I stole this from a post on CafeMom. It is unedited :)
Imagine this: You have a garden from which your family gets most of it's food. One year, in Spring when you plant the seeds you saved from harvest, they simply do not geminate, they do not grow. You try your other seeds, and half of them are dead, they simply won't germinate, no sprout, no plant, no food, no life. Imagine that this takes over and everyone begins to have these issues; their seeds won't grow. Soon you hear yourself saying to your child, "No honey you cannot grow that seed from the orange you ate, seeds don't grow anymore unless we buy them from the store."
The story is about a farmer who fought with Monsanto. It illustrates how the above scenerio is very likely to happen if we do not stop the current way we produce our food. This does not only impact the producers, it impacts those who eat the food as well.
Most poingnantly our children's health and their children's health is linked to how we produce food. Chemicals and hormones in meat and dairy are alarming. Growing cancer and birth defects are a result amongst other issues with toxicity. For example, non-organic strawberries have so much chemical on and in them that most of them are toxic when tested.
Monsanto is in the business of creating Terminator seeds, which have a gene in them that prevents the seeds collected from harvest from ever germinating again. Not only does this force farmers to continue buying seeds, there is another layer of horror: these seeds easily cross pollinate with other seeds and render them infertile as well. So if you are a next door neighbor, and you do not buy the Terminator seed, you are still termiated. What kind of future do you envision with this information?
Do you know that already, these genetically modified seeds have altered our ecosystems around the world to a detrimental and horrible extent? For example, just from the top of my head, in Hawaii, almost all non GMO mangos have completely been wiped out. This allows only one type of mango to grow there, one that has less nutrition and wipes out a variety of different species of mango and other companion plants, which work symbiotically together.
Already our food supply has been contaminated just with cross pollination with Monsanto seeds. Many farmers' livelihood, built over generations, have been completely destroyed because Monsanto sued them after they contaminated their fields. It is amazing and crazy.
Many people do not know about Monsanto. Yet, it has a large impact on our lives. It is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It owns an obscene amount of land all over the world. They produce agricultural products amonst other things. They take chemicals and mