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Seeds designed to die from Monsanto

 
Anonymous Coward
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Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
Monsanto's terminator technology creates seeds that suicide to gain control of the world's food crops.

What you need to know about terminator technology
The United States Government and GE companies have developed a patented technology “to create sterile seeds by selectively programming the plants DNA to kill its own embryos” Vandana Shiva. The USDA receives a 5% profit from the sales as a sort of policing action.
Farmers who save seed from these plants will be unable to get them to germinate. “Pea pods, tomatoes, peppers, heads of wheat, and ears of corn will essentially become seed morgues. Thus the system will force farmers to buy seeds from seed companies every year… The gradual spread of sterility in seeding plants would result in a global catastrophe that could eventually wipe out higher life forms including humans from the planet”, Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest.

“Never before has man created an insidiously dangerous, far reaching, and potentially ‘perfect’ plan to control the livelihoods, food supply and even survival of all humans on the planet”.

Writer Gene Guidette says “In one broad, brazen stroke of his hand, man will have irretrievably broken the plant-to-seed-to-plant-to-seed cycle, the cycle that supports most life on the planet. No seed, no food, unless you buy more seed… The terminator technology… has crossed the line, the tenacious line been genius and insanity. It is a dangerous, idea that should be banned. Period.”

Monsanto and the USDA have patents that give them monopoly control for 20 years over GE technology. Terminator was developed according to the USDA scientist Melvin Oliver because…" The need was there to come up with a system that allowed you to self-police your technology, other than trying to put on laws and legal barriers to farmers saving seeds and to try and stop foreign interests from stealing the technology. "
There are 1.4 billion indigenous people and peasant farmers whose whole livelihood revolves around selecting and saving seed for next year’s crop planting. They select and adapt local varieties to their unique needs. If Terminator were commercialised their livelihoods would be threatened for no other purpose than to transfer ownership and control of our publicly owned food crops to GE crop companies.

Monsanto breaks its promise
In 1999 Monsanto responding to global outrage said “We are making a public commitment not to commercialise sterile seed technologies such as the one dubbed ‘Terminator’ but today it has revised this policy on a case-by-case basis".

Australian government backs Terminator
The Australian government which does not have an official public policy on Terminator is supporting Monsanto’s case-by-case approach. At the UN convention on Biological Diversity there is a global ban on Terminator which since 2005 the Australian, Canadian and NZ governments have sought to overturn.

Terminator is as much a threat to the life of plants as murder is a threat to people.
If you as a gardener want to ban Terminator print out and fill out the petition.

[link to www.diggers.com.au]
Matrix
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03/03/2007 05:29 AM
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Re: Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
Mankind creates his own enemies(natural and neighbors), and then spends trillions always trying to "fix" things. Using man made solutions to fix the natural problems of life is not going to fix anything, but give contracts to corporations who don't want profitable problems to go away.
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Re: Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
Mankind creates his own enemies(natural and neighbors), and then spends trillions always trying to "fix" things. Using man made solutions to fix the natural problems of life is not going to fix anything, but give contracts to corporations who don't want profitable problems to go away.
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Well Said and true
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03/03/2007 05:45 AM
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Re: Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
So would this make bees redundant?
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So would this make bees redundant?
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Only for the food crops useing terminater seed technology. The rest of nature has yet to be improved by Monsantos profit lust.

This stuff scares me more than controlled demolition, Irans nuclear agenda, or the galactic tsunami. Why?-if the plants cross pollenate, and go to trees, wild plants etc, we are all dead. Monsanto will have made a real killing.

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By Jupiter
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03/03/2007 06:12 AM
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Re: Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
Maybe it's time to act:

Interesting counterpoint to this here: The man who planted trees.

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By Jupiter
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03/03/2007 06:16 AM
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Re: Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
Or maybe protect your own species:

Heirloom Seeds from a non-profit organisation:

[link to www.seedsavers.org]
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Re: Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
hmm... this would compliment another thread bump
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Re: Seeds designed to die from Monsanto
The maize fields in Mexico are ALL CONTAMINATED BY MONSANTO's sterile seeds. They are getting ready to grow rice in KS with human DNA in it.

The UK has also approved human-animal hybrids to be created. Alot of the tampered with GMO plants have their fertilizers and their ROUND-UP in the plant.


Many studies have shown liver and kidney failure with GMO


Genesis 1st chapter

"...and all the green plants and herbs I give unto man, THOSE BEARING SEED..."



Butterflies, bees, and other pollinators are decreasing in large numbers-could it have to do with contaminated plants(GMO)


[link to www.biotech-monitor.nl]

[link to www.citizen.org]

[link to courses.che.umn.edu]

[link to www.agbiotechnet.com]

[link to www.rag.org.au]



[link to www.mindfully.org]


bush keeps trying to shove GM foods down the EU´s throat-they have repeatedly blocked them, from their market and most of the GM foods come from USA.
Since when does it benefit OUR government, to promote monsanto and the like businesses. In June 2003, President George W. Bush made the issue of lifting an 8-year European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) plants a matter of US national strategic priority. These foods have the potential to destroy our bodies and disrupt all biodiversity left; leaving in its wake of ´abundant food´ will turn into famine very rapidly.

Follow the collusion of Monsanto and petrol companies-an interesting symbiosis...

Why have so many heritage/heirloom seeds been outlawed-SEEDS of food-HMMMMM

GMO(GEO)
This acronym stands for “genetically modified organisms,” or "genetically engineered food" Nothing close to Green Acres-more like blood acres-
Organisms we are suppose to eat???-it could contain human dna in the food or fish/lizard/buffalo/whatever-it is not "food" it is frankenfood and capable of making physiological changes-soon mad cow will be nothing compared to mad human-consuming human dna in this new organism food...just like the dead feed they fed our cattle-learning that the spongiform disease kills...

While genetic “modification” has been an agricultural practice for more than 100 years, it has traditionally involved cross-breeding two plants within the same species in order to create a hardier or better-tasting crop. The breeding of a new plant variety involved fine-tuning for the desired characteristics over the course of four or five plant generations, allowing the plant’s new genetic structure to stabilize before the seeds were released to market for wider cultivation. This careful directing of plant characteristics allowed for plant diversity and for adaptability within distinct bio-regions.

Modern genetic modification practices are much different. The GMOs now entering our food supply are coming from plants that have been created by a process called “biolistics,” whereby microbullets covered with the DNA of a foreign species are shot into cells of a “host” plant for the purpose of cross-breeding. Most cells thus assaulted die; the few that survive are propagated into plants for their seed, and from there a new plant form never before seen on earth is born.

The FDA currently does not require labeling of genetically engineered foodstuffs; the consumer right to know is only enforced by the FDA when it deems that the food has undergone a “qualitative change” by virtue of an ingredient or a process. The FDA has thus effectively stated that willfully manipulating a plant’s genetic structure by mating it with a species that would not naturally be a viable breeding partner, thereby creating a new life form, does not constitute a qualitative change to the plant itself. Go figure.

Meteors and volcanoes are dangerous-but what can we do outside of preparing for the inevitable is prudent. However, very little can be done outdside of that. This issue is one I hope the majority grasps and understand that massive steps need to be taken-to stop theses frankenfoods and the frankensteins trying to promote the death of humanity, by starvation. Privatization of water is being pushed too-see any connections?

RFID chips to buy and sell, to acquire food and water-Many say no way-watch how quickly it changes if starvation is the option....watch how multinationals corporations make themselves God.

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