Another Bush Crime against humanity and Gaia

[email protected] Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:09:33 EST
Newsgroups gmane.technology.sustainable.ecobalance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This story utterly appalls me. The Bush regime, as the tool of Glomart, has 
become more profoundly evil than even I could have imagined. Please circulate 
as widely as possible.

The Ultimate War Crime: Breaking the Agricultural Cycle --For the record: 
"U.S. declares Iraqis can not save their own seeds" --edited by Iman Khaduri "As 
part of sweeping 'economic restructuring' implemented by the Bush 
Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds, 
which include seeds the Iraqis themselves have developed over hundreds of years. 
Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations. That is 
because in recent years, transnational corporations have patented and now own many 
seed varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples. In a short time, 
Iraq will be living under the new American credo: Pay Monsanto, or starve.' 
The American Administrator of the Iraqi CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) 
government, Paul Bremer, updated Iraq's intellectual property law to 'meet 
current internationally-recognized standards of protection'. The updated law makes 
saving seeds for next year's harvest, practiced by 97% of Iraqi farmers in 
2002, and is the standard farming practice for thousands of years across human 
civilizations, to be now illegal. Instead, farmers will have to obtain a yearly 
license for genetically modified (GM) seeds from American corporations."