Creating A Better World

“We now believe that Monsanto has control over as much as 90 percent of (seed genetics). This level of control is almost unbelievable,” says Neil Harl, agricultural economist at Iowa State University who has studied the seed industry for decades.   

Monsanto increased some corn seed prices last year by 25 percent, with an additional 7 percent hike planned for corn seeds in 2010. Monsanto brand soybean seeds climbed 28 percent last year and will be flat or up 6 percent in 2010

Monsanto is responsible for more than 50 Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites and hundreds of toxic chemicals that contaminate every living thing on Earth.

More recently, Monsanto, (Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear), has moved on to harassing farmers who (they believe) refuse to abide by an agreement not to collect any of the seeds generated by plants that Monsanto considers its intellectual property (GMO’S) 

Despite Monsanto’s hype, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), aren’t meant to feed the world or survive the evermore frequent droughts and floods brought on by global warming.  They are designed to sell Monsanto’s patented Roundup resistant or Bt seeds and pesticides now spliced into millions of acres of corn, cotton, soy, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa.  A 2009 study showed that, over the last 13 years, Roundup Ready crops have increased herbicide use by 383 million pounds.

The USDA has approved GMO alfalfa, but that approval has been overturned by a California judge at the request of farmers, environmentalists, and consumer activists.

When GM alfalfa and other Monsanto crops are planted in the open environment, they contaminate non-GMO and organic varieties as well as plant relatives. Any farmer whose crops are inadvertantly cross-pollinated with GMO crops is fined by Monsanto.  Organic crops that are accidentally cross-pollinated are no longer organic, and years of careful planting by organic farmers are futile.

This is more dangerous than the existing GMOs on the market (corn, soy, canola, cotton, and sugar) because alfalfa is a perennial, therefore  it’s pollinated by bees.  Those bees will spread GMO’s to everything they touch.  The contamination of organic alfalfa, and possibly several other foods, is a serious threat to public health and safety.

Alfalfa, which is used for livestock feed and can be planted in spring or fall, is the nation’s fourth largest crop and is grown on about 23 million acres in the country.

GMO alfalfa has not been adequately tested, NOBODY truly knows the effect it (and the millions of pounds of pesticides) will have on the animals that eat it, or the people who eat the animals.

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