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Haiti Farmers Will Burn Monsanto Seeds

Posted by Laurie on August 1, 2010 at 9:38pm in Main Chat

Printed in my local health food co-op newspaper:

Haitian farmers burn out Monsanto

In Haiti, trying to recover from a crippling earthquake, farmers of thePeasant Movement of Papay (MPP) say they'll burn 475 tons of corn andvegetable seeds from Monsanto.  The seeds were donated through a USAIDprogram and are not genetically engineered (GE) but rather are hybridseeds, which do not grow "true" from saved seed and must be bought everyyear for planting.  The MPP says the seeds would make Haiti a slavecolony for Monsanto and says farmers instead need help establishing seedbanks of their own local, organic, Creole seeds. (Organic ConsumersAssociation)
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  • e money August 3, 2010 at 5:25am
    Good for the Haitian farmers. No if only all the other farmers on the planet were to do the same thing.
  • SuperduperCucumberLover!..=) August 2, 2010 at 1:12am
    The thing is what if they burn it al and there arent any other seeds to replace it so they all starve.. I guess we'll see what happens..

    That takes a lot of courage for them to do it though..
  • SunWorshipper (SW) August 2, 2010 at 12:48am
    Good luck to them, but you know what Monsanto did to the farmers in North America in court. Monsanto has the government doing it's bidding...
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