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Indian farmers escalate civil disobedience campaign to sow GMO seeds
The “seed satyagraha” civil disobedience campaign is continuing to snowball in India as numerous farmers hold rallies and protests to sow genetically modified (GM) seeds in open defiance of restrictive laws.
The movement began June 10 with 1,500 farmers attending a rally in Akot, Maharashtra, where herbicide-tolerant (HT) GM cotton seeds were planted openly, despite the threat of a five-year jail term and severe fines.
Since then, at least five similar protests have been held, with more planned this week.
The escalation of the civil disobedience movement means that anti-GMO groups, which are largely funded from European sources, are now in open warfare against India’s poorer farmers as activist leaders call for jailing the protestors.
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Today’s Indian farmers compare modern laws forbidding them from adopting better seeds that can help them improve their livelihoods — enacted due to demands from anti-GMO groups that promote “traditional” seeds and the subsequent continuation of agrarian poverty — with colonial times. They have pledged to resist the continued imposition of these laws.
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https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2019/06/indian-farmers-escalate-civil-disobedience-campaign-sow-gmo-seeds/
The movement began June 10 with 1,500 farmers attending a rally in Akot, Maharashtra, where herbicide-tolerant (HT) GM cotton seeds were planted openly, despite the threat of a five-year jail term and severe fines.
Since then, at least five similar protests have been held, with more planned this week.
The escalation of the civil disobedience movement means that anti-GMO groups, which are largely funded from European sources, are now in open warfare against India’s poorer farmers as activist leaders call for jailing the protestors.
...
Today’s Indian farmers compare modern laws forbidding them from adopting better seeds that can help them improve their livelihoods — enacted due to demands from anti-GMO groups that promote “traditional” seeds and the subsequent continuation of agrarian poverty — with colonial times. They have pledged to resist the continued imposition of these laws.
...
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2019/06/indian-farmers-escalate-civil-disobedience-campaign-sow-gmo-seeds/