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Ashton Side Hero Username: Ashton Post Number: 5302 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 66.90.104.94 Rating: N/A |
This is one evil company..It is poisoning our fresh organic food right in front of us.... I read somewhere that if any country refuses to buy seeds from Monsanto, they are blocked from getting any funds from IMF & Worldbank.. | ||
Telugu_tammudu Junior Artist Username: Telugu_tammudu Post Number: 83 Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 71.83.210.111 Rating: N/A |
Its the corporations greed combined with lobbying the govt to change/implement new laws for company profits. Even in America farmers who produce food for all of us are in debt and are forced to buy seeds from Monsanto. Same is being implemented in India in the name of globalization. In future it is all capitalism which takes over the world along with religion. Ignorance is a bliss! | ||
Onlooker Junior Artist Username: Onlooker Post Number: 707 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 72.100.101.163 Rating: N/A |
pochayya tamud how r u netra kurrod alaa seyyakunda vundaalsindi... ee vishayam lo neeku naa poorthi madhathu prakatistunna | ||
Ashton Side Hero Username: Ashton Post Number: 5298 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 66.90.104.94 Rating: N/A |
I have one question.. The article mentions farmer committing suicide & son leaving, taking a labor position in order to pay off the debt, leaving no one to harvest the crop. So,is the property repossessed ? If so, who gets it ? Is it then resold with the same false agreements and FALSE claims of prosperity. | ||
Guttonkay Side Hero Username: Guttonkay Post Number: 5526 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 148.87.67.138 Rating: N/A |
why do farmers have to keep buying BT cotton seeds? why can't they go back to indigenous seed varieties? ento papam. evaru enta edigina raitannalu matram ekkada vunnave gongali, vesina daggare vunna type lives. Shame on our country and us. | ||
Ashton Side Hero Username: Ashton Post Number: 5296 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 66.90.104.94 Rating: N/A |
OK, I know this is old news - still its very important because the devil company Monsanto hasn't stopped its practices. http://www.voltairenet.org/article159305.html "This is a burden their poverty does not allow them t bear. As debts increase — unpayable from farm proceeds — farmers are compelled to sell a kidney or even commit suicide. Seed saving gives farmers life. Seed monopolies rob farmers of life." "The region in India with the highest level of farmers suicides is the Vidharbha region in Maharashtra — 4000 suicides per year, 10 per day. This is also the region with the highest acreage of Monsanto’s GMO Bt cotton. Monsanto’s GM seeds create a suicide economy by transforming seed from a renewable resource to a non-renewable input which must be bought every year at high prices. Cotton seed used to cost Rs 7/kg. Bt-cotton seeds were sold at Rs 17,000/kg. Indigenous cotton varieties can be intercropped with food crops. Bt-cotton can only be grown as a monoculture. Indigenous cotton is rain fed. Bt-cotton needs irrigation. Indigenous varieties are pest resistant. [b]Bt-cotton, even though promoted as resistant to the boll worm, has created new pests, and to control these new pests, farmers are using 13 times more pesticides then they were using prior to introduction of Bt-cotton. And finally, Monsanto sells its GMO seeds on fraudulent claims of yields of 1500/kg/year when farmers harvest 300-400 kg/year on an average. High costs and unreliable output make for a debt trap, and a suicide economy." |