Let's re-visit Monsanto shall we
A few years ago the German pharmaceutical/agrochemical company bought Monsanto (and their abundant lawsuits) for a whopping $63 billion.
The Canadian government approved this merger in 2018.
At that time, Bayer owned 33% of the global seed market and 23% of the agrochemical market.
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Canada’s Decision to Allow Monsanto’s Mega-Merger with Bayer Worries Farmers, Environmental Groups.
- April 18, 2017 five legal experts delivered their advisory opinion in the International Monsanto Tribunal. The Tribunal heard testimony from 28 witnesses from across the world and concluded that Monsanto has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to health, and that Monsanto’s conduct is negatively affecting the right to freedom indispensible for scientific freedom. The Tribunal also assessed that international law should assert the protection of the environment and the crime of ecocide and concluded that, “if such a crime of ecocide were recognized in international criminal law, the activities of Monsanto could possibly constitute a crime of ecocide. Several of the company’s activities may fall within this infraction such as…the large-scale use of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture; and the engineering, production, introduction and release of genetically engineered crops.”
In the 1980s, Monsanto began to transform itself from a chemical company into a seed company buy acquiring several other small and large seed companies, and investing a large amount of money into genetic engineering for seeds, in particular into developing herbicide-tolerant crops that were paired with its own glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup. In 1998, Monsanto bought DeKalb Genetics Corporation, which accounted for about 11% of U.S. corn seed sales that year; in 2005, it bought the world’s largest vegetable and fruit seed company, Seminis; in 2006 it bought another six US seed companies.
From 2005 – 2018, Monsanto was the world’s largest seed company. It controlled most of the genetically engineered seed technology on the market and sold the top selling global herbicide formulation called Roundup (glyphosate). Monsanto also owned the patent and research on Terminator Technology (since Monsanto bought the company Delta & Pine Land in 2006)
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Terminator seeds are genetically engineered to be sterile after first harvest.
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https://cban.ca/gmos/issues/terminator-technology/
I have not yet seen if these 'suicide seeds' have been legally used in any country.
Brazil was being taken to courts by Monsato to try overturning their ban on these seeds, but that was a few years ago and I have not researched that yet to find out the outcome.
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Report Exposes Unstudied Risks of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified “SmartStax” Corn
EU Members State critiques and leaked industry documents uncover safety questions
Ottawa, June 28, 2011. German group Testbiotech today released a critical new report that exposes unstudied questions in confidential industry documents from Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences on their genetically modified (GM) eight-trait corn called “SmartStax”, approved in Canada in 2009.
The GM SmartStax corn produces six different insecticidal toxins and is tolerant to two herbicides. It was allowed onto the market in Canada without a safety evaluation from Health Canada
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https://cban.ca/report-exposes-unstudied-risks-of-monsantos-genetically-modified-smartstax-corn-2/
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Health risks of Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup
From the Greenpeace International Report July 2011: Herbicide tolerance and GM crops
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in many herbicides sold across the world, including Monsanto’s formulation brand “Roundup” which is twinned with its GM Roundup Ready crops.
Independent scientific studies are underscoring the call for an urgent reassessment of glyphosate and its related products. These studies associate exposure to glyphosate with a number of negative effects on human and animal health, including long term or chronic effects:
Birth defects in the Argentinean state of Chaco, where GM soya and rice crops are heavily sprayed with glyphosate, increased nearly fourfold over the years 2000 to 2009. Similar defects were also found in woman from Paraguay exposed to glyphosate-based herbicides during pregnancy. These defects were compatible with those induced in laboratory experiments at much lower concentrations than normal commercial glyphosate concentrations.
Glyphosate is a suspected endocrine disruptor. This means it could disrupt production of vital reproductive hormones, such as progesterone and oestrogen. Published studies demonstrate various endocrine effects in animals and human cells associated with glyphosate.
Studies of illness patterns human populations (epidemiological studies) have linked glyphosate exposure to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (a type of blood cancer) whilst laboratory studies have confirmed that glyphosate and/or its associated products exhibit characteristics typical of cancer causing agents (i.e. genotoxicity or mutagenicity) in animals and both human and animal. Together, these studies suggest that glyphosate may contribute to cancer. Evidence that glyphosate may also affect the nervous system and may even be implicated in Parkinson’s disease.
June 2011: Roundup and birth defects,
The report concludes that industry and European regulators knew as long ago as the 1980s that Roundup, the world’s best selling herbicide, causes birth defects but they failed to inform the public.
Authored by a group of international scientists and researchers. Published: Earth Open Source, June 2011
The report shows:
-Industry (including Monsanto) has known from its own studies since the 1980s that glyphosate causes malformations in experimental animals at high doses.
