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[mariaandrea]

We already have a great thread on GMOs here: http://www.altenergy...suicide__st__20 where Shortpoet mentions the suicides of Indian famers, but there's an article in the Daily Mail that everyone should read and I think this merits its own thread. The losses are staggering and the evil of Monsanto is appalling. In on area:

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For official figures from the Indian Ministry of Agriculture do indeed confirm that in a huge humanitarian crisis, more than 1,000 farmers kill themselves here each month.

]Farmers are lured into buying GMO seeds that are significantly more expensive than traditional seeds and are basically promised miracle crops that will make them rich. They're told they won't need pesticides. They take out loans from moneylenders (we don't have anything like the rural moneylenders in India, not even our banks and pawnshops are that rapacious). Pests and drought have destroyed the crops, leaving farmers in debt so deep there's literally no way out. So, by the thousands, they drink insecticide to commit suicide, dying a painful death, leaving grieving families behind who are still saddled with debt and children who are now doomed to a life of near slavery and grinding poverty.

]Because of Monsanto and its lies.

]The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops

And, by the way, if anyone wants a gentle but heartbreaking introduction to rural life and poverty in India, read "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya. It was written in the 50s but very little has changed in some areas of India.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

This statement may get me in trouble, but imo, monsanto (and dow, basf among others) are hitler incarnate.
Extinction.
Just look at the numbers regarding bees for instance.
Food, Inc. (the documentary) has shown that farmers (here in the us-but other places as well) are slaves
to monsanto and their "legal teams of vampires." and farmers cannot fight back. Or if they try, they
lose everything, and go bankrupt.
That's why I post so many new posts to the other gmo thread. People have GOT TO WAKE UP
to this insanity.
And lowe's and home depot are still advertising their products-roundup among others.
Thanks for the post.

[Sandra Piddock]

I found this very difficult to read, but I did read it, and I became more and more angry, especially as the Monsanto guys insinuated that one of the suicides was a drunkard, and that his death had nothing to do with the crop failure. Then they said that suicide had always been a problem in rural India. It's criminal that they can cause such disruption to so many lives and then lie their way out of it, just because they can.

[ACSAPA]

Everything about this article is disgusting. I don't know how people who work for Monsanto can even sleep at night. Surely there must be other jobs out there. How can anyone work for a company that causes this much misery?

Please excuse my glaring ignorance but what other brand name products does Monsanto make besides Round Up?
I'd like to not buy anything they sell at Home Depot, ever.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

http://foodfreedomgr...2012/04/28/428/

http://indianinthema...while-shopping/

http://theczech.file...jpg?w=490&h=692

In answer to your above question-it could be human trafficing too. Working long hours, little pay.
Obama spoke of it at Clintons global conference.
http://slaveryfootprint.org/

[Hardison]

This is indeed very disgusting indeed. It reminds me of the sharecroppers following slavery and the passing down of debt to future generations. I would rather be on public assistance than work for a company like Monsanto. Forget about sleeping,  how do they even look at themselves in the mirror?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Hardison, on 26 September 2012 - 11:58 AM, said:

This is indeed very disgusting indeed. It reminds me of the sharecroppers following slavery and the passing down of debt to future generations. I would rather be on public assistance than work for a company like Monsanto. Forget about sleeping,  how do they even look at themselves in the mirror?

We cannot blame the workers.
We, the consumers keep buying their toxins.

And if they are in sweatshop type conditions, why is it tolerated?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Quarter of a MILLION
farmer suicides in India in the past 16 years; all related to gmo seeds/monsanto's stranglehold on their
livelihoods.

And how do many of them do it?
By DRINKING the insecticide that monsanto supplied them with.

That is a horror.

Article

Also-
Don't forget to check these other threads too. Some folks post to the others, some to this one.

It doesn't matter what thread, as long as we know information is on any/all of them.

Thanks everyone for keeping these threads going. monsanto is horrendous and must be stopped.
http://www.altenergy...os/page__st__40

http://www.altenergy...__20#entry21086

[Hardison]

Shortpoet-GTD, on 26 September 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

We cannot blame the workers.
We, the consumers keep buying their toxins.

And if they are in sweatshop type conditions, why is it tolerated?

I don't blame the workers. I just could never work there.
Years ago, I was sent on a temp job to a tobacco company that shall remain nameless. The agency didn't tell me that name of the company.  Apparently, they were having problems getting workers. I only lasted an hour there. It was so surreal.