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ISIS Press Release 30/05/08

Science in Society #38 Summer 2008

Letters to the Editor

Deadly gift from Monsanto to India

To follow up on your articles, Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India (SiS 27) and Message from Andra Predesh: Return to organic cotton & avoid the Bt cotton trap (SiS 29), I enclose photographs of mealy bugs infested cotton plants in the demonstration plots of different seed companies in Vidarbha: Ganga Kavari, Paras Bbhrahma, and Banny. All of the plots have the Bollgard label. These mealy bugs have never been in our region on any plants before Bt cotton was introduced. I learned about the devastation of cotton in China two years ago. This alerted me to photograph and video the demonstration plots regularly. So, anybody can say with confidence now that the mealy bug has entered Vidarbha cotton fields through the Bt cottonseed.

Now when the cotton plants have died, the mealy bug is shifting to nearby plants. By mid June, farmers will go for the new cotton crop or plant another crop. But before that, the bug will have multiplied like any thing. It has shifted to Congress weed nearby, and many other weeds and plants in gardens.

At the same time I am studying the sudden death of plants. The new generation cotton seeds, called ‘Research Hybrid seeds’; are all male sterile. In short, they are terminator seeds; and proven by the high-level government committee in1993. I have the report of it. The breeder then published an article advising farmers that they should not use the F2 seeds of such hybrids, as the plants coming out of them are
100 percent sterile. Your article, Killing Fields Near You (ISIS News7/8) confirmed this for me.

I am an organic farmer residing at Yavatmal in the state of Maharashtra. Our organisation, Vidarbha Organic Farmers Association, has been propagating organic farming since 1994. We have been helped a lot by Dr Vandana Shiva. She was the first person to tell us about about terminators. Right now, we are working for her organisation Navdanya.

Ram Kalaspurkar, organic farmer, Vidarbha Organic Farmers Association, Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India

Read the rest of the letters and see the photographs here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS38lettersToTheEditor.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bt+Cotton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terminator

ISIS Press Release 29/05/08

Julian Rose exposes the scandal of EU’s deliberate policy to get rid of family farms for the benefit of the corporations and gives a personal account of his battle with the GMO dragon that threatens to devastate rural Poland

Poland’s peasant farmers are the true trustees of its countryside

Poland is accustomed to fighting rearguard actions to throw off unwelcome invaders. Throughout the 19th century period of “The Partitians” - occupation by Russia and then Austria – the Poles kept in their hearts a longing for a day when they could be freed from the yoke of repression and find genuine independence. After finally succeeding in 1918 to rid themselves of the invaders, they were soon engulfed in conflict again, this time with the invading Nazi Germany. They responded with the 1939-45 resistance movement that sprouted up in the fields, small towns and main cities.

As many will know, the Poles fought alongside the British throughout the Second World War - a time when Poland’s government in exile had its head quarters in London. I remember quite well when I was a boy a Polish exile who lived in our village (Whitchurch-on-Thames) coming regularly to my family home and diligently cleaning the chimneys. He spoke little, but did a very thorough job.

It was only in 1989 that Poland finally threw off the last repressive regime of occupation in their land, the Russian communists. So, the last nineteen years of freedom have been been the longest historical period of non-occupation in a very long time.

The Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann, who fled Nazi Germany before World War Two, was reported to have remarked just before his death in 1969 that although the Nazis had been defeated, he feared that fascism had not: “I am concerned about the weak position of freedom in post world war Europe and North America,” he said.

We can surely identify with his concern. ‘The weak position of freedom’ is evident throughout our increasingly pacified Orwellian society, and has recently come to undermine the long standing traditions of the Polish countryside, particularly the independence of the peasant and family farms, and the huge biodiversity of the Polish countryside of which they are the prime trustees.

The communists failed to quell the small Polish peasant farmers into submission during their period of occupation, which left the Country with a rich, if rather confusing, legacy of approximately one and a half million small scale family farms (average size 18 acres) dotted around the Polish Provinces, but particularly prevalent in the south and east.

Read the rest of this article here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/savePolishCountryside.php

Biotech companies seek hundreds of patents for genetically modified "climate-ready" seeds.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1575



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biotech+companies
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

http://tinyurl.com/49gke5

Percy Schmeiszer
http://www.umweltbund.de/deutsch/gentechnik.html
http://www.wdr.de/wdrlive/radio.phtml?channel=wdr5

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Wir möchten Sie auf den TV Film "Monsanto, mit Gift und Genen" aufmerksam machen.

Der Dokumentarfilm erkundet das Reich des US-amerikanischen Konzerns "Monsanto Chemical Works", dem weltweiten Marktführer für Biotechnologie. Dem Engagement auf diesem Gebiet verdankt "Monsanto" auch, dass es zum umstrittensten Unternehmen des modernen Industriezeitalters wurde, stellte es doch das im Vietnamkrieg zu trauriger Berühmtheit gelangte Herbizid "Agent Orange" her. Heute sind 90 Prozent der angebauten gentechnisch veränderten Organismen "Monsanto"-Patente. Diesen Umstand halten viele für bedenklich.

ARTE Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010 um 22.40 Uhr Wiederholungen: 09.01.2010 um 09:55 und 22.01.2010 um 10:00

Einige weitere TV Tipps für die nächsten Tage " Wildes Indonesien", "Kluge Pflanzen" und "Vietnams vermintes Paradies" finden sich auf unserer Webseite unter Termine:

http://www.regenwald.org/termine.php

Und falls Sie Freunde in Finnland haben: Es gibt jetzt auch einen Regenwald Report auf finnisch (Nr. 2 / 2009)

http://www.regenwald.org/news.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Percy+Schmeiser

Innerhalb von zwei Jahren will Smith demnach die USA gentechnikfrei machen. Dutzende wissenschaftlich dokumentierte Fälle, die Gesundheitsrisiken durch gentechnisch veränderte Organismen (GVO) belegen.

Mehr unter:

http://www.pressetext.de/pte.mc?pte=080524004 bzw. http://seedsofdeception.com/GMFree/CampaignforHealthierEatinginAmerica


Weitergeleitet durch das Dugi-News-Team am Dienstag, den 27. Mai 2008 mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMOs

The French documentary, called "The world according to Monsanto" and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto_movie080307


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/23/9159/

Family Seed Business Takes On Goliath of Genetic Modification
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/25/9189/


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/eee760b439909faf?hl=en


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GM+food

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/760591/genetically_modified_foo


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=genetically+modified+foods