. They know how to make money most efficiently. Also, why would the concept of GMO seed have ever have been envisioned if not to improve yield?
as good as anyone. The people who seem to complain the most are NON farmers who are so freakin worried about the environment. GMO seeds are better than non. Thats why they were created, and thats why we (yes, I am a farmer) buy them. I know several other farmers who grow both, and the only reason they plant NGMO seed is because contracted buyers want you to grow a percentage so they can sell it in Europe. So, if you are a non farmer and dont know what you are talking about, spare the rest of us.
First off, I would like to know if any of the negative comment posters are farmers, or for that matter, have EVER bought a bag of real ag seed. Probably not. Second...
First off-GMO seeds were introduced to increase yield. If non-GMO's yield better, why would they have spent the money to market and develop them in the first place? As was said earlier, farmers are not idiots. If they bought a seed that was a bad producer, they would not keep buying it! They can see red marks on their budgets just
@dayhofffarms Here is what your missing dayhofffarms: i am not a touchy feely liberal who want my food to "feel good". i just want a fair market for seeds and the ability for farmers to save their own seeds. do you remember about 10 0r 12 years ago when all the farmers were up in arms about seed patents? now we just take it for granted that you have to buy seeds every year. you tell me why we need to do that on a product which is not owned by anyone: corn
bhovey7--since there is virtually no natural cross-pollination in soybean plants, fields of GMO plants get there b/c someone has planted GMO seed, not b/c of the wind. Also, if GMO seed yields less and costs more then don't use it--use non-GMO seed and make more money. But I suspect that the reason people plant GMO seed is b/c they make more money using them rather than non-GMO seed. Farmers are smart people who use products that make them more money and that's why they pay more for GMO seed.
Farmers are the salt of the earth, our children need to grow up on a farm, I did not, but farm life was wholesome, awesome, the best times of all my familes lives, farmers are the future.
Part 2: The bee's disappearance is suspiciously connected to the release of Monsanto's GMO foods. Because of Monsanto's corruptive influence in governments worldwide, scientists who attempt to inform the public about GMO foods and its devastating affect on bees are destroyed financially and they lose their careers as well.
Monsanto uses terminator seed technology.
See my playlist "Monsanto, Genetically Modified Food and Fluoridated Water" to learn more.
Part 1: GMOs are made by manipulation of deadly viruses and bacteria such as Ecoli that have been engineered to be immune antibiotics. Monsanto spends millions to hide the truth.
Their agenda is to own and monopolize all aspects of food on the planet. GMOs are now acting much like the deadly virus and pre-cancer cells they are made from...by infecting other organisms that were once pure and healthy.
Monsanto must be charged for crimes against humanity.
Monsanto's development and marketing of genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone, as well as its aggressive litigation and political lobbying practices have affected agriculture worldwide. Monsanto pig patent applications were published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva. Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but on actual breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result. What are you going to do about it?
See my playlist "Monsanto, Genetically Modified Food and Fluoridated Water" to learn about Monsanto and its business practices.
The Monsanto Company, a United States-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation, is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as "Roundup." Monsanto is also the leading producer of genetically engineered seed, holding 70-100% market share for various crops.
Part 5: ...it was a city that was crying out for water privatization.
People were not allowed to drink the rainwater they collected in their yard because of the privatization of water. See my playlist "Cochabamba Water Revolt and Its Aftermath" to learn more.
Part 4: ...In a 1999 Public Expenditure Review the World Bank stated that no subsidies should be given to ameliorate the increase in water tariffs in Cochabamba. The New Yorker reported on the World Bank's motives, Most of the poorest neighborhoods were not hooked up to the network, so state subsidies to the water utility went mainly to industries and middle-class neighborhoods; the poor paid far more for water of dubious purity from trucks and handcarts. In the World Bank's view,...
Part 3: ...in 2000 the World Bank declared it would not "renew" a $25 million dollar loan to Bolivia unless it privatized its water services. According to Jim Shultz, executive director of The Democracy Center in Cochabamba, the World Bank believed that poor governments are often too plagued by local corruption and too ill equipped to run public water systems efficiently. [and that the use of private corporations] opens the door to needed investment and skilled management." ...
See my playlist "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. Note: economic hitmen work for large corporations and the World Bank.
