Argentina Protests Monsanto Toxicity and GMO Plant
Argentina Protests Monsanto Toxicity and GMO Plant
Published 9 January 2016 (3 hours 24 minutes ago)
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Argentina to protest Monsanto following news of an impending eviction at a key resistance camp blocking a huge Monsanto GMO seed plant in the agricultural province of Cordoba.
Protests in Buenos Aires and other major cities on Friday slammed Monsanto over the dangers of widespread use of toxic agrochemicals on large-scale export crops like GMO soy and corn that cover large swathes of agricultural areas, shouting slogans like “Monsanto, get out!”
The protests stood in solidarity with the Monsanto blockade in the Malvinas Argentinas municipality in the province of Cordoba, where a resistance camp has managed to suspend construction of a new Monsanto GMO seed plant.
The camp was recently handed down an eviction notice, prompting the day of action against Monsanto’s project in Malvinas Argentinas and ongoing presence across the country. Activists set up the blockade in 2013, self-organized under the banner of being “in favor of food sovereignty and life.” The camp has successfully blocked the completion of the GMO plant.
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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Argentina-Protests-Monsanto-Toxicity-and-GMO-Plant-20160109-0009.html
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