Farms: Organic Farmers Vs Monsanto -Jim Gerritsen
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http://NextNewsNetwork.com | http://osgata.org For some people, the statement "No farms means no food" is obvious. But millions of people never give the matter even a minute's thought. They simply assume that food spontaneously materializes on the shelves of the local grocery store. Many of those same people never spend a second wondering what is in the food products they put into their shopping carts -- including the produce that they think is a healthy alternative to canned and packaged items. In recent years, a growing number of consumers and food producers in the United States and overseas have demanded truth in labeling regarding the use of genetically engineered foods, commonly referred to as GMOs. Leading the struggle to prevent transparency is the global agribusiness combine Monsanto, the leading producer of genetically modified seeds. Monsanto, it should be noted, is the same company that produced Agent Orange and dioxin. Numerous studies have documented the health risks of consuming GMOs, which is why their use has been banned in countries in Europe and Latin America. Here in the United States, Monsanto is for all intents and purposes an arm of the federal government. Scores of key government officials have passed through the revolving door between the biotech industry and federal regulatory agencies. Monsanto and its allies are increasingly using both government regulatory agencies and private security companies to harass and persecute independent farmers who are resisting the onslaught of GMOs. What is being done to oppose the Monsanto-led biotech juggernaut? We have the privilege today of speaking with a leader of the resistance. In addition to running a small organic farm in Maine, Jim Gerritsen is president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, or OSGTA. He is spearheading a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto that was filed last spring on behalf of 270,000 family farmers, gardeners, and consumers. Jim and his colleagues are seeking to keep at least some food crops free of genetic modification. Next News Network's World News Program airs daily at 6pm and 11pm Eastern on Comcast, DirecTV and Over-the-Air and Online at http://.com/.html World News is available to 6 million viewers from South Beach to Sebastian, Florida and to 2 million viewers in Boston, Massachusetts via . broadcasts on RF channel 44 (virtual channel 9) from Palm City and is carried on cable TV channels 44 (SD) and 1044 (HD) by AT&T, on cable channels 17 (SD) and 438 (HD) in West Palm Beach by Comcast, on satellite channel 44 (SD) in West Palm Beach by DIRECTV, and on -Boston which broadcasts on RF channel 38 (virtual channel 6) from the Government Center district in downtown Boston. More about : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Like us on Facebook: http://Facebook.com/NextNewsNet Follow us on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/NextNewsNet Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NextNewsNetwork
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Even if GMOs themselves are found safe, the damn pesticides they spray on them sure are not
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solution for Monsanto harassing you to use their garbage. Shoot them. Problem solved. Fuckin cunts need to LEARN THEIR PLACE.
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We are all economic slaves people need to wake up and see that. Here are some quotes I hope you read them and copy them down they will change your life they will empower you and allow you to see the world how it really is.
There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot. John F. Kennedy
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. Nelson Mandela.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. Nelson Mandela
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives. Heraclitus of Ephesus
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken. Antonio Porchia
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. Aristotle
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift
Mastering others is strength mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu
Hope is the dream of a man awake. French Proverb
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. Dalai Lama
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy Dalai Lama
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. Lao Tzu
It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela.
The classes and the races too weak to master the new conditions of life must give way. They must perish in the revolutionary holocaust. Karl Marx
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato
If a man neglects education he walks lame to the end of his life. Plato
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
Strong people don’t put others down they lift them up. Michael P. Watson
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace. Martin Luther King, JR.
There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela
Socrates asked- What’s the point in battleships and city walls, unless the people building them and protected by them are happy?
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live. Dalai Lama
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle
When life puts you in tough situations don’t say why me just say try me.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lai Tzu
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato
To lead people walk behind them. Lao Tzu
United we stand, divided we fall.
Freedom is not free you have to fight for it.
