Monsanto is now reducing its prices including heavily discounting SmartStax. March Monsanto Admits Bt Cotton has Failed in India For the first time anywhere in the world, biotech agriculture giant Monsanto has admitted that insects have developed resistance to its Bt insect resistant cotton crop.
Evidence was observed by Monsanto from Gujarat province. February India has halted the commercial cultivation of what would have been its first GE vegetable crop — eggplant. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said more studies were needed to ensure GE aubergines were safe for consumers and the environment.
July 15, Monsanto has invested in developing new GM wheat. Monsanto bought WestBred, a Montana company specializing in wheat germplasm. Monsanto stated they will now develop new GM wheat varieties. Join the Global Rejection counter statement — sign on here! May Monsanto says it expects its U. Check the story. Monsanto stands to gain substantially from the rush to produce fuels from our agricultural base — biofuels agrofuels — because the acreage of GE crops could now be expanded to grow fuel as well as food.
Click here for more information on agrofuels. Bovine Growth Hormone In August Monsanto sold its controversial and widely rejected recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone BGH , a genetically engineered veterinary drug designed to boost milk production in dairy cows, to pharmaceutical company Eli Lily.
Click here to read the book chapter about what happened in Canada to BGH. Patents Monsanto owns patents on its genetic sequences and enforces its patent rights over these traits by suing farmers it believes have saved and used its seeds without authorization. Monsanto now owns Terminator technology which would be the perfect tool for the corporation to protect its patents, without the bad public relations of suing farmers see below.
Click here to see Vandana Shiva describe what patents mean to Monsanto. Monsanto responded with a pledge never to commercialize Terminator. Got to be kidding about how they tried to save themselves They are still there and still killing millions. I have no problem with GMOs, golden rice is awesome and saved millions of people from blindness and other health problems caused by vitamin A deficiency. But that case of the one farmer being sued that was mentioned in the article was NOT an isolated case.
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By Lessley Anderson on March 4, Lessley Anderson. Everyone seems to think that Monsanto is the face of evil. But why? In , Greenpeace activists held a letter to Monsanto's China CEO and a bowl of rice to protest in the lobby of a building where Monsanto has its office in Beijing. It's not just the U.
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I bought meat and dairy products from farmers raising grass-fed livestock. Bit by bit, my menu expanded. It was in no way lavish, but by the end of the month I was eating a healthy balanced diet of mostly rice, meat and veggies.
Every person on the planet, says Jeavons, can feed themselves with just square feet of well-managed land. A little known study by botanist Sue Edwards found that organic gardening test sites in Ethiopia produced significantly higher yields from every single crop tested. At the same time that more and more data is pointing toward organics and away from the giant mono-crop farming that embraces genetically modified foods, unflattering data on American-style agriculture continues to mount. In , the US used five times more fertilizer than it did in , with crop yields lagging far behind, at an estimated fifty percent increase.
Polluting pesticide use is at an all time high while more crops are lost to pests now than six decades ago. Generally known for producing genetically modified organisms GMOs , having a bad environmental record, using dangerous pesticides, and clashing with local farmers.
But how did they get this reputation? Read on to find out! Instead of relying on natural laws, farmers would have to buy new seeds from Monsanto — every single year.
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