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Monsanto is Evil (as usual)

At the turn of the millennium, Indian farmers – enabled access to a wider range of products after India's market liberalisation – started buying genetically modified "Bollgard Bt cotton" seeds from the Gates Foundation-backed Monsanto corporation. The seeds were able to resist and kill the common American Bollworm cotton pest, making them an instant hit, with 85 percent of cotton grown in India being Monsanto-controlled Bt cotton by 2009.

However, the seeds were expensive, and spiralling prices (coupled with planting restrictions from the multinationals selling the seeds) led to farmers approaching money-lenders for hefty loans that eventually turned into unmanageable debt. Almost 300,000 cotton workers have committed suicide to date, some of them by drinking the same insecticides they were sold by multinationals.

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If you read That Hideous Strength, you will find Monsanto described. Unfortunately for us all, they are not alone in busily destroying all that is natural and organic.

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Ellen McCormick Martens : 07 March, 2013 17:09

http://www.monsantowatch.org/index.php?page=none

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Ellen McCormick Martens : 07 March, 2013 17:10

I hate that Monsanto thinks that they own all seeds for all time for all the genetically modified seeds ever produced from all the genetically modified crops. Talk about a retirement plan!

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karan : 07 March, 2013 19:13

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