Re: OGM: (ennesimo) inganno globale
Inviato da _gaia_ il 25/9/2007 13:48:20
Due cose: la prima è una petizione on-line che suggerisco di firmare, per la salvaguardia delle sementi locali e della biodiversità rurale; la seconda è una notizia sulla politica agricola del 'nuovo Iraq' voluta dagli USA, tutta a suon di semi OGM targati Monsanto.
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La petizione:
Perché non ci può essere diritto di scambio di semi e piante fra contadini? Perché i contadini a causa della legislazione che lo proibisce devono scambiarsi tra di loro illegalmente le varietà del loro territorio o della loro tradizione, quelle che loro stessi si tramandano e sanno autoriprodursi, quelle che a volte fanno a meno dei pesticidi e resistono meglio alle avverse condizioni ambientali?
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La notizia:
Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Paul Bremer's Order 81
Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India? Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of U.S. diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.
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Indian farmers are choosing death after finding themselves caught in a loop of crop failure and debt rooted in genetically modified and patented agriculture — the same farming model that Bremer introduced to Iraq during his tenure as administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American body that ruled the "new Iraq" in its chaotic early days.
Più oltre si parla anche di un agricoltore canadese di cui ho parlato nella mia ricerca:
(...) Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer featured in the film The Future of Food, who found himself tangled with Monsanto in a heated lawsuit over the presence of Roundup® Ready canola plants on the margins of his fields.
The Canadian farmer argued that he had purchased no Monsanto canola seeds, had never planted Monsanto seeds, and was frankly horrified to find that the genetically modified crops had taken hold in his acreage. Perhaps, suggested Schmeiser, the plants in question were the product of a few rogue GM seeds blown from a truck passing by his land?
Monsanto was uninterested in Schmeiser's theory on how the Roundup® Ready plants got there. As far as the company was concerned, Schmeiser was in possession of an agricultural product whose intellectual property belonged to Monsanto. And it didn't matter much how that came to pass.
Monsanto's interpretation of the impact of seed contamination is, of course, a good one if its goal is to eventually own the rights to the world's seed supply. And that goal may well be in sight. In fact, a 2004 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that much of the U.S. seed pool is already contaminated by GM seeds. If that contamination continues unabated, eventually much of the world's seeds could labor under patents controlled by one agribusiness or another.
(La news completa è al link indicato)
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La petizione:
Perché non ci può essere diritto di scambio di semi e piante fra contadini? Perché i contadini a causa della legislazione che lo proibisce devono scambiarsi tra di loro illegalmente le varietà del loro territorio o della loro tradizione, quelle che loro stessi si tramandano e sanno autoriprodursi, quelle che a volte fanno a meno dei pesticidi e resistono meglio alle avverse condizioni ambientali?
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La notizia:
Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Paul Bremer's Order 81
Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India? Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of U.S. diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.
(...)
Indian farmers are choosing death after finding themselves caught in a loop of crop failure and debt rooted in genetically modified and patented agriculture — the same farming model that Bremer introduced to Iraq during his tenure as administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American body that ruled the "new Iraq" in its chaotic early days.
Più oltre si parla anche di un agricoltore canadese di cui ho parlato nella mia ricerca:
(...) Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer featured in the film The Future of Food, who found himself tangled with Monsanto in a heated lawsuit over the presence of Roundup® Ready canola plants on the margins of his fields.
The Canadian farmer argued that he had purchased no Monsanto canola seeds, had never planted Monsanto seeds, and was frankly horrified to find that the genetically modified crops had taken hold in his acreage. Perhaps, suggested Schmeiser, the plants in question were the product of a few rogue GM seeds blown from a truck passing by his land?
Monsanto was uninterested in Schmeiser's theory on how the Roundup® Ready plants got there. As far as the company was concerned, Schmeiser was in possession of an agricultural product whose intellectual property belonged to Monsanto. And it didn't matter much how that came to pass.
Monsanto's interpretation of the impact of seed contamination is, of course, a good one if its goal is to eventually own the rights to the world's seed supply. And that goal may well be in sight. In fact, a 2004 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that much of the U.S. seed pool is already contaminated by GM seeds. If that contamination continues unabated, eventually much of the world's seeds could labor under patents controlled by one agribusiness or another.
(La news completa è al link indicato)
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