-Industry has known since 1993 that these effects also occur at lower and mid doses.
-The German government has known since at least 1998 that glyphosate causes malformations.
-The EU Commission’s expert scientific review panel knew in 1999 that glyphosate causes malformations.
-The EU Commission has known since 2002 that glyphosate causes malformations. This was the year it signed off on the current approval of glyphosate.
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Lawsuits: Monsanto vs. Farmers
1998 – 2004: Monsanto took Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser to court alleging infringement of the company’s patent rights over its genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) Roundup Ready glyphosate-tolerant canola. Monsanto’s GM canola was found in Schmeiser’s field but he had never paid for the right to grow it, and he said the seeds blew onto his field in the wind. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada which, in a 5-4 decision (2004), ruled that Percy was guilty of having Monsanto’s patented genetic sequence in canola on his land, and of not having advised Monsanto to come and remove the GM plants. The court held that Monsanto had the right to their patented genetic material, even though the company could not prove how it got onto the farm. In this case, the courts were not ruling on the question of liability for accidental contamination. The case did, however, confirm that the patent over a genetic sequence applies to the whole organism that hosts it.
2005: Report: Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers, Center for Food Safety. Monsanto has filed 90 lawsuits against American farmers in 25 states that involve 147 farmers and 39 small businesses or farm companies. Monsanto has set aside an annual budget of $10 million dollars and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and prosecuting farmers.
2009: Monsanto has sued four Ontario farmers for saving and reusing Monsanto’s patented herbicide tolerant soybeans called Roundup Ready. Not only did the courts rule that the farmers must pay Monsanto any profits they derived from growing the soybeans, they must also pay a significant portion of Monsanto’s costs for taking them to court — amounts ranging from $9,000 to $63,000 per individual. As well, the four farmers are among the first to be confronted with Monsanto’s new “Violator Exclusion Policy”. They will be placed on an “Unauthorized Grower List” and denied all access to Monsanto’s current and future technologies forever. Monsanto calls this “Seed Piracy.”
2011: Over 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations in Canada and the US, including Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds Ltd. of Parkside Saskatchewan in Canada, filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Company to challenge the chemical giant’s patents on genetically modified (GM) seed. The plaintiffs were forced to sue pre-emptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should they ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s GM seed. The farmers did not win this case.
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https://cban.ca/farmers-and-seed-distributors-sue-monsanto-to-protect-themselves-from-patents-on-genetically-modified-seed/
2013: The U.S. Supreme Court in Bowman vs. Monsanto unanimously ruled that farmers cannot replant patented genetically engineered (GE) seed as it violates licensing agreements. This means that farmers must pay industry giants like Monsanto for seed each growing season, sealing the agribusiness giant’s quest to fundamentally alter the nature of farming. This ruling is a blow to farmers who have been persecuted by Monsanto for ‘trespassing’ on patent rights due to saving seed or the contamination of fields by genetic drift of GE material.
November 23, 2010: University students protest new $12 million Monsanto Canola Breeding Centre at the University of Manitoba.
July 2010: Monsanto joins BASF for GM (Genetically Modified) wheat development.
May 17 2010: Monsanto plant in The Netherlands shut down by activists,
Forty people chained themselves to the entrance gate at the wake of day and prevented personnel from entering the office buildings and greenhouses.
March 2010: For the first time anywhere in the world, biotech agriculture giant Monsanto has admitted that insects have developed resistance to its Bt (insect resistant) cotton crop.
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One more interesting fact, and Fox News tried hiding this story when it was found out and even tried bribing their investigative reporters into not reporting this to the public.
And by the way, this drug was designed to boost milk production at a time that there was already too much milk on the market. I could never guess why they were even doing this , except for possibly nefarious reasons.
In August 2008 Monsanto sold its controversial and widely rejected recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH), a genetically engineered veterinary drug designed to boost milk production in dairy cows, to pharmaceutical company Eli Lily. Rejected in 1999 by regulatory agencies in Canada, BGH is still used in the United States.
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https://tomazgreco.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/fox-news-cover-up-of-bovine-growth-hormone-story/
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Okay after reading all of that ... now for the best part.
I have a video for yous to watch. It is from a Doctor, a good Doctor and teamed up with illustrator 'After Skool' :)
Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems.
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https://rumble.com/voqrzc-chemical-farming-and-the-loss-of-human-health-dr.-zach-bush.html
Not a wonder the likes of Bill Gates has been buying up all of the Farmland in the USA and elsewhere :eek:
