Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready was bad enough, but Dicamba is an order of magnitude worse. It’s a form of toxic, aerial blackmail.
“It’s no surprise farmers are up in arms. Dicamba spreads death with the wind, drifting onto their crops, trees, soil, and water. Farmers are now faced with a terrible choice — switch to Monsanto GMO seeds, or watch their crops die.
It’s a greedy, dangerous scheme that will make Monsanto billions and could destroy our food system.” AVAAZ
You can read more about Dicamba here:
AVAAZ is campaigning for a million signatures to try to stop Monsanto. I’m not American so my signature won’t count, but if you live in the US and you care about food and justice, please sign the petition and ask your friends to sign too.
The petition is here:
Thanks,
Meeks
p.s. we switched over to Daylight Savings time this morning at 2am….I hate it so much. 😦
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October 4th, 2017 at 8:05 am
Will do, Meeka. They are devious and greedy, and their practices should be illegal.
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October 4th, 2017 at 8:09 am
Yup. 😦
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October 3rd, 2017 at 6:14 pm
No words. X
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October 3rd, 2017 at 8:27 pm
I know. 😦
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October 3rd, 2017 at 9:19 am
Yvonne is so right ~ agricultural terrorism. But where is the outrage from the mainstream?
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October 3rd, 2017 at 11:16 am
Sadly, most consumers don’t care so long as the products they buy are cheap. They only become concerned when the food they eat begins to harm them.
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October 3rd, 2017 at 11:23 pm
There is lots of outrage in Europe. In North America, However, Monsanto has the farmers so convinced that fighting them will bankrupt them all, as well as convinced it is not harmful that there are not enough dissenting voices to crack their control. In the U.S. Monsanto has so many high profile politicians, including state governors and members of Congress in their pocket that the people who care have no power. Even in Canada, where I live, almost all grains and soy are Round-up ready. I’ve talked to farmers at agri shows. They are so brainwashed.
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October 4th, 2017 at 8:02 am
Monsanto is getting its claws into Australian agriculture as well. We’re trialing gmo wheat and guess who’s consulting on the project? -shiver-
I fear Monsanto is going to be like that gangster Al Capone – the only thing that’ll bring it down is getting caught diddling the tax office.
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October 3rd, 2017 at 12:15 am
Thanks for this information. I signed the petition. Nothing that goes on in the U.S. surprises me. There was another mass shooting yesterday in Las Vegas. Companies like Monsanto and organizations like the NRA care nothing about people only money. This is a society of greed and profit.
It is fall in America and soon the nasty cold winter weather will be here. So soon we will fall back. Either way I still don’t get enough sleep.
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October 3rd, 2017 at 11:24 am
Thank you! And yes, we saw footage of that shooting on TV last night as well. It’s as if the crazies all over the world have been given permission to crawl out of the woodwork. 😦
Sympathy re the sleep.
I find that as I get older I can only average about 6.5 hours a night. But I need 8 to function properly. Ageing is a bitch.
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October 3rd, 2017 at 11:30 am
True. And we will never find out the motive since he killed himself. Guy had 16 assault weapons! Insanity!
As for the insomnia I blame menopause. At least I’m still alive so I can’t complain.
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October 3rd, 2017 at 8:29 pm
Yeah, military grade weapons in the hands of a…nut? psychopath? And the death toll is still rising apparently.
Wish I could offer some practical advice but all I can say is that it will end, eventually. -hugs-
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October 3rd, 2017 at 8:36 pm
Yes it will end once the NRA is rendered powerless. Sadly most of the politicians are in their back pockets. That’s why America doesn’t have strong uniform gun control laws. Even 14 year old kids can and have purchased assault weapons. It’s gotten to the point where there’s more chance of getting shot than dying of natural causes. I pray every time I leave my house.
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October 4th, 2017 at 8:08 am
I heard a statistic recently that absolutely floored me – apparently there is one gun for every single person in America. Given that babies can’t shoot, that is a horrifying average.
Re that ‘back pocket’ thing. I used to wonder why politicians would take bribes, but then I realised they were probably campaign ‘donations’ because you can’t get elected without a campaign worth squillions. I think that needs to be fixed somehow, then the power of the lobbyists will drop dramatically.
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October 2nd, 2017 at 2:55 pm
UGH! Will def. sign. Greed and underhanded tactics have no place in agriculture. Certainly a Bond villain without James Bond.
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October 3rd, 2017 at 11:26 am
Thanks DV. Btw, I absolutely LOVED the Last Deception. Imho, your very best one yet.
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October 2nd, 2017 at 2:13 am
I’m with you on both issues – Monsanto is evil and the time change (in either direction) absolutely vile!
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October 2nd, 2017 at 8:20 am
Amen 😦
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October 2nd, 2017 at 1:29 am
Reblogged this on Scotties Toy Box and commented:
Thank you Meeka for posting this.
I have read up on this issue and it concerns me. I really think if you have to suit up like an astronaut in a hostile to life space environment to use a chemical, that chemical doesn’t belong on our food. To me this seems an issue of a powerful company trying to force others to use their special brand of seed or they will kill off the competing crops. Seems like a strong arm criminal tacit to me. I signed the petition with the hopes it will do some good. Please take a look. Hugs
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October 2nd, 2017 at 1:27 am
This tactic is not new, even if the chemical is. Monsanto has been deliberately strafing the crops of organic farmers for years, killing everything they grow and bankrupting them. The worst part is, when challenged in court Monsanto wins every time. It’s agricultural terrorism.
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October 2nd, 2017 at 8:24 am
I know. The company is like some Bond villain but with no Bond to stop it. 😦
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October 3rd, 2017 at 2:36 am
The concept of poisoning the seed so that it can not be reproduced is beyond vile! Back in the 90s when the GMO atrocity first became known, one of the issues was that thousands of small farmers, in Mexico and other places, could no longer count on the seed from a previous corn crop. Indigenous growers who could take advantage of any tiny scrap of land, on mountain tops or along roadways, to grow corn for their own family use or to sell for operating money…found that income dried up.
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October 3rd, 2017 at 11:20 am
Yes, and Monsanto is still taking farmer to court for ‘growing’ gmo crops on their non-gmo fields…because the see blew in, was carried in by birds, animals etc.
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October 4th, 2017 at 1:14 am
those companies are evil…like the Banana Republics down in Central America…. we tend to beat those countries up when they need it 😉
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October 4th, 2017 at 7:53 am
I wish someone would beat Mon$anto up. 😦
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October 5th, 2017 at 1:44 am
haha… US companies have always tried to dominate all of Central and South America.
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October 5th, 2017 at 11:22 pm
😦
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October 6th, 2017 at 7:08 am
we dominate everyone and think its entitled to us by God. Actually to be fair it isn’t just the US, the old British Empire and the French, and the Spanish all had that grandeur entitlement. Humans are not nice by nature…unfortunately.
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October 6th, 2017 at 8:38 am
Yes, history shows us up for the domineering apes we really are. Society and culture are just a thin vineer. And yet we also have the capacity for true greatness.
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October 2nd, 2017 at 1:17 am
Where are the scruples these days?
Huge Hugs xxxx
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October 2nd, 2017 at 8:25 am
Scruples? I don’t think the top execs of Monsanto would know a scruple if it hit them in the face. 😦
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