"Economic hit men, John Perkins writes, are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. John Perkins should know—he was an economic hit man.
His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the US—from Indonesia to Panama—to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to ensure the lucrative projects were contracted to US corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other US-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.
Part 2: ...few foreign investors would do business in the country. The Bolivian government turned to the World Bank as a last refuge against economic meltdown. For the next 20 years, successive governments followed the World Bank's provisions in order to qualify for continued loans from the organization. In order to move towards independent development, Bolivia privatised its railways, telephone system, national airlines, and hydrocarbon industry. According to the magazine "The Ecologist,"...
Part 1: The Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as the "Cochabamba Water Wars," were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, between January and April 2000 because of the privatization of the municipal water supply. The restoration of civilian rule to Bolivia in 1982 ended decades of military dictatorships, but did not bring economic stability. In 1985 with hyperinflation at an annual rate of twenty-five thousand percent...
Family Farmers are the backbone of America who just want to earn a decent living WE want Monsanto OUT period NO more GMO foods and I won't buy KRAFT food???? if you can call that crap food I support local farmers it is time to Send a Message to Monsanto NO MORE GMO foods WE the people have the right to grow what we damn well want! Good Job Farmers Your community stands by YOU I hope Monsanto is crushed!
Bravo farmers! YOUR community is behind you too!!! We want MONSANTO OUT OF OUR FOOD! KRAFT? HA HA HA I wont buy NOTHING from them! They suck their nasty toxic waste GMO!!!
I'm sorry, but toadtws7521 is correct. Many land grant universitys still have public plant breeding programs. The plant breeding programs provide "non" Genetically Modified, or Conventional crops. So farmers do still have a choice as to what they can grow.
With out new and improved varities, how do you plan on feeding the approximate 9-10 billion people in 20-30 years?
MrRuggerful - how do you stop cross polination from the wind? Monsanto sues small farmers for patent theft when the wind cross polinates. Plus, science has shown that Genetically Modified seeds are not improved, they yield less and carry more potential pesticides, because they are pesticide resistant so they can be sprayed with more of these chemicals. The science behind these mutated DNA foods also show their are dire health consequences...sterile animals who eat them, failed organs, etc.
Go to Google videos: Watch "Controlling Our Food" - very informative documentary about Monsanto - I'm with you guys - Monsanto and other AMERICAN corporations are destroying the lives of farmers and people and animals around the world.
Farms are for Farmers -- NOT for Big Corporations.
Monsanto wants to play GOD and own the seeds of the world.
1 company (Monsanto) controls the genetics of 93% of soybeans and 80% of the corn grown in the U.S; 4 companies (Tyson, Cargill, Swift & National Beef Packing Co.) control 85% of the beef packing industry; 4 companies (Smithfield, Tyson, Swift & Cargill) control 66% of the pork packing industry.
Now these companies are spreading their tentacles overseas! They need to be stopped!
YEAH! And forcing you to use their pesticides because they "XYZ Ready"... Why are farmers in America having the rate of breast cancer in which they are? Other illnesses? Let's go back to the way it was before BIG AG!!! You have my support!
clearly toadtws7521 has a financial interest in biotech seeds. in other words, stock in the companies or works for the companies that have claimed to "own" seeds.
the truth is that farmers are being pushed out of business. they shouldn't have to "buy" seeds. they should be able to grow their own crops and collect their own seed after harvest.
ownership of seeds is an issue because Monsanto and 'big Ag' made it an issue! These farmers are not the problem, they are the solution!
No one owns soybeans or any other type seed. If someone doesn't like biotech seed, they can buy regular seed without technology. Why do people want to use biotech seed? Because it works better than regular seed. If its too expensive, don't buy it. Buy regular seed and save some for next year.
@toadtws7521 if you would do a little research you would see that farmers that are using non-gmo seeds are being sued by Monsanto because of drift seeds. And the facts are that organic lands produce more food per acre then biotech and it is more nutritious food too. Without all the chemicals that pollute or land and water.
Try watching the documentary The World according to Monsanto!
