"Monsanto and industrial agriculture's darkening shadow over our food"

[JohnyCanuck]

The following excerpt of a wonderful article by Gene Logsdon must be put in the context of the USDA current and aggressive efforts to drive Amish farmers out of business. In Wisconsin, Emmanuel Miller, an Amish farmer is being sued by the state agriculture department there for refusing to register his property, for religious reasons, under Premises ID, part of NAIS. Meanwhile the state will not answer profound concerns about NAIS and what it is really about: www.opednews.com/articles/NAIS-bogus-Avian-Flu-epid-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090113-29.html and www.opednews.com/articles/The-SCAM-behind-NAIS--Ou-by-Derry-Brownfield-081130-795.html ).

The Amish face demands to wire their barns though they don't use electricity, the Mennonite www.counterpunch.org/cohen04262008.html and Amish are being raided in Pennsylvania by the Department of Agriculture for selling raw milk though now even urban customers seek out the wholesome product they have sold safely in their communities for hundreds of years. www.opednews.com/articles/Raw-Milk-Dairying-A-Contin-by-Kimberly-Hartke-090112-790.html And I heard (unconfirmed as yet) from a farmer in Wisconsin that this year, it will be illegal to purchase animals from farms (during a time when people are losing jobs and food distribution may be threatened).

Add to all that the criminalization of farmer's normal seed cleaning equipment now deemed a source of seed contamination by the FDA, influenced by Monsanto. www.opednews.com/articles/Raids-on-Seeds-life-itsel-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-081215-45.html So, Amish farmers - or any of our farmers - cannot sell seeds considered food in themselves - raw seeds like flax, poppy, sesame, etc.; sprouting seeds like wheat, alfalfa, broccoli, amaranth, all kinds of greens and beans, etc.; seeds pressed into oil like corn, soy, canola, sunflower, etc. Oh, they "can" use seed cleaning equipment but only if it is the industrial equipment approved by the FDA and financially far out of reach for farmers.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-and-industrial-ag-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090114-530.html

[CrispyQ]

1. The beast we unleashed on the rest of the world is now coming for us.

This nightmare for our farmers (and thus for us) is being written by and run by and on behalf of massive plans of agribusiness and biotech to take over all food.Bremer's Order #81 in Iraq took over their seed banks and delivered them to Monsanto and others, while criminalizing farmers collecting their own seed, forcing the elimination of all biodiversity there, and reducing a country in dire trouble already, to be dependent on multinationals like Monsanto for food. That is the most profound colonialism.
au.messages.yahoo.com/news/localnews-vic/2527?p=last

This colonial theft by US corporations has gone on in other parts of the world for a long time, destroying people there and providing us with cheap goods and our rich lifestyle. What we are missing, though, is that those companies are now colonizing us. Crops and animals (and all access to natural health substances) are being taken over.
articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/19/vitamin-c-about-to-be-made-illegal-in-canada.aspx?source=nl

K&R

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. There are 6 billion+ people on the planet now, and could be 9 billion

in another 20 years.

Forget ideologies. Forget oil.

This century the wars will be for food and clean water.

Monsanto is positioning itself to be THE major player. They are the Krup Arms of the coming century, with all the same morals.

[pleah]

3. K&R#5

[The2ndWheel]

4. Monsanto just does what humans have been doing for a long time

Only on global and microscopic scales. I'm not sure how you avoid Monsantoism once you start down the road of attempting to control the outcome.

[knitter4democracy]

5. I will continue to buy animals from local farmers.

F*** you, Monsanto. We need food, and I could care less about your bottom line or your investors.

[hankthecrank]

6. Monsanto all's your foods is ours

but more to the point please pay. Just because you didn't buy from us we still own what you grow