People Power! GMO Crop Sabotage on the Rise: French Citizens Destroy Trial Vineyard



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GMO grapevines destroyed



Speaking for the group, Olivier Florent told Le Figero that they condemned the use of public funds for open-field testing of GMOs "that we do not want."




In the late 1990s, Indian farmers burnt Bt cotton fields in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Monsanto did not disclose to farmers that the GM seeds were experimental. "Despite the heavy use of chemical fertilizer, traces of which still can be observed in the field, the Bt plants grew miserably, less than half the size of the traditional cotton plants in the adjacent fields."

After the Haiti earthquake this year, Monsanto offered 475 tons of hybrid corn and terminator vegetable seeds in partnership with USAID. In June, 10,000 Haitian farmers marched in protest of the "poison gift" which produces no viable seeds for future plantings and requires heavy chemical inputs. Haitian farm leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste observed that the biotech plan makes farmers dependent on multinational corporations.








Waakzaam's picture

Good to know that some people are just not taking it anymore.  It's true, TPTB have been ramming this thing without regard to its consequences or public opinion.  They seem to "know" that we are like sheep and we are here only to provide them with the means to which they've become accustomed.  They are mistaken.

What I don't understand is why Monsanto and the like are not being sued for contaminating clean fields?


(...) She also said the proliferation of roadside canola would make it difficult to keep organic canola free of genetically engineered material."






Francis's picture

for the update.  This is a subject near and dear to my heart.  My wife's mother, in association with someone in-the-know, is helping patients from around the world cure cancer and various other ailments through a simple change in diet bolstered by a regiment of herbal remedies.  It works and it's truly amazing.  Though, of course, they can't say they can "cure" cancer because that would get them thrown in jail (her friend's already been threatened upon trying to broadcast a show on public television).

This GMO stuff is a serious threat to such natural practices.  I agree with you Bob, we need to launch a campaign to sue Monsanto.  Maybe we could hire the lawyer that beat the FDA seven times in federal court. 

Jeffrey Smith, a man on the forefront of bringing the GMO issue to the public, once said that these Roundup ready crops, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup, begin producing the same chemical properties in our internal organs upon consumption, in essence turning our colons into a veritable toxic waste dump.  This may explain why the internal organs of animals have been found to be paper thin after a steady diet of GMO's as opposed to the pliable and elastic toughness found in animals eating non-GMO foods.  A bit of this is touched upon in this great article on one of the original GMO whistleblowers:

And for those who haven't found this valueable guide yet, I recommend downloading it and referring to it whenever possible:

Abundant health to you all,


ChrisBowers's picture

Sue Monsanto?  I have to believe that would play right into their plans for domination.  Can you imagine the deep pockets and legal team they have to do battle with on their turf?  With the FDA and WHO and most of the US Senate in their deep pockets?

I don't know how this plays out yet, but I suspect it will be some kind of mass outbreak of people and communities worldwide planting and growing their own food.  Sources will come out of the woodwork that frustrate the plans of the Monsantos of the world, wonderful foreward thinking people like Vandana Shiva (the seed lady) from India who said,

Vandana Shiva

What I am fairly sure of at this point is that combative plans that get entangled with Monsanto will fail.  Monsanto is just manifest proof that we are late to the party of taking our personal and collective response-ability sovereign power back.  Monsanto is not the enemy, only the symptom of our own abandoning of personal/collective sovereign inherently divine power, a pimple on the face of poor spiritual hygiene...

We cannot engage this despotic feudal profit-based system and expect to transform it from within the clockwork of its own very established service-to-shareholders insanity.  There will have to be the manifestation of something that essentially ignores the Monsantos while prospering at the new grass roots level method(s) working clearly outside the box.

Of course I cannot prove that this is the way it will ultimately transform and fade the Monsantos of the world.  I just suspect that it is something along these lines, and I fear the misappropriation of much sincere time and energy if we the people do not think/feel this through very very carefully...

Francis's picture

this is true too.  Thank you Chris for bringing my energies back into focus (yet again!  You have a magnificent way of doing that my friend!)  I feel the truth of your words and that we need to "be" the more positive change instead of the reactive and retalitory route.  Just my little lashing out at the ptb on a subject that hits my sensitive nerves. 


ChrisBowers's picture

I hear you loud and clear my friend.  I do not say these things because I have successfully accomplished and transcended what I am saying.  I say them because I haven't, and am sharing with others what I am reminding myself of.  We are being sorely tempted to be angry and hate and despise, and it is going to get worse before it gets better.

But what better way than to squeeze something to get to the precious nectar and fragrance from behind the hard outer skin of the fruit?  So goes the frequency and severity of catalyst coming our way on this ride that we all signed up for, to be here at this very exciting time of accelerated evolutionary transformation.

Here is a talk by one of my heroes concerning the subject of this excellent forum thread...

if you go to watch this video and it does not start automatically, scroll the time bar to the right and then back to the beginning.  don't know what it needs that, but it has been acting that way on a lot lately...

Wendy's picture

Being somewhat of a cynic I felt that our court system has become so corrupt that law suits will do us no good. Monsanto can't succeed if they can't sell their products. I agree that the answer is to create our own alternative societies, economic systems and currencies. This will bring about the change we seek.