However many holy words you read however many you speak what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
Please stand against GMO’s on May 24 2014 even if we lose we try and try again until we beat Monsanto! To all Monsanto think tanks Prove GMO's can feed the world. Monsanto has been saying GMO's can feed the world for years now and yet people are still starving. Monsanto has been growing GMO's in Africa, and says they are going to get rid of starvation in Africa and yet people are still starving in Africa. When they say they’re going to feed the world that's just a business slogan. Are we going to trust a company that said DDT was safe? When it all comes down to it. It’s all about money. These rich people that own these biotech company’s don’t care if you live or die you’re just another serf or economic slave or a potential customer to them. People need to wake up and see that. And if GMO’s are so safe and good for us then why don’t they want GMO’s labeled. If I had designed GMO plants that would end starvation and feed the world I would have it label because I would be so proud of what I have achieved. But they don’t want it labeled I wonder why? It must not be all safe and health like the say it is. And you can’t trust the FDA look how the FDA handled the mad cow incident. They were telling people just cook your food really well and you won't get mad cow. People are so trusting that they believed the FDA, you can cook beef that has mad cow to ashes and then eat the ashes and still get mad cow. The FDA also says plastic with BPA is safe. BPA plastic is still being used today it’s everywhere. It’s one of the reasons why so many men are going sterile even plastic products that say BPA free are not BPS free witch is just another form of BPA. They just turned BPA into BPS so they can put BPA free on all these plastic products. You are still getting a synthetic form of estrogen. -
This has nothing to do with article!
FYI, Geoengineering (weather modification and control) chemtrials! To saturate our atmosphere daily with TOXIC chemicals is not achieving a clean or a green environment! Deploying aerosol programs for years dispersing ALUMINUM OXIDE, BARIUM, STRONTIUM AND OTHER TOXIC CHEMICALS spraying 10 to 20 million tons of toxic materials. There is a filed patent number US741314582 'Systems and Methods for Aerial Dispersion of Materials' filed by the CIA's EVERGREEN AIR and the EPA Does Nothing! Lab tests have disclosed extremely high levels of toxins in rain, ground water, and atmosphere. Blood and urine tests reveal high levels of these toxic chemicals including cadmium. This causes Severe Drought with moisture reducing desiccants, Monsanto's drought and Aluminum Resiestant Seeds which you think they are apart of this? Devastation of Forests, Shredding of Ozone Layer science has proven this, Alzheimer's Disease International reports radical increase of 4.6million cases each year, 10,000% increase in Autism since 1975, Alarming Honeybee Die Off where Geoengineering is taking place. Geoengineer's statement "Geoengineering changes in the environment could lead not only to winners and losers, but even to conflicts over resources and the potential for migration and instability..."
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." Albert Einstein
geoengineeringwatch! FreedomAdvocates-agenda21, Georgia Guide Stone-depopulation goals! -
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is there anything that can be done
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Baby steps, you start by demanding lobbyists be outlawed in politics country wide permanently. Only then can you make progress against companies Like Monsanto and the MPA/RIAA. Your rights will only be restored by closing down business on K street in Washington DC.
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Make no mistake, i am very pro capatilism. What you mentioned had already happened, whole foods jumped on that wagon a while ago. I guess you could call me a Jeffersonian, people should be growing SOME of their own food.
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But how can you buy non-gmo if the great government conspiracy refuses to pass mandatory labeling laws! Might I suggest that the free markets have provided you with information because their are enough customers that want the information...no government mandate required.
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Thank You for giving us the REAL news. We all need to stand up and fight against the biotech corporations who are hell bent on destroying our health and environment, all for profit and greed. March Against Monsanto - Oct 12, 2013 Stand Up and Take Action. Our voices must be heard!!!!!
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I was once stuck on a two lane road where a logging truck accident had occurred. The long wait offered the opportunity to get out of the car near a meadow. Because the time was near sunset, I could see plants shooting seeds into the air. It was amazing. Because plants shoot seeds, bees (dwindling in numbers) and birds cross pollinate, and the wind is still free to carry pollen where it wants, Monsanto should be sued for pollution. It's a shame campaign finance/big business control Congress
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what I want to see is the people that are making and supporting the gmo shit have to eat it,if it's safe shouldn't be a problem,,
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is someone messing with youtube?
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I follow the Quran and God mentioned 11 times that we should eat from the Lawful, Pure and Unpolluted Provisions. Polluted means without pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, GMOs and . . . But Monsanto and other companies Polluted our food long time ago and we did not even know about it! God says satan orders you to change God's Creations! I need to know if my food is GMO or sprayed on. That is one of my Religious duties. This young lady was inspired by God. May God bless you.
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no its not, its regulated and you need a permit in several areas epically in drought prone conditions.
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Some states have made it illegal to save rain water.
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umm what? you're going to have to elaborate
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How hard would it be for Monsanto to start putting the cross contaminates, used in the GMO industry, into the chem trails, that local and military air craft have been spraying on everything on earth, WORLD-WIDE. Our water, food, animals, human health, organic and non-organic food producers alike are all at risk here. All it takes is one chemical to show up on any organic product grown and it is over for that organic farmer.Don't believe me take samples water/soil to be tested, find out yourself.
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FU*K Monsanto