I don't care whether you are Democrat or Republican conservative or liberal these are the voices of the independent farmers Americans -- all of us want to get behind you-- SO Glad you are speaking out-- KEEP IT UP! Come the the NORTHEAST I will put you on tour ! Ame icans NEED to hear your voices! Most people do not know these things, if they did they would stampede on your behalf!
xenopusgirl 1 year ago
these guys are the real heros
jfox7733 1 year ago
i really think that family farmers should be the ones who doo the crops and who make us meat i dont agree with haveing factory farmers. i think that when we have people in like america and who have farms and take good care of their animals and crops should be giving us meat and crops not factories my uncle is a farmer and he would agree with me. i am grad you farmers are fighting for whats right! congradulations!!
americangirldoll97 1 year ago
Dayhoffarms: I'm a farmer. No one in our area would even consider GM crops. We have all spoken with M's salespeople. There's no way YOU grow GM - you would know certain things - such as you can't grow GM seed one year and then grow non-GM seed the next year. Read the fine print on Monsanto's 12 + page 'agreement'. Oh right, you have never grown it, I forgot. So that would make you a Monsanto implant. What exactly do you farm?
aprilreeves1 1 year ago
Wonderful to see farmers standing up!! I'm not sure why any farmer would find Monsanto's control and patents a good thing to do: eventually farmers will realize they jeopardize neighbors' non-GM crops; their ability to decide what they do on their own farms; their seed exchanging abilities and the proliferation of a greedy corporation by buying into Monsanto's programs. If farmers refuse to grow it, Monsanto will disappear as fast as it's come in.
aprilreeves1 1 year ago
I'm impressed. In all of my years living in rural farm communities, it seems it take an awful lot to get farmers to do something like this. They are very independent and very busy people. Kudos to all of you and I stand ready to support you.
To past commenters:
The issue here isn't GMO seeds per se. It's the patenting of living things and the monopoly that Monsanto has and their devious practices.
dogsRbest 1 year ago
MONSANTO is dirty how are they being allowed to buy up seeds & own it example green beans now only their seeds they are working on a rape seed plants grows 1 yr but does not reproduce. I saw interviews from farmers who don't even know how soy beans even got on their property they arent growing that .were they set up by monsanto.would not be surprised. Farmers are being sued & scared into NOT saving their seeds cus o now where did that come from soy plants. wether they plant or not sued
The7Moons 1 year ago
thanks for sharing this powerful and moving video of REAL farmers doing the right thing!
oneirishpoet 1 year ago
Farmers would not buy GMO seed if it did not produce. They are not idiots. They know how to make money most efficiently. Also, why would the concept of GMO seed have ever have been envisioned if not to improve yield?
dayhofffarms 2 years ago
as good as anyone. The people who seem to complain the most are NON farmers who are so freakin worried about the environment. GMO seeds are better than non. Thats why they were created, and thats why we (yes, I am a farmer) buy them. I know several other farmers who grow both, and the only reason they plant NGMO seed is because contracted buyers want you to grow a percentage so they can sell it in Europe. So, if you are a non farmer and dont know what you are talking about, spare the rest of us.
dayhofffarms 2 years ago
First off, I would like to know if any of the negative comment posters are farmers, or for that matter, have EVER bought a bag of real ag seed. Probably not. Second...
First off-GMO seeds were introduced to increase yield. If non-GMO's yield better, why would they have spent the money to market and develop them in the first place? As was said earlier, farmers are not idiots. If they bought a seed that was a bad producer, they would not keep buying it! They can see red marks on their budgets just
dayhofffarms 2 years ago
@dayhofffarms Here is what your missing dayhofffarms: i am not a touchy feely liberal who want my food to "feel good". i just want a fair market for seeds and the ability for farmers to save their own seeds. do you remember about 10 0r 12 years ago when all the farmers were up in arms about seed patents? now we just take it for granted that you have to buy seeds every year. you tell me why we need to do that on a product which is not owned by anyone: corn
jfox7733 1 year ago
With no one to protect them
Put this into the youtube search engine.
If you can get to minute 6 WITHOUT crying...
I'll PERSONALLY send you 25.00 with paypal.
Seriously.
Try it.
macholibre77 2 years ago
I was a passenger in a car driving through a South Brazilian city and saw "Monsanto = Evil" spray painted on a wall.
Victord2000 2 years ago 2
Farmers: Check out the fan page "Stop Humanewatch" on Facebook.
