“Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic gene into a plant cell is not “creating” or “inventing” a plant. These are seeds of deception — the deception that Monsanto is the creator of seeds and life; the deception that while Monsanto sues farmers and traps them in debt, it pretends to be working for farmers’ welfare, and the deception that GMOs feed the world. GMOs are failing to control pests and weeds, and have instead led to the emergence of superpests and superweeds.”
… from the Global Research article The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming
“Monsanto works with farmers from around the world to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. Our technologies enable farmers to get more from every acre of farmland.
Specifically, we are working to double yields in our core crops by 2030. These yield gains will come from a combination of advanced plant breeding, biotechnology, and improved farm-management practices.”
… from the Monsanto website Our Commitment to Sustainable Agriculture
“In the nearly 20 years of applied use of G.E. in agriculture there have been two notable ‘successes,’ along with a few less notable ones. These are crops resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (Monsanto develops both the seeds and the herbicide to which they’re resistant) and crops that contain their own insecticide. The first have already failed, as so-called superweeds have developed resistance to Roundup, and the second are showing signs of failing, as insects are able to develop resistance to the inserted Bt toxin — originally a bacterial toxin — faster than new crop variations can be generated.”
… from the NYT as quoted in Prison Planet’s Even the NY Times is now rejecting Monsanto GMO science
BFP thanks Green Monkey for suggesting this article
Barbados Free Press 
Can we stop it even if we want to?
I hope I am wrong of course, but right now it’s looking increasing unlikely – seeing as how Monsanto can get even the President of the United States of America to ignore his pre-election promises, and act as their “Joe Boy” and facilitator as their attempts to control the world’s seed supply rolls on.
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More info at the article excerpted below:
The headline is one of the old “when did you stop beating your wife” loaded questions.
You are tying together Monsanto and monopoly as a given.
If a farmer wants to buy Monsanto crops should they not be allowed to do so? Is there a ban on GM crops in Barbados?
Anti-globalization activists have long warned that if the globalization trends continue as is we we will see that increasingly we are being ruled by profit seeking, multinational corporations who will have the power to ensure legislation is passed for their own benefit and to lock in place their own corporate profits. This will naturally leave the well being and interests of mere flesh and blood, oxygen breathing, mortal people (as opposed to the self same corporations who claim that billion dollar corporations are just people too) to be cast by the wayside if such interests are deemed to interfere with corporate-people’s profits.
Hence we have such things as the Monsanto Protection Act being signed into law by that “man of the (corporate) people” President Obama.
Obama sucks!
You’ll see.
St. George’s Dragon wrote:
“You are tying together Monsanto and monopoly as a given.
If a farmer wants to buy Monsanto crops should they not be allowed to do so? Is there a ban on GM crops in Barbados?”</i.
If just sit on our asses and watch the continuing trend of Monsanto and its corporate partners buying up seed companies and then taking competing, non-GM seeds off the market, in effect Monsanto will have a monopoly, or at best be part of a tight little group of corporate, GM seed pushing oligopolists. And access by farmers to non GM seeds will be severely limited if available for purchase at all.
So then the question will become, "Is there a ban on NON-GM crops?" And the answer will be "Yes, in effect there is. There may be no official ban on growing non-GM products, but thanks to Monsanto's (and a few corporate partners') control of the seed supply, the farmers will have no practical alternative but to plant Monsanto's superweed and glyphosate in your gut producing GM crap, whether they want an alternative or not. Read the article linked below which explains how Monsanto cornered the USDA into letting them take over the sugar beet industry with Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beets.
@ St. George dragon. Gmo seeds are not allowed in europe so they should be allowed in Barbados either.
Again – is there a ban on GMO crops in Barbados?
SGD (Still doesn’t get it.):
Again – is there a ban on GMO crops in Barbados?
