Scientist Warning of Health Hazards of Monsanto's

[mynameis]

Scientist Warning of Health Hazards of Monsanto's Herbicide Receives Threats

According to an article in the Argentine press, after news about the study broke, Dr. Carrasco was the victim of an act of intimidation, when four men arrived at his laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine and acted extremely aggressively.

Two of the men were said to be members of an agrochemical industry body but refused to give their names. The other two claimed to be a lawyer and notary. They apparently interrogated Dr. Carrasco and demanded to see details of the experiments. They left a card Basílico, Andrada & Santurio, attorneys on behalf of Felipe Alejandro Noël.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18944.cfm

[ownoiz]

No suprises there.

It is going to get harder and harder to find food that hasnt had roundup or similar sprayed all over it.

The messiah Obama has obvious links to Monsanto.

I just hope food producers wake the fuck up and find ways around using it on grain crops...i am seeing less and less people using it as weed control on tree orchards and vineyards here at least, steamers and sheep do a much better job. Although grain/soya crops are a more difficult situation.

That crap just builds up in the soil, and never goes away, despite what Monsanto tells us, weeds develop resistance, then require higher doses.

Same goes for some of the fertilisers, like Incitec Pivot in Australia...for some reason they contain, Mercury, Lead and Flouride...

...and that reason is that its a convenient way for corporations to shadily get rid of toxic waste, by letting the sheeple spread it across the land a bit at a time...it reminds me of the prisoners in "the great escape" movie and how they cart the soil out bit at a time from the jail, to avoid detection, when digging the escape tunnel.
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[mrindigo]

This sums up my feelings on Monsanto pretty well. :D

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/farmer3_dees.jpg

[mynameis]

When Cocaine and Monsanto's Roundup Collide, War on Drugs Becomes a Genetically-Modified War on Science
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

...glyphosate is still the top-selling herbicide around the world. And it's not just used to kill weeds, either. The U.S. military sprays glyphosate from airplanes onto drug crops as part of its worldwide anti-narcotic strategy. The best known example of such an effort was named Plan Colombia by the Clinton Administration and persists today.

But punishment is meted out unequally. Because glyphosate is an herbicide and is not specifically targeted to work against drug crops (as is easily deduced by the fact that it's used against cocoa and poppy plants as well as against household weeds in the U.S.), the spray kills legitimate crops, too.

That is, unless you're growing Monsanto's specially-formulated "Roundup Ready" crops. The you can spray nearly unlimited amounts of the stuff, which is what it seems farmers (as well as the U.S. military) are doing.

It seems that the whole operation may have backfired though, at least from the perspective of the governments that are promoting such a strategy. The effort has lead to cocoa growers cutting down national forests -- where such spraying is often against the law -- to produce their illicit crops. But Mother Nature may be rebelling against drug policy as well. Cocoa plants appear to be either evolving on their own (or with the help of cocoa farmers' active selection) -- or they are possibly crossing with Roundup Ready crops already on the ground -- to produce a glyphosate-resistant crop known as Boliviana negra.

One TNI study looked at the political and commercial motives for continuing to spray the chemical on drug crops in South America regardless of findings that the effort is counterproductive at best:

It is true that the United States is behind fumigation, backed by the economic interests of companies such as Monsanto and DynCorp, who share in this lucrative business -– which is one of the reasons it meets with opposition. But it is also true that the disastrous consequences of the current anti-drug policy, of which fumigation is but one component, are a reality that surpasses ideologies, and the nations that suffer its consequences firsthand must find a solution instead of becoming polarised...

Colombia would not fumigate if it weren’t for pressure from the US. It would be implementing other forms of eradication or offering alternative development programmes that provide income to the population.

The group suggested that South American countries band together to refuse U.S. anti-narcotic spraying on environmental and human safety grounds, as has been done in Afghanistan.

In 2004, Joshua Davis had the Boliviana negra plant tested to determine its provenance for Wired Magazine. He concludes that the glyphosate-resistant cocoa plant he found in Colombia was most likely developed in the fields by farmers grafting on chance genetic mutations.

But the resulting article is perhaps most interesting for the taciturn response on all sides of the issue. Davis suggests that South American authorities don't want to talk about the situation because the revelation might cost countries that receive a large amount of U.S. aid to combat drug traffickers. The U.S. government doesn't want cocoa farmers who don't already know to find out about the new strain, because it can still eradicate old strains with glyphosate. And drug growers who do have the new strain certainly don't want the status quo to end, because currently the U.S. government is doing their weeding for free.

But on the larger cost-benefit analysis, the biggest winner is Monsanto. The more Roundup Ready crops there are out there, the more Roundup farmers need to get rid of the weeds, as is evidenced by the GRAIN research in Argentina. The real foe of Monsanto is not drug cartels or government entities. It's scientists.

When you put together the studies referenced above, which show that spraying glyphosate is harmful to humans and the environment and that it does not hamper the production of cocoa or weeds, the answer to almost everyone's problems is eliminating Monsanto.

So while there's no solid proof that the men threatening Andrés Carrasco belong to the same corporation that falsified lab results on the harm caused by glyphosate or the group that told lies about Roundup, there's no doubt in my mind that they belong in the same sick club.

http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/894

[americana]

Check out my thread, Common Purpose, Pesticides and Biotechnology (http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77243)for another company to watch out for . . .

Speaking of Monsanto, though, I'll say again something I've written on this forum before. Why doesn't Monsanto let farmers use seed taken from their crops? Why do they insist farmers BUY seed every year? Is it just for the money, or is it because GM veggies are so genetically unstable that it wouldn't work? or so genetically unstable that they would cause reactions in people who ate the vegetables?? Hope that makes sense. Ideas?

[ownoiz]

Cocoa plants appear to be either evolving on their own (or with the help of cocoa farmers' active selection) -- or they are possibly crossing with Roundup Ready crops already on the ground -- to produce a glyphosate-resistant crop known as Boliviana negra.


Well there you go...even coca just does what all the other weeds do, and thats develop resistance to Roundup.

LOL at the DEA, and the Rockefellers behind them...back to the drawing board...or maybe they can try and find some weapons of mass destruction in Columbia or something as an excuse to get the western sheeple to agree to a full blown military invasion under false pretences.




Speaking of Monsanto, though, I'll say again something I've written on this forum before. Why doesn't Monsanto let farmers use seed taken from their crops? Why do they insist farmers BUY seed every year? Is it just for the money

Id say yes, to enslave food producers further, seed debt is the same as monetary debt.

See what TPTB want to do is increase the price of all farm inputs, so that the farmer effectively works as a slave, little or no profit. That way there, the corps get to sell more of their crap, be it sprays, fertilisers, seeds and harvesters (John Deere is up there with the florida Barron Colliers and the Rockefellers)...

And the elite corporations still get the end product, so they can continue to make large margins since they control the markets and retail food outlets.

The farmer loses, most of his labour efforts go towards bettering the elites.
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