Small family farmers are unknowingly fighting the Humane Society on behalf of Cargill and Montsanto....
Pernest63 2 years ago
bhovey7--since there is virtually no natural cross-pollination in soybean plants, fields of GMO plants get there b/c someone has planted GMO seed, not b/c of the wind. Also, if GMO seed yields less and costs more then don't use it--use non-GMO seed and make more money. But I suspect that the reason people plant GMO seed is b/c they make more money using them rather than non-GMO seed. Farmers are smart people who use products that make them more money and that's why they pay more for GMO seed.
toadtws7521 2 years ago
Farmers are the salt of the earth, our children need to grow up on a farm, I did not, but farm life was wholesome, awesome, the best times of all my familes lives, farmers are the future.
badattitude77769 2 years ago
Part 2: The bee's disappearance is suspiciously connected to the release of Monsanto's GMO foods. Because of Monsanto's corruptive influence in governments worldwide, scientists who attempt to inform the public about GMO foods and its devastating affect on bees are destroyed financially and they lose their careers as well.
Monsanto uses terminator seed technology.
See my playlist "Monsanto, Genetically Modified Food and Fluoridated Water" to learn more.
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Part 1: GMOs are made by manipulation of deadly viruses and bacteria such as Ecoli that have been engineered to be immune antibiotics. Monsanto spends millions to hide the truth.
Their agenda is to own and monopolize all aspects of food on the planet. GMOs are now acting much like the deadly virus and pre-cancer cells they are made from...by infecting other organisms that were once pure and healthy.
Monsanto must be charged for crimes against humanity.
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Monsanto's development and marketing of genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone, as well as its aggressive litigation and political lobbying practices have affected agriculture worldwide. Monsanto pig patent applications were published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva. Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but on actual breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result. What are you going to do about it?
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
See my playlist "Monsanto, Genetically Modified Food and Fluoridated Water" to learn about Monsanto and its business practices.
The Monsanto Company, a United States-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation, is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as "Roundup." Monsanto is also the leading producer of genetically engineered seed, holding 70-100% market share for various crops.
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Part 5: ...it was a city that was crying out for water privatization.
People were not allowed to drink the rainwater they collected in their yard because of the privatization of water. See my playlist "Cochabamba Water Revolt and Its Aftermath" to learn more.
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Part 4: ...In a 1999 Public Expenditure Review the World Bank stated that no subsidies should be given to ameliorate the increase in water tariffs in Cochabamba. The New Yorker reported on the World Bank's motives, Most of the poorest neighborhoods were not hooked up to the network, so state subsidies to the water utility went mainly to industries and middle-class neighborhoods; the poor paid far more for water of dubious purity from trucks and handcarts. In the World Bank's view,...
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Part 3: ...in 2000 the World Bank declared it would not "renew" a $25 million dollar loan to Bolivia unless it privatized its water services. According to Jim Shultz, executive director of The Democracy Center in Cochabamba, the World Bank believed that poor governments are often too plagued by local corruption and too ill equipped to run public water systems efficiently. [and that the use of private corporations] opens the door to needed investment and skilled management." ...
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
See my playlist "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. Note: economic hitmen work for large corporations and the World Bank.
"Economic hit men, John Perkins writes, are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. John Perkins should know—he was an economic hit man.
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the US—from Indonesia to Panama—to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to ensure the lucrative projects were contracted to US corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other US-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Part 2: ...few foreign investors would do business in the country. The Bolivian government turned to the World Bank as a last refuge against economic meltdown. For the next 20 years, successive governments followed the World Bank's provisions in order to qualify for continued loans from the organization. In order to move towards independent development, Bolivia privatised its railways, telephone system, national airlines, and hydrocarbon industry. According to the magazine "The Ecologist,"...
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Part 1: The Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as the "Cochabamba Water Wars," were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, between January and April 2000 because of the privatization of the municipal water supply. The restoration of civilian rule to Bolivia in 1982 ended decades of military dictatorships, but did not bring economic stability. In 1985 with hyperinflation at an annual rate of twenty-five thousand percent...
hplaserjet2001 2 years ago
Family Farmers are the backbone of America who just want to earn a decent living WE want Monsanto OUT period NO more GMO foods and I won't buy KRAFT food???? if you can call that crap food I support local farmers it is time to Send a Message to Monsanto NO MORE GMO foods WE the people have the right to grow what we damn well want! Good Job Farmers Your community stands by YOU I hope Monsanto is crushed!
ravenessex 2 years ago
Bravo farmers! YOUR community is behind you too!!! We want MONSANTO OUT OF OUR FOOD! KRAFT? HA HA HA I wont buy NOTHING from them! They suck their nasty toxic waste GMO!!!
lisachimi 2 years ago
In Europe we share the same concerns.
