Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising

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from YES! Magazine:


Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising
The book Harvesting Justice isn’t just a look at the world’s most exciting food justice groups—it’s also a knockout organizing tool.

by Daniel Moss
posted Apr 10, 2013


[font size="1"]A group of Rarámuri Indians from Bocoyna Municipality, who marched into the governor’s palace in 2008 to demand that genetically modified corn not contaminate their native seeds. Photo by David Lauer.[/font]


Chewing on a mouthful of locally grown lettuce, I wondered if the claims I’d heard about the global food-justice movement were true. Was there a line to follow, however crooked, between my purchase of these greens, land reform in Brazil and opposition to genetically modified seeds in California. Or was it all just empty calories?

As a somewhat conscientious consumer and occasional Taco Bell boycotter, I’ve hoped that the movement was real. But it hasn't always been easy to perceive the connection between marching for improved farmworker rights, signing a petition against factory feedlots, and cooking up beets from a CSA (that is, community supported agriculture, which usually comes in the form a box of assorted veggies delivered to people who contribute to a local farm’s financial well-being).

Those connections form a tight weave in the new book, Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agriculture in the Americas. Using “food sovereignty” as the secret sauce, the book sautés the individual ingredients of sister movements into a coherent, flavorful whole.

The book was created for the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance—a network of organizations allied with La Via Campesina, which advocates for culturally appropriate (think tortillas in Mexico instead of bread), ecologically sound (no GMOs), and small-farmer friendly food systems. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/look-out-monsanto-global-food-movement-is-rising

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1. du rec. nt

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. While in Costa Rica this January

I watched a news broadcast that gave an entire 5 minutes coverage to activists in San Jose protesting GMO showing signs
Specifically against Montsanto. 250 people attended and 5 minutes of coverage!

[haikugal]

3. Rec!

Thanks for this information..I'll look for this book.

[TRoN33]

4. Latin America trumps over the multi-national corporation...

All the way from Minnesota, I am rooting for all of Latin America countries to ban Monsanto from these countries. Good for them. I am glad that they are protecting the natural grown corn and keep it pure.

The most embarrassing part is that our American government are literally being take over by Monsanto henchmen/women. I am young and I hope that Americans will see the day when Monsanto corporation itself would collapse into nothing but dust from the history.

[DeeDeeNY]

5. One of the scariest book I've ever read was

Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith. What an eye-opener about genetically modified foods.

[loudsue]

6. This is beautiful! I want to read the book, and

I am so glad to know there are foundations for this movement. Monsanto scares me more than republicans. They, and their buddies dow and du pont, scare the hell out of me.

[DhhD]

7. Scares me too. One of the first stories about Mankind was the eating of fruit. Eve (first) and

Adam became completely different. They had, live forever genes before they decided to eat the forbidden fruit that added awareness to themselves? If you believe in God, He gave us a SUPER warning about accepting genes for the purpose of giving, an Edge to ourselves. God had already given control over living things on the Earth to Eve and Adam before genetic awareness. The first 10 generations of Adam were alive at the same time. Apparently after the Great Flood, genetics changed dramatically. In my opinion, genetics were, "enhanced," by the agricultural decisions of mankind. Native peoples have learned to re-listen to Nature. They see the consequences of Man over Nature.

[Eljo_Don]

8. plague

D. Republic. MONS hiring tugs to spread agricultural pests on rice an beans fields. Then sell their GM products.