Monsanto…….when will the courts move to stop this threat to the world food supply

By Marti Oakley © copyright 2010 All Rights reserved

The idea that the contamination world-wide from genetically altered crops seems never to end;  Monsanto employees, both current and former now residing in specially created offices in the Obama Administration and at least one former Monsanto attorney holding a seat on the Supreme Court it would appear the deck is stacked against not only farmers, but also consumers.

Although three lower courts have struck down Monsanto’s appeals to have GE Alfalfa approved for use, it appears an appeal to the Supreme Court scheduled for April 27, 2010 could pave the way for the use of what is widely viewed as the greatest threat to natural crops in decades.

Monsanto appealed the court decision that suspended the 2005 approval of the GE alfalfa.  In 2007 a federal district court ordered Monsanto to halt planting of GE Alfalfa as no environmental impact studies had been performed. Monsanto naturally assumed that because it was Monsanto, no questions would be asked and no efforts would be considered to halt its planting of yet another invasive and aggressive genetically altered crop. 

As always, Monsanto has not conducted any studies to determine if the crops produced from their Frankenseeds could be controlled.  In fact, the intent is, to make sure the crops cannot be controlled allowing them to spread far and wide through natural processes.   This allows Monsanto to sue unsuspecting crop growers who have had the misfortune of having the aggressive plants invade their traditional crops, contaminating them with aggressive and adulterated genes that Monsanto claims is an infringement on their intellectual property rights; and there goes the farm and everything with it.  The courts routinely rule in favor of Monsanto claiming it is the fault of the independent crop grower that Monsanto frankenplants invaded their property.

Just a note:  If my dog runs over into the neighbors yard and bites them….who is at fault?  Is it the neighbor who was outside his home?  Or was it me for letting my dog roam unattended?

If Monsanto plants a crop that they have intentionally created to be aggressive and to spread uncontrollably into neighboring fields contaminating a natural crop……is the farmer to blame for the contamination?  Or is Monsanto, for failing to develop or exercise any control over the crops they intentionally grew to be aggressive? 

According to courts all over the country…..it is the farmer who is at fault.  And this is what money and political clout will buy you in the courts of the United States.

Having the courts firmly in their pockets, Monsanto has been assured the complete takeover of agricultural crops.  It must have come as a huge set back for three courts to rule against them and prevent the planting of yet another uncontrollable seed crop.  Monsanto is determined to have GE Alfalfa on US markets this year, and Monsanto is also suing in Canada to plant these same invasive species of unnatural plants there.

Canada has mounted a massive campaign to fight back against the use of Monsanto’s GE Alfalfa citing the collapse of their export markets as the EU refuses to allow the unnatural grains into the Union. The canola crops in Canada are now virtually all contaminated with aggressive GE traits which have spread like wildfire through traditional crops causing these crops to be rejected for export.

Here in the US the USDA, now headed by Tom Vilsack, named the biotech governor of the year during his tenure as Iowa’s governor, is sure to continue the short-circuiting of hearings that would impact farmers and consumers, much less any sound scientific evidence about the effects of GE foods on the human body and most assuredly will not entertain any thoughts about the contamination of soil and water as increasing levels of herbicides and pesticides are required to obtain the same effects of previous years.  Soil in many areas has become so toxic from the over use of chemicals that the land has been rendered fallow and unusable for crops.

While Monsanto claims its purposes are the insuring of the rights of farmers to have a choice in products, they routinely fail to mention that the choice will be which of Monsanto’s deadly seeds will be available to choose from.  And of course…..no seed saving or cleaning allowed.  (I think this is what they did to Iraq, isn’t it?)

USDA has not commissioned even one study to determine the ill effects of gmo tainted food on the human body and to internal organs nor has it reviewed any of the numerous studies surfacing from scientific communities around the world of the horrendous effects of gmo on the worlds populations.  To do so would put USDA in a precarious position; a major source of corporate profits is secured in the biotech industry with Monsanto leading the way in stuffing the USDA coffers.

I still ask the question that I have been asking for more than three years:  If the gmo seeds are the answer to the worlds food production……why are none of them included in the Artic Seed Vault?  You know…that dooms day vault containing all the NATURAL seeds that can be collected in the event the end of the world does occur.  The fact that no gmo is allowed in the vault should be a big red flag to everyone that what we are being sold as the answer to the worlds food supply may not be what we think it is.