There is a petition you can sign into called
European Food declaration
Towards a healthy, sustainable, fair and mutually supportive Common Agriculture and Food policy
Type europeanfooddeclaration, place the dot and with org.
On the site you can chose your language.
Anders020 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but toadtws7521 is correct. Many land grant universitys still have public plant breeding programs. The plant breeding programs provide "non" Genetically Modified, or Conventional crops. So farmers do still have a choice as to what they can grow.
With out new and improved varities, how do you plan on feeding the approximate 9-10 billion people in 20-30 years?
MrRuggerful 2 years ago
MrRuggerful - how do you stop cross polination from the wind? Monsanto sues small farmers for patent theft when the wind cross polinates. Plus, science has shown that Genetically Modified seeds are not improved, they yield less and carry more potential pesticides, because they are pesticide resistant so they can be sprayed with more of these chemicals. The science behind these mutated DNA foods also show their are dire health consequences...sterile animals who eat them, failed organs, etc.
bhovey7 2 years ago
Since Everyone is being effected by corporations' "War Against Farmers", it is a "War" against Everyone.
apparition2 2 years ago 3
Go to Google videos: Watch "Controlling Our Food" - very informative documentary about Monsanto - I'm with you guys - Monsanto and other AMERICAN corporations are destroying the lives of farmers and people and animals around the world.
beatrickster 2 years ago 6
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beatrickster 2 years ago
Most important statement: "The DOJ has to step up".
Because the USDA certainly wont, they're controlled by Monsanto, Tyson and Big-Ag factory farms.
LeoAsc 2 years ago 2
Amen! Thank you for speaking truth to power!
nommomuntu 2 years ago
Farms are for Farmers -- NOT for Big Corporations.
Monsanto wants to play GOD and own the seeds of the world.
1 company (Monsanto) controls the genetics of 93% of soybeans and 80% of the corn grown in the U.S; 4 companies (Tyson, Cargill, Swift & National Beef Packing Co.) control 85% of the beef packing industry; 4 companies (Smithfield, Tyson, Swift & Cargill) control 66% of the pork packing industry.
Now these companies are spreading their tentacles overseas! They need to be stopped!
Munmun30 2 years ago
YEAH! And forcing you to use their pesticides because they "XYZ Ready"... Why are farmers in America having the rate of breast cancer in which they are? Other illnesses? Let's go back to the way it was before BIG AG!!! You have my support!
Runningbareco 2 years ago
clearly toadtws7521 has a financial interest in biotech seeds. in other words, stock in the companies or works for the companies that have claimed to "own" seeds.
the truth is that farmers are being pushed out of business. they shouldn't have to "buy" seeds. they should be able to grow their own crops and collect their own seed after harvest.
ownership of seeds is an issue because Monsanto and 'big Ag' made it an issue! These farmers are not the problem, they are the solution!
tblane14 2 years ago
To the farmers...stand tall and proud! I am the daughter of a farmer, and I support you 100%!
wildflowerz5402 2 years ago
No one owns soybeans or any other type seed. If someone doesn't like biotech seed, they can buy regular seed without technology. Why do people want to use biotech seed? Because it works better than regular seed. If its too expensive, don't buy it. Buy regular seed and save some for next year.
toadtws7521 2 years ago
@toadtws7521 ignorance is bliss
michaelgirvine 2 years ago
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bhovey7 2 years ago
@toadtws7521 if you would do a little research you would see that farmers that are using non-gmo seeds are being sued by Monsanto because of drift seeds. And the facts are that organic lands produce more food per acre then biotech and it is more nutritious food too. Without all the chemicals that pollute or land and water.
Try watching the documentary The World according to Monsanto!
mainelymia 2 years ago 2
Very powerful evening.
ASuperShe 2 years ago