FARMYARD TRUTHS AND INDUSTRY LIES

[nosmokes]

Yet we just keep wearing this crap,eating that other shit, planting it,spraying all the extra pesticides and synthetic inputs necessary to make it grow, poisoning the planet, poisoning ourselves. But hey, Monsanto and Syngenta and the rest get richer.
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FARMYARD TRUTHS AND INDUSTRY LIES

Spin doctors are bent upon distorting the Bt cotton facts

AP Coalition in Defence of Diversity
MEDIA RELEASE, July 30 2007

The Genetic Engineering industry has started a huge campaign on the so called success of Bt cotton to bamboozle public opinion in the country. In the wake of a series of setbacks suffered as a consequence of a spate of refusals by the apex regulatory body Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of the Government of India, the biotech industry had to go for an overdrive for its survival. And it has predictably done so.

Against this backdrop, it is essential for us to consider the realities on the ground both in Andhra Pradesh, which is closest to us, as well as the reality in the Global South where Bt cotton has tasted a string of reversals: It has been kicked out of many countries; it has been prevented from entering into others; has been losing in popularity in some others and is making an illegal business in some others.

The film A Disaster in Search of Success: Bt Cotton in Global South, an incredible production by a group of peasant women from the Community Media Trust of Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, presents these realities from South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Mali in West Africa and of course from India.

This truth has hit Monsanto so badly between the eyes that it has produced 29 short films of its own and has hosted them on its website to counter these realities. While Monsanto can have testimonies from manipulated farmers and paid scientists, the AP Coalition in Defence of Diversity and the Deccan Development Society will soon come out with its own web videos representing the experiences of farmer-victims of Genetic Engineering from different parts of the world and from independent, free thinking, respected scientists who have refused the corporate traps and have been cautioning the humanity about the negative impacts of GMOs.
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complete article here

[truedelphi]

1. Once again, Industry has the money to counter the truth

Our overly vaccinated, bovine growth hormone ingesting children suffer from allergies, asthma, diabetes, cancer, learning disabilities and other horrors at rates previously unseen, but as long as industry can lie without being punished, genetically modified foodstuffs will predominate.

Anyone know if the Attorney General in New York State has taken Monsanto out for its genetically-modified misrepresentations?

Previously the Attorney General there has fined Monsanto for its unfounded and its false claims about RoundUp.