World Protest Against Monsanto.

 
 Paris France.

      Think of an event where millions take to the streets in 436 cities in 52 different countries and you would imagine that it would be a good story for that babbling brook of bullshit, our mainstream media. Well that's what happened as people across the world demonstrated against that corporate beast Monsanto and yet hardly a ripple disturbs that steady flow of bullshit from those corporate organs of propaganda that pass for media.

 
Munich Germany

    It would seem that only Russia Today gave any real coverage to this event where people are showing their anger and disgust at the way the corporate world manipulates our food for profit and certainly not for our wellbeing.

Melbourne Australia.

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WHO CONTROLS GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD?

        The field of genetically-modified food needs to be under the control of the people who will end up eating it, not the corporations who stand to gain millions of pounds from forcing it onto our tables. It is an uncharted area and those who stand to get rich by it should not be in the decision making of its suitability for human consumption.

This from SumOfUs:  

        A recent French study of Monsanto genetically-modified corn has turned up shocking and disturbing images of rats weighed down with disgusting tumors the size of golf balls. The two-year study found that rats fed Monsanto’s NK603 corn developed more tumors and severe diseases than a control group fed natural corn.

        France has twice banned the corn from its country, but twice has seen that ban overturned by the European Food Safety Authority, most recently in May. According to the EFSA, it is because "there is no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment" to support a ban. But the results of this new study are too big to ignore, and with our help the EU might finally listen. Russia has already banned the product, and the European Union should be next in line to protect consumers.

Tell EU GMO Head Elisabeth Waigmann to support a ban of GMO NK603 corn.

         Monsanto and other GMO companies have an enormous amount of lobbying power, but through direct citizen-consumer action, we can get our own voices heard, and have an enormous impact. Speaking up with the combined power of our voices, members of SumOfUs.org are able to counterbalance some of the biggest corporations in the world. Together, we are building a healthier, safer world.

Thank you,

-Paul, Claiborne and the rest of us

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Further information:

Food and Chemical Toxicology: Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize, 19 September, 2012

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CORPORATE FASCISM, OWNER OF LANGUAGE??

        An interesting article from Corporatewatch, that shows the absurd levels the corporate world will go to to restrict freedom in an attempt to stop any form of competition, criticism, and take control, of anything from which they believe they can make money. How do you own an adjective which describes so many things, are the words we use to be controlled by the corporate world? If ever there was a need for proof that we have entered the era of corporate fascism, then this is it. 

         In an almost surreal corporatisation of politics, and language, a corporate media group has brought us one step closer to the outright ownership of everything by trademarking the phrase
'radical media'. @Radical Media LLC has litigated against Peace News, New Internationalist, Red Pepper and other radical media groups using the phrase in the title of a joint conference to be held in London in October 2011. Six months into organising the conference, the organising group received a threatening legal letter from the media corporation objecting to the 'unlicensed' use of the term. The organisers decided they could not fight the challenge because, even if they won in court, they would have had to pay around 75% of the court costs, amounting to tens of thousands of pounds. The conference will now be called the Rebellious Media Conference

(see www.radicalmediaconference.org).

          In eerie echoes of Monsanto's seed patenting strategy and the corporate ownership of rain water in South America, @Radical Media has essentially taken it upon itself to earmark a resource, here language, which people already use, then punish them for 'stealing it'. In a statement, the conference organisers said "it is absurd that people involved in genuinely radical media projects are being prevented from using the adjective that best describes their activities". This paves the way for a bizarre dystopian future in which companies buy the political language that is used in resistance against them, then have dissenters dragged through court for nicking 'their' phrase.

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