Five million Brazilian farmers Sue Monsanto and Win $2 Billion

by Subodh Varma
The Times of India

Five million Brazilian farmers have taken on US based biotech company Monsanto through a lawsuit demanding return of about 6.2 billion euros taken as royalties from them. The farmers are claiming that the powerful company has unfairly extracted these royalties from poor farmers because they were using seeds produced from […]

How GMOs Cause Farmer Suicide

 

By Dr. Mercola
It’s been called the “largest wave of recorded suicides in human historyi.”

Indian farmers have been robbed of their livelihoods, causing them to take their own lives in despair.

Over the past 16 years, it is estimated that more than a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide.

Who is responsible for this […]

Farmers Determined to Defend Right to Grow Food File Appeal in OSGATA vs. Monsanto

NEW YORK – March 28, 2012 – Today, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, family farmers filed their Notice of Appeal to Judge Naomi Buchwald’s February 24th ruling dismissing Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto.  The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear the farmers’ appeal, […]

Dr. Oz Discusses the Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods on TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K6tplfa2HBc

Dr. Oz assembled a panel of experts, both pro and con, to discuss the issue of genetically modified food. While banned in many countries around the world, over 80% of the U.S. supply of corn, soy, and canola is genetically modified, with little or no safety tests required. Monsanto, the world’s main producer of […]

Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France

by Dr. Mercola
Most people do not realize that genetically engineered foods were only approved in the U.S. because the FDA hid 40,000 documents indicating their extreme toxicity.

Countries around the globe are making it increasingly clear that they’re not going to continue to let Monsanto abuse the health of their people […]

USDA Decides the Current Rush to Rubber-Stamp GMO Foods Is Too Slow!

by Alliance for Natural Health
And who’s siding with Monsanto? Phony “food safety advocates” masquerading as political progressives.
In an attempt to cut already too rapid approval times for genetically engineered seeds in half, the US Department of Agriculture will, under forthcoming rules (expected in March), give GE seed companies—including the Monsanto […]

Judge Sides With Monsanto: Ridicules Farmers’ Right to Grow Food Without Fear, Contamination and Economic Harm

Monsanto’s Control Over the Federal Government. Click to expand.
from Mercola.com

by Jim Gerritsen
Wood Prairie Farm

New York, New York – On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of […]

Intense Lobbying Efforts Aim to Keep Americans in the Dark about GM Foods

by Dr. Mercola
The food and agriculture biotechnology industry has spent more than $572 million in campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures in just over a decade, according to an analysis by Food & Water Watch. Key among the goals of this intense lobbying effort is to prevent GM food labeling and keep Americans […]

Local organic seed growers take on Monsanto in federal court

By Susan Andrew
Mountain Xpress
Carol Koury, owner of Asheville’s Sow True Seed, joined some 82 other farmers, advocacy groups, and seed companies as part of a class action lawsuit brought in federal court today, Jan. 31, in New York. The Organic Seed Grower and Trade Association and others are taking on […]

India Sues Monsanto for Bio Piracy

By Vikram Singh

For the first time ever, a country – India – is accusing a multinational company of “bio-piracy”. That means stealing indigenous plants, and then trying to develop genetically modified versions of them, without giving any compensation back to the local people or nation where the plant originally came […]