"monsanto On Hot Seat" !!!!!!!!

[Enviro Girl]

I have come to admire the work of Pesticide Action Network North America | Advancing Alternatives to Pesticides Worldwide - The Pesticide Action Network of North America.

Each week, they have these news updates, panups - Monsanto is featured and called out, almost every week...It makes me grin from ear to ear!

Did you guys know Monsanto is being investigated by the Department of Justice?

Wooooo Hooooo!

The bigger they are, the harder they FALL!

Here's an excerpt from a 03/19/10 PANNA update:

Monsanto on hot seat; Miracle-Gro & baseball deal; Climate change & persistent pesticides | Pesticide Action Network North America

Monsanto on hot seat

Ankeny, Iowa -- Last Friday marked the beginning of a year-long investigation into the ill-effects of corporate control over food and farming. In an unusual collaboration, the U.S. departments of justice (DOJ) and agriculture (USDA) have convened the investigations, promising what Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney termed an "unrelenting quest to find the correct balance" of power in agriculture, according to Reuters. The day was historic, if long overdue. In between two million farmers and 300 million consumers stand a handful of corporations controlling all the traffic. Friday's "workshop" focused on the seed industry in particular. Monsanto representatives were present in force, as the corporation is under scrutiny for near-monopoly control of corn and soybean seed markets, and genetically engineered seed markets more broadly.
On the ground in Iowa were Pesticide Action Network's Executive Director, Kathryn Gilje, and Senior Scientist, Dr. Marcia Ishii-Eiteman. Gilje and Ishii-Eiteman joined hundreds of farmers, food workers, Iowans and PAN allies -- including National Family Farm Coalition, Food & Water Watch, and Food Democracy Now! -- in a town hall meeting organized on Thursday evening to bring together and give voice to farmers, advocates and allies from across the political spectrum, all of whom share an interest in breaking up monopoly control over food and agriculture. The message from farmers was clear: “Enough is enough. Corporations have no right to control our food and our lives. It's time to bust up Big Ag!”

Dr. Ishii Eiteman presented scientific evidence from the most comprehensive analysis of global agriculture (PDF) ever undertaken. The assessment found that: (1) Genetically modified seeds and industrial-scale farming will not feed our growing world; and (2) these technologies in fact have benefitted large, transnational corporations and wealthier groups, not the hungry. On seeds, in particular, PAN is concerned about a very small handful of multinational corporations controlling our shared seedstock -- the very foundation of food and agriculture. Ever since a narrow 5-4 Supreme Court decision in 1980 to allow the patenting of living organisms, and a law adopted the same year that allows publicly funded research to be patented and sold for commercial use, seeds are increasingly owned by a small handful of corporations, with Monsanto, Dupont/Pioneer and Syngenta in the lead.

[zara cybele]

Finally!
Thanks for posting this. Good link. Good news.

[Enviro Girl]

Sorry I got soooo excited to see this article I had a keyboard fart and posted it 2x

Zara - Panna is my latest on the list of new-found HEROES! They rock!

Duh, anyone know how to help me delete a whole thread? I lack forum tech skills...

Tks!,

[Enviro Girl]

Mon$hito's poisoned vine strangling the earth is withering, right in front of us.

It fills me with GLEE!

Let's kick them in the back while they are already twitching, on the ground. They are poised to be in HUGE, global legal trouble and we could have Morgellon's be the last domino to fall in their toppling demise!

Folks, please help push my petition, start other petitions in your own countries and let's turn the tables.

You can edit the whole petition if you feel it's too accusatory:

Cohesion: Uniform Morgie Press Release - ?!

I believe we can WIN & get Morg & ALL GMO patent-holders demolished with patented stains of GMO lab tests of our blood and skin

We need blood and skin tests of these patented strains of GMO's + parasites and we'll kick their toxic tails!!!

LET'S BAN GMOS!!!!

[Enviro Girl]

Hey BO, what does a soldier do?!

I'm going to take my enemy down @ the knees, SIR!

Disarm his ability to harm my platoon, SIR!

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When money's all they love - that's what you take.

We need to protect others and to make sure this NEVER happens again...Or else more new IT's will be dispersed each flu season and whatnot.

The precedent needs set so these implicated Patent Holders become a Bad Example/Scarlet Letter of what happens w/GMO distribution and experimentation.

Folks, TESTING - Let's bring on the Litigation against GM Patent Holders for Patented GMO's found in our blood and skin samples, tested by 2 labs that WILL hold up in court!!!

Then, these patented GMO lab tests are proof that the DOP/Misdiagnosing Non-Testing bad docs failed us, for years. This is what they should have done for us ALL in the first place instead of making sick laymen figure this ALL out for themselves.
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"MONEY, so they say...is the ROOT of all evil today" - Pink Floyd, Money

[Enviro Girl]

Bayer CropScience - Bayer CropScience, Max Planck Society and Monsanto Company resolve Agrobacterium patent dispute

Friday, February 4, 2005

Joint Press Release

Bayer CropScience, Max Planck Society and Monsanto Company resolve Agrobacterium patent dispute

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Monheim (Germany) – Bayer CropScience, Monheim, the Max Planck Society and their affiliate Garching Innovation GmbH, both based in Munich, Germany and Monsanto Company, St. Louis, USA, announced today that they have reached an agreement that resolves long-standing patent interference or other proceedings in different countries involving the use of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to create transgenic crops. Agrobacterium transformation technology allows scientists to transfer DNA to plant cells.

Under the agreement, Max Planck Society, Bayer CropScience, Garching Innovation, and Monsanto will cross license their respective Agrobacterium-mediated transformation technologies worldwide. Bayer CropScience, Max Planck’s exclusive licensee, and Monsanto will provide each other, in selected areas of the world, non-exclusive licenses related to the development, use and sale of transgenic crops. Monsanto will also provide Max Planck Society with a license in the United States for research purposes.

Additional details of the agreement were not disclosed.

"This agreement secures freedom for the involved parties in the field of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation technology, thereby ensuring present and future market access for their respective technologies in the United States and Canada," said Dr. Bernward Garthoff, member of the Bayer CropScience Board of Management, responsible for R&D.

"This is a positive development for agricultural biotechnology as a whole," said Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Monsanto. “Through the agreement, the parties recognize the global contributions of the Max Planck and Monsanto scientists who invented this technology. This agreement enables their respective agricultural innovations to reach consumers and farmers without hindrance.”

Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, one of Germany’s largest non-profit research organizations, comprises 78 individual institutes, each of which conducts research in areas of the natural sciences and the humanities. As the technology transfer agency for the Max Planck Society, Garching Innovation GmbH fosters and manages the commercialization of inventions and know-how discovered or created at Max Planck institutes. Further information is available at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Website der MPG .

Bayer CropScience, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of about EUR 5.8 billion (2003), is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of about 19,000 and is represented in more than 120 countries, ensuring proximity to dealers and consumers. Further information is available at Bayer CropScience - one of the world's leading innovative enterprises in crop protection, seeds, biotechnology and non-agricultural pest control. .

Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a leading provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products that improve farm productivity. For more information on Monsanto, see: Monsanto ~ Home .

Monheim, February 4, 2005