Re: Another Bush Crime against humanity and Gaia

Contact this group in India......

" The Struggle Begins for Agricultural Freedom!
There is hope. Resistance to GE multinationals in India, for example, is 
growing. In the Tehri Garwhal district of Uttar Pradesh, a small group of 
farmers has formed the Save the Seeds Movement and is teaching other small 
farmers to hold on to their traditional ecological, self-sustaining farming 
methods as well as their seeds. The farmers use intercropping methods, 
planting as many as 12 different cereals and legumes in one field, with each 
crop protecting the others from pests. This is one small but vital example 
of how crops are protected, local people fed, and soil remains pristine and 
fertile.(18) Best of all, farmers remain economically independent and can 
hold their heads high! In the words of Shiva, "Democratic control of the 
food system is the ultimate test of democracy!"(19) "

 "These laws are called "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush 
Administration in Iraq. Shalini Bhutani, who wrote a report on this issue, 
said, "The US has been imposing patents on life around the world through 
trade deals. In this case, they invaded the country first, then imposed 
their patents. This is both immoral and unacceptable." The new IP law of US 
patents on Iraqi life forms will herald the new industrial-agricultural 
system wherein the farmers are totally dependent on transnational 
agribusiness corporations for providing input and seeds. The law ignores the 
tremendous contribution of Iraqi farmers to the evolution of seed crops like 
wheat, barley, date and pulses. Not only does Iraq lose political 
sovereignty, they lose their food sovereignty, with the US declaring war on 
the Iraqi farmer!(9) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) has been 
seen as colluding with GM corporations and offering support for their work. 
It is a crying example of the use of GMOs for profit alone, and not for 
collective welfare of the people.(10) Here lies the greatest danger of 
GMOs."

If you want to read the rest you'll have to hit the link below then go to 
feature, then to food.

 GM Foods - How Little We Know
http://www.proutworld.org/

Kit


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Schinnerer" <john-/Gao9/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Ecobal]Another Bush Crime against humanity and Gaia


> Aloha,
>
>> So does anybody have any ideas how Iraqi farmers can fight back on this?
>
> Basic civil disobedience.  Non-compliance.  It appears that quite a few
> issues of basic human needs are coming down to that, all over the world -
> food, water, shelter, land use.  A few people want to own them all, and
> they're not going to be allowed to.
>
> John S.
>
>>
>
>
> John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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