Again, the issue is not whether there is a ban on GMO crops, but whether humanity will sit back and allow just a few, colluding, corporate entities, with Monsanto at the head, to consolidate a monopolistic control over the world’s seed supplies, This is especially worrying since we see Monsanto taking over/buying out more and more formerly independent seed companies and using their increasing power over the seed distributors to limit farmers’ access to what were the cheaper, non-patentable and non GMO types of seeds, i.e. the seeds which would be in competition to their own expensive, patentable, GMO varieties. The loss of traditional seeds will also entail a loss of genetic diversity which is a fundamental part of nature’s defense mechanism against plant diseases as the more genetic diversity that exists in any plant species, the easier it is to find strains or varieties which are resistant to a disease and therefore the less potential exists for a widespread crop failure when an unexpected plant disease strikes.
The most important thing is for food to be clearly labelled so that consumers can decide whether they want to use the product or not. I must be able to choose between GM or not.
Monsanto seeds are bad because we are told that Monsanto seeds are bad.
CCC, I’d advise you to think before you type…Anymore explanation would be a waste of my time.
@Greenmonkey
You ought to have realized by now that campaign promises
are political rhetoric designed to persuade the electorate.How long have you been watching/ listening to politics in America?
I am yet to be persuaded that Monsanto seeds are bad.
That’s it! Time to bring out the pitchforks and torches! Actually I cannot comment on this issue because I do not have enough knowledge of it but I should as I A. like to eat, ALOT and B. like a free market and C. dislike monopolies. I have seen this issue raised on facebook always by what I take as my more tree hugging, liberal, granola friends. But this has now sparked my interest and I will have to look into it more.
” I have seen this issue raised on facebook always by what I take as my more tree hugging, liberal, granola friends.”
Every time Monsanto is mentioned it is like dangling a red cloth to a Spanish Bull as far as some people are concerned.. So it is like they want all of us to just accept what they say about Monsanto without question.
Anyone willing to sit back and meekly accept Monsanto’s continuing efforts to consolidate its control over more and more of the world’s seeds (and hence the world’s food supply), should at least be aware of Monsanto’s corporate history. The term ethically-challenged comes to mind.
Monsanto: a history
Following the Second World War, Monsanto championed the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture. Its major agrochemical products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, Lasso and Agent Orange, which was widely used as a defoliant by the U.S. Government during the Vietnam War and which was later shown to be highly carcinogenic. The Agent Orange produced by Monsanto had dioxin levels many times higher than that produced by Dow Chemicals, the other major supplier of Agent Orange to Vietnam. This made Monsanto the key defendant in the lawsuit brought by Vietnam War veterans in the United States, who faced an array of debilitating symptoms attributable to Agent Orange exposure. Internal Monsanto memos show that Monsanto knew of the problems of dioxin contamination of Agent Orange when it sold it to the U.S. government for use in Vietnam.
Agent Orange contaminated more than 3 million civilians and servicemen, and an estimated 500,000 Vietnamese children have been born with deformities attributed to Agent Orange, leading to calls for Monsanto to be prosecuted for war crimes. No compensation has been paid to Vietnamese civilians and though some compensation was paid to U.S. veterans, according to William Sanjour, who led the Toxic Waste Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “thousands of veterans were disallowed benefits” because “Monsanto studies showed that dioxin [as found in Agent Orange] was not a human carcinogen.” An EPA colleague discovered that Monsanto had apparently falsified the data in their studies. Sanjour says, “If [the studies] were done correctly, they would have reached just the opposite result.”
The success of the herbicide Lasso had turned around Monsanto’s struggling Agriculture Division, and by the time Agent Orange was banned in the U.S. and Lasso was facing increasing criticism, Monsanto had developed the weedkiller “Roundup” (active ingredient: glyphosate) as a replacement. Launched in 1976, Roundup helped make Monsanto the world’s largest producer of herbicides.
The success of Roundup coincided with the recognition by Monsanto executives that they needed to radically transform a company increasingly under threat. According to a recent paper by Dominic Glover, “Monsanto had acquired a particularly unenviable reputation in this regard, as a major producer of both dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) – both persistent environmental pollutants posing serious risks to the environment and human health. Law suits and environmental clean-up costs began to cut into Monsanto’s bottom line, but more seriously there was a real fear that a serious lapse could potentially bankrupt the company.”
Such a fear was not misplaced. By the 1980s Monsanto was being hit by a series of lawsuits. It was one of the companies named in 1987 in an $180 million settlement for Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange. In 1991 Monsanto was fined $1.2 million for trying to conceal the discharge of contaminated waste water. In 1995 Monsanto was ordered to pay $41.1 million to a waste management company in Texas due to concerns over hazardous waste dumping. That same year Monsanto was ranked fifth among U.S. corporations in EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory, having discharged 37 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air, land, water and underground. In 1997 The Seattle Times reported that Monsanto sold 6,000 tons of contaminated waste to Idaho fertilizer companies, which contained the carcinogenic heavy metal cadmium.
Continued here:
http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-firms-mobile/10595-monsanto-a-history
Again – is there a ban on GMO crops in Barbados?
In the Youtube video below two reporters for a Fox News station in Florida find out the hard way the power of Monsanto to kill a news story which will alert the public to health hazards associated with a new Monsanto product. They also find out the hard way that there is no law broken if a news broadcaster, airing its news programs over the public’s airwaves, knowingly orders its reporting staff to lie to its audience in a news report or documentary.
Monsanto has a right to protect its interests.
Previously (May 2nd) I posted the following comment:
Again, the issue is not whether there is a ban on GMO crops, but whether humanity will sit back and allow just a few, colluding, corporate entities, with Monsanto at the head, to consolidate a monopolistic control over the world’s seed supplies, This is especially worrying since we see Monsanto taking over/buying out more and more formerly independent seed companies and using their increasing power over the seed distributors to limit farmers’ access to what were the cheaper, non-patentable and non GMO types of seeds, i.e. the seeds which would be in competition to their own expensive, patentable, GMO varieties. The loss of traditional seeds will also entail a loss of genetic diversity which is a fundamental part of nature’s defense mechanism against plant diseases as the more genetic diversity that exists in any plant species, the easier it is to find strains or varieties which are resistant to a disease and therefore the less potential exists for a widespread crop failure when an unexpected plant disease strikes.
Regarding the importance of maintaining genetic diversity, especially in our staple food crops, see this video from the Real News Network which quite concisely explains why genetic diversity and an open access by farmers to multiple strains of our crop seeds is essential for maintaining the viability of human life on the planet Earth.
To Carson C. Cadogan and St George’s Dragon coz the de two ah wunna dont seem to understand. Monsanto patents seeds. Monsanto patents DNA the building blocks of life given to all freely. soon we shall see them tax air, we already payin for water. Their mutant organisms contaminate natural seeds. When these natural seeds are contaminated with the tampered dna of monsanto’s frankenstiens they can now sue me and you or a farmer for copyright theft if we plant seeds with their patented DNA without their permission, even thought they contaminated your plants through polinization with the tamperd DNA. The law in america cant do nothing bout this coz pollination is an act of nature and not monsanto’s fault. But they don’t realise this is a clever act of terrorism, right here monsanto is using nature as a vector in biological warfare.
These plants monsanto creates are found to be lacking in nutrition compared to a natural plant. They require a peculiarly large amount of monsanto’s “round up” to kill weeds or have a pesticide built into the plant’s DNA. Imagine a pesticide built into a plant, sounds lovely eh, tell me what is so wrong with that. You’re just eating pesticides is all, and then we wonder where all these gastrointestinal problems are comming from, these built in pesticide are killing our guts natural enzymes. Another thing about monsanto’s “miracle” seeds are they are programmed to only produce one crop, using “terminator” technology. They go inside the DNA and turn off the future plant’s ability to reproduce. This is so the farmer must come back to monsanto for fresh seeds every planting season.
All of this stinks of the nastiest form of monoply in human history, put a chokehold on the food industry, he who controls the seeds.
To recap above’s paragraph, plants offer less in nutrition, must use large amounts of monsanto’s own pesticides, some built into the plant’s DNA, killing your guts natural enzymes and you. Terminator technology so plants dont produce seeds and farmer must come back to monsanto. Their frankenstien plants can contaminate natural plants with their DNA
altering the natural genepool with god know what. They can then sue you for planting without permission their patented, copyrighted organisms. Niether you Carson C. Cadogan and St George’s Dragon.
Wunnah really think business and the goverments they own really give a damn about anybody anymore and they obviously dont give a damn about children either cuz this will affect future generations coz their children will be safe. Remember that seed vault (then again what am I saying, wunnah don’t live pun Earth, wunnah live in buhbadus), The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. That’s where they get their food from 100% natural. Thats them protecting them @$$es. These too, read and weep.
From Rolling Stone Magazine-
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620
How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510
Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
The capitalism pigeons have finally come home to roost!
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Some more background info on Monsanto’s POSILAC product (i.e. a genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone, AKA rBGH or rBST, sold to dairy farmers to increase milk production in dairy cows) and the controversy surrounding its health implications. Also see the video above labelled “THE CORPORATION”
(NB Some years ago Monsanto sold off the rights to POSILAC to the Eli Lily Company and no longer deals in the product itself.)
Hello BFP, I have a post still held for moderation timestamped May 5 2013, 1:58am. Could you release it please, and then read and compare that post to this (below) – the more things change etc. etc
Much of Monsanto’s patented, GM seed was created to allow crops to withstand doses of Monsanto’s glyphosate based Roundup herbicide which would easily kill similar non-GM crops, so it is hardly surprising that Monsanto actively works with other like minded corporations to fight tooth and nail to ensure that labeling laws in the US are not passed which would clearly identify food items containing GM products to consumers.
Monsanto by its actions shows it does not believe that consumers should have the right to chose whether or not they should accept their bland assurances that their GM products are perfectly safe and good for the environment without first seeing those products undergo thorough, independent testing by scientists not beholden to Monsanto for paycheques or research grants etc..
Also bear in mind that in the US and other countries agencies like the FDA etc that are supposed to regulate the introduction of GM crops do NOT DO THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH OR SAFETY VERIFICATION. Instead they just rely on whatever Monsanto shovels their way by way of supposedly scientific studies conducted by Monsanto affiliated scientists to support releasing a new GM product into the environment and into consumers’ bellies.
“Trust us, says Monsanto, Would we lie to you?” Well you can read the earlier post above detailing some highlights of Monsanto’s corporate history and draw your own conclusion.
Hello BFP, this is my 2nd request that my post on this thread timestamped May 5, 2013 @1:58 am be released from moderation. Thanks.
In the meantime here’s some news about a former research scientist for Agriculture Canada, Dr Thierry Vrain, whose job description when he worked for the Canadian government included defending the safety of GM crops to the public. He says over the last 10 years he has come to have serious reservations that he had been doing the right thing in defending the safety of GMOs in the course of his employment.
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food.
I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my institute to address public groups and reassure them that genetically engineered crops and foods were safe. There is, however, a growing body of scientific research – done mostly in Europe, Russia, and other countries – showing that diets containing engineered corn or soya cause serious health problems in laboratory mice and rats.
I don’t know if I was passionate about it but I was knowledgeable. I defended the side of technological advance, of science and progress.
I have in the last 10 years changed my position. I started paying attention to the flow of published studies coming from Europe, some from prestigious labs and published in prestigious scientific journals, that questioned the impact and safety of engineered food.
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One argument I hear repeatedly is that nobody has been sick or died after a meal (or a trillion meals since 1996) of GM food. Nobody gets ill from smoking a pack of cigarette either. But it sure adds up, and we did not know that in the 1950s before we started our wave of epidemics of cancer. Except this time it is not about a bit of smoke, it’s the whole food system that is of concern. The corporate interest must be subordinated to the public interest, and the policy of substantial equivalence must be scrapped as it is clearly untrue. (My emphasis /GM)
More at:
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/06/former-pro-gmo-scientist-speaks-out-on-the-real-dangers-of-genetically-engineered-food/
Hi David, so will Barbadians join the world-wide ‘March Against Monsanto’ on May 25th, 2013? Check out the posts above for details. Also, check out Jeffery Smith’s website http://www.responsibletechnology.org A true cursador whos’ been up against monsanto from day one. His website is the most comprehensive on GMO”S, simply a wealth of information. His newest documentary, ‘Genetic Roulette’ is OUTSTANDING!!! It’s in everyone’s best interest to watch it
as he explains the W5’s of GMO’s and all of it’s dangers. Backs it all with scientific proof. If you want to protect your health, the health of your families and the health of all living things, this is the film! Lorraine
Congratulations to Peru for standing up to Monsanto and the biotech lobby. (And no doubt the US diplomatic service which acts as Monsanto’s hired guns when it comes to arm twisting reluctant countries into accepting Monsanto’s inadequately tested, high priced, patented GM seed products to the detriment of traditional or native strains of seeds, often seeds which were developed over thousands of years to adapt to local growing conditions).
Another video documentary Seeds of Freedom
The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost. It’s time to change the story.
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system.The film highlights the extent to which the industrial agricultural system, and genetically modified (GM) seeds in particular, has impacted on the enormous agro -biodiversity evolved by farmers and communities around the world, since the beginning of agriculture.
Seeds of Freedom seeks to challenge the mantra that large-scale, industrial agriculture is the only means by which we can feed the world, promoted by the pro-GM lobby. In tracking the story of seed it becomes clear how corporate agenda has driven the take over of seed in order to make vast profit and control of the food global system.
Watch it online here (30 min);
http://www.seedsoffreedom.info/watch-the-film/watch-the-film-english/
Barbados does have restrictions againts the importation of GM seeds. All seed products must be accopanied by a previously approved licence.
White Slavery and Servitude in Barbados
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Between the years of 1652 to 1659 it is estimated that well over 50,000 men, women, and children of Irish descent were forcibly transported to British imperial colonies in Barbados and Virginia to serve as slave labor on plantations.
Other prisoners of war, as well as political dissenters, taken from conquered regions of England, Wales, and Scotland were also sent into permanent exile as slaves to Barbados. This essentially enabled Cromwell to purge the subject population of any perceived opposing elements, as well as to provide a lucrative source of profit through their sale to plantation owners. The extent to which White prisoners were transported to Barbados was so great, that by 1701, out of the roughly 25,000 slaves present on the island’s plantations, about 21,700 of them were of European descent. Later, as the African slave trade began to expand and flourish, the Irish slave population of Barbados began to drastically recede over time, due in part to the fact that many were worked to death early on in their arrival and also as a result of racial intermixing with Black slaves.
In stark contrast to the small number of White indentured servants present on Barbados, who could at least theoretically look forward to eventual freedom no matter how bad their temporary bondage may have been, White slaves possessed no such hope. Indeed, they were treated the same as slaves of African descent in every manner imaginable. Irish slaves in Barbados were regarded as property to be bought, sold, treated and mistreated in any way the slave-owner saw fit. Their children were born into hereditary slavery for life as well. Punitive violence, such as whippings, was liberally employed against Irish slaves, and was often used on them immediately upon their arrival in the colonies to brutally reinforce their enchained status, and as a warning against future disobedience. The dehumanizing and degrading cattle-like physical inspections used to assess and showcase the “qualities” of each captive for prospective buyers, which reached infamy with the Black slave markets, was also practiced upon both White slaves and indentured servants in the colonies of the West Indies and North America. Irish slaves were marked off from their free White kinsmen through a branding of the owner’s initials applied to the forearm for women and on the buttocks for men by a red-hot iron. Irish women, in particular were seen as a desirable commodity by White slave owners who purchased them as sexual concubines. Others found themselves sold off to local brothels. This degrading practice of sex slavery made Irish men, women and children potential victims to perverse whims of many unsavory buyers.
In reality, White slaves fared no better a fate as unwilling human property than did contemporary captive Africans. At times they were even treated worse then their Black counterparts due to economic considerations. This was especially true throughout most of the 17th century, as White captives were far more inexpensive on the slave market than their African counterparts, and hence were mistreated to a greater extent as they were seen as a conveniently disposable labor force. It was not until later that Black slaves became a cheaper commodity. An account dating back to 1667 grimly described the Irish of Barbados as “poor men, that are just permitted to live,… derided by the Negroes, and branded with the Epithite of white slaves.” A 1695 account written by the island’s governor frankly stated that they labored “in the parching sun without shirt, shoe, or stocking”, and were “domineered over and used like dogs.” It was common knowledge among the Irish of this era that to be deported, or “barbadosed”, to the West Indies meant a life of slavery. In many cases, it was actually common for White slaves in Barbados to be supervised by mulatto or Black overseers, who often treated captive Irish laborers with exceptional cruelty. Indeed:
The mulatto drivers enjoyed using the whip on whites. It gave them a sense of power and was also a protest against their white sires. White women in particular were singled out for punishment in the fields. Sometimes, to satisfy a perverted craving, the mulatto drivers forced the women to strip naked before commencing the flogging and then forced them to continue working all day under the blistering sun. While the women were weeding in the fields in that condition, the drivers often satisfied their lust by taking them from the rear.
Such instances of horrific rape and unwilling sexual union between Irish female slaves and Black slave-drivers, was actually implicitly encouraged by many of their White masters. Mulatto children, who resulted from such unions, both willing and unwilling, were seen by the plantation masters as a potentially unlimited breeding stock of future native-born slave labor, acquired free of charge and without the costs of transportation. Existing public records on Barbados reveal that some planters went as far as to systematize this process of miscegenation through the establishment of special “stud farms” for the specific purpose of breeding mixed-race slave children. White female slaves, often as young as 12, were used as “breeders” to be forcibly mated with Black men.
The enchained Irish of Barbados played a pivotal role as the instigators and leaders of various slave revolts on the island, which was an ever-present threat faced by the planter aristocracy. Such an uprising occurred in November 1655, when a group of Irish slaves and servants escaped along with several Blacks, and proceeded to attempt to spark a general rebellion among the enchained community against their masters. This was a serious enough threat to justify the deployment of militia, which eventually overcame them in a pitched battle. Before their demise they had wreaked considerable havoc upon the ruling planter class, having hacked several to pieces in brutal retribution for their bondage. They had not succeeded in their broader strategy of completely laying waste by fire, the sugar fields in which they had been forced to labor for the enrichment of their masters. Those taken prisoner were made examples of, as a grim warning to the rest of their kindred Irish, when they were burned alive and their heads were thereafter displayed on pikes throughout the market place.
As a result of a steep increase in Black slave labor migration to Barbados, compounded with high rates of Irish mortality and racial intermixing, White slaves, which had once constituted the majority of the population in 1629, were reduced to an increasingly dwindling minority by 1786. In the present era, there remains only a minuscule, yet significant community within the native Barbadian population comprised of the descendants of Scots-Irish slaves, who continue to bear testimony to the tragic legacy of their enchained Celtic forebears. This small minority within the predominantly Black island of Barbados is known locally as the “Red Legs” , which was originally a derogatory name, understood in similar context to the slur “redneck”, and was derived from the sun-burnt skin experienced by early White slaves who had been previously unadjusted to the tropical Caribbean climate. To this day, a community numbering approximately 400 still resides in the northeastern part of the island in the parish of St. John, and has vigorously resisted racially mixing with the larger Black population, despite living in abject poverty. Most make their living from subsistence farming and fishing, and indeed they are one of the most impoverished groups living in modern Barbados.
just a reminder.1!!!!!!!!!!
Barbadians please do not allow Monsanto GM seeds to enter the island. It will be the hugest mistake – health wise – you make as a nation.
For many years, America has been the guinea pig for this company and we have the highest increase rate of cancers, autism, life-threatening food allergies and other diseases since the crops have been on the market. We can’t do anything about it because our government is in bed with the lobbyist and top executives of Monsanto. But you can! Do your research (not the research they provide). European nations are refusing their seeds because they know the outcome.
Stand strong. The health of your children and the future generations of Barbados depends on it.
Free viewing of Jeffery Smith’s most recent documentary “Genetic Roulette” exposing the latest scientific studies and developments of the health dangers of GMO’s.
http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/gmo-food-politics/genetic-roulette.html
also, Jeffery’s website http://www.responsibletechnology.org/