On a personal happy note, my garden is doing spectacularly this year - we've had perfect weather - I spent the day today bringing in corn and soaking up sunshine. Tomorrow will be scallions, brocolli and peaches. Everything is producing wonderfully with no need for pesticides, no thanks Monsanto.

Francis - Thanks for your post - we are saving the peach pits to eat the insides (high in vit. B17) which is another wonderful cancer cure / preventative that the FDA says is poisonous-  more hogwash. Everyone in my family has at one time or another taken B17, myself and several of our pets. It has cured cancer in the pets, and certainly not poisoned us humans.

onesong's picture

from renegade health (a raw foods site by Kevin Gianni)...

As the news has broken about a massive 380 million egg
recall, two things have run though my mind...

First is this - of course this would happen.

It happens with beef, pork, chicken and just about
everything else animal that is raised in a factory farm.

How can we continue to be so foolish?

We all know what happens when you put animals in close

They get sick and infected.

I used to manage construction for a home rehab company.

We would deal with pre-foreclosures and other blighted

Every once in while, we would go into a home where the
owners had dozens of animals.

It just came with the territory.

When this was the case, we found that almost always the
place smelled awful, there was feces everywhere and
everyone - animals included - were sick.

What makes anyone think this is any different than
chickens laying eggs in a dark warehouse somewhere in

I wonder if the farmers ever think this isn't the way
it's supposed to be.

Their heads may be too far up their coop to realize it.

(I shouldn't even say "farmers" here, because these businesses don't
deserve that distinction.)

The second thing is this.

Who's going to be shut down, arrested and punished?

If this was a natural health supplement company, they'd
already be closed, owners arrested and being questioned
with little attention to their rights.

"How dare they threaten the health of the American public?"

It would be used in the media as an example of why natural
supplements don't work.

(Now, of course, if a supplement company doesn't regulate
their product and this happens they should be shut down.)

All this would happen even if one person became ill.

Not thousands.

But what about this case of 380 million eggs?

I wonder if anyone in the mainstream media will
effectively point the finger at factory farming as the
single cause of a recall like this.

Hardly likely.

The media will talk about the need to cook eggs thoroughly,
what foods may contain raw eggs to watch out for, they might
even talk about a rule or two the farm was lax on when
it comes to safety and hygiene...

This is what has happened in the past, so why would it be
any different now?

Right now the FDA is investigating rodent control at the
farm in Iowa where the tainted eggs were from.

This is like searching for fingerprints at the murder
scene when the killer is still in the room with a bloody

It's the whole operation that stinks, not the rodents.

They'll even encourage us to eat more eggs and resurrect
papers about how healthy they are just so the egg industry
doesn't suffer a huge loss.

It's deflection of the truth at the largest scale.

What the egg lobby and industry insiders will never do is
allow anyone to conclude that this all happened because of
the way the animals are raised.

It's not possible - for their own survival.

The politics and money are too great.

So as this unfolds, I hope I'm wrong and something actually
does happen. Maybe the company is shut down for good, the
owners are put in jail for endangering the American public
with their farm practices. Maybe it will change the way
farming is done in the U.S. and around the world.

It would be a long time coming.

Didn't Upton Sinclair write "The Jungle" in 1906?

~Blessed to have a partner with a really 'green thumb'....I'm in agreement with PLJ...feeling very grateful for the abundance of the 'fruit' of our labor even when I'm up to my eyeballs in homegrown tomatoes ~                kristyne 

Brian's picture

CNN had a segment today about the horrific conditions the hens endure in these factory "farms" where they are smooshed together into tight little cages that are then stacked up into little skyscrapers-it was disturbing and they didn't pull any punches...lot's of pictures/video and a knowledgable expert decrying the practice.

 Chris-thanks for the quote from the seed lady-I found this to be extremely heartening. I secretly feel some things are 'lost causes'  but which deserve my best and her talk reminded me of a great mindset to have-maybe the only workable mindset-for making change happen.

Very useful thread PLJ. Thanks.

Wendy's picture

I am with the Seed Lady.  I just focus on doing what I can do and let it all go to the wind.  Seeds plant themselves and rise up in the most unlikely ways.  The beauty of this is the virtual and real planting of our own gardens--- within ourselves and thus throughout and around ourselves... everywhere we go.

Opposition only inspires that which you do not want.  Refusal to particpate is another thing all together.

I do my best to avoid purchasing GMO's in my food, clothes etc.  I am not achieving perfection in this but it is a start.  It is 1 Step.  And as I am able I take the next 1 Step.  Nothing can be achieved through cynism or blaming or shaming.  All that is around us is an outlinking of what "We the People" of the world have created.  All creations can be changed with effort, focus, attention, Love, and vision. 



In the Fields of Italy, a Conflict Over Corn



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Wendy's picture

Thanks FFg-

We planted corn the last 2-3 years. Last year we had a terrible infestation of the corn borer and I assumed since we always grow organic that this year would be just as terrible, but it wasn't at all. Whatever eats those critters is doing it's job so I've only seen a few worms this year.


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