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A Round-Up of recent news on Monsanto.... just sharing some of what I've been reading.

If you've never heard of Monsanto, or don't know much about them, here's a great place to start:
The World According to Monsanto:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6262083407501596844&hl=en

Monsanto 2009 'Peak' Year: Feb 10th 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/BROKER/idUSN1026729420090210

Posiliac cow hormone sold to Eli Lilly August 2008:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/aug/21/business/chi-thu-monsanto-posi...

Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs They Are Doing 'Rural Cleansing'
http://www.opednews.com/articles/MONSANTO-investigator-in-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-...

The Multiple Ways Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach
http://survivingthemiddleclasscrash.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-multiple-way...
(includes links to Monsanto seed laws, which they call the "brainchild of Vilsack")

Where the laws have been passed (map)
http://www.environmentalcommons.org/image/seed-preemption-map.jpg

More on Vilsack:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-politically-correct-Vi-by-Linn-Cohen-Col...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/us/politics/17appoint.html
http://PamelaDrew.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/17/2222546-obama-kills-hope-for-...
Six Reasons Why Obama Appointing Monsanto's Buddy, Former Iowa Governor Vilsack, for USDA Head Would be a Terrible Idea
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15573.cfm
Obama sold out. Vilsack is pro-biotech AND anti-democratic
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/18/203949/10/471/674819

He's even got a myspace, the muppet:
http://www.myspace.com/vilsack

French Food Agency Says GM Corn From Monsanto Safe: February 12, 2009: 09:24 AM ET
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200902120924DOWJONESDJONL...

Fallow land/GAEC 12
http://www.monsanto-ag.co.uk/content.output/149/149/Roundup/Stewardship%20Sch...
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/04/01115039/110

Management of Species Rich Grassland (Rural Priorities)
Any land which remains non-cropped but is not in environmental or other schemes is classed as 'Land not in agricultural production'.  It must be kept in 'Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition' (GAEC)

Extensive GM contamination of honey
http://www.gmwatch.eu/

OLDER LINKS:
Vanity Fair Article 5/5/2008
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=297204

Pamela Drew's breakdown of the Monsanto response to Vanity Fair Article
http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/02/1513638-critiquing-monsantos-...
http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/21/1502582-bad-news-about-pestic...

Soil Association report shows GM crops do not yield more - sometimes less
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/848d689047cb466780256a6b00298...

Monsanto Company patents
The following is a sampling of recent Monsanto Company patent applications, they sure are busy!
http://www.freshpatents.com/Monsanto-Company-cndirm.php

Farmers can save on crop insurance with GMO corn: March 25, 2008
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/20/corninsurance/

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  • Excellent video. Thank you. Do yoou think this is a part of codex alimentarius implimentation?

  • Yes I do... when has big corp ever been a million miles away from big legislative ideas?

  • KATHON, A complexed 2 to 4 % solution of an acid so strong it can never be released in pure form. NALCO Chemical.

    Kathon in pulp and paper is a fumigant and in the agricutlture anything from a Kill all from weeds to eating through your steel toed safety shoes. Nuetralizing it is a bastard we well as a bitch. Sodium or Potasium HypoChlorate. Javex /Clorox to us cillys. In Concintrated strength Cancels out Kathons ability to be used.Strengths of 80% or more is needed.

  • Is that stuff gonna leak its way into our water supply?

  • WHY HAS THIS VIDEO BEEN REMOVED?!?.

    (as if I fucking need to ask, youtube you bought-out piece of shit, shill-bitch.)

  • Try reloading page. YT is a bitch for not working half the time.. but the vid is still there

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  • I live in the heart of the prairie and corn/wheat ag land in the US. For those who are planning to save seed to replant, in Europe, save them now. Here it may be to late. I'm only a gardener &am surrounded by hybrid corn crops, and for two years, my Hopi blue and Cherokee heirloom seed has not produced and ears of corn. I suspect contamination from cross pollination or something worse is going on. Also of concern is agent green and bio weapons that have crossed fields now. See sunshine project.

  • Thank You so much! Very good links and video!

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  • I am way behind the times it seems.

  • @aztiff Oh heavens I wish!!!! Each and every one of them!

  • ,,,,revitalize soil with crushed/ground river rock[ even gravel dust] will give plants the the minerals they need to grow well.

  • @TheSpartacat monsanto is Jesuit.

  • Another video you might find interesting. It's a documentary that sheds some more light to the whole monsanto story.

    Go on Hulu . com and look for the Documentary "The Future of Food"

    If you get the chance watch Food Inc. too

  • Can't a Monsanto investigator on your farm be shot down like a trespasser or a feral dog? It's righteous and no loss to humankind.

  • Why do we have to feed the world? People used to feed themselves just fine, so why do we need a corporation to feed us now, and with out them we cannot eat, thats wrong and thats not the way, give people back the land the corporations stole and we can feed ourselves, and by extension feed the world!!!

  • i think your a bit confuddled with your agric terminology! interesting video though. How do you suggest feeding the world without GM? as far as i can see GM is the answer and it is better than conventional plant breeding techniques. Also i think that if Gregory Mendel had discovered genetic engineering at his time instead of the crossing of pea veriaties then the technique would be accepted and people like yourself would be eating GM food.

  • Wisdom, on display here, lets all go back to the past and plant "open pollinated corn", I bet most if not all of you do not even know what that is. Then watch the starving numbers rise and the price of food.

  • The free market cannot sustain itself if government subsidized monopolies are functioning within the free system. It becomes a totalitarian capitalist system. The farmers have no choice. Either purchase seed from monsanto or go out of business or risk the chance of being sued for a number of reasons. That is occurring now. Granted this bitch is crazy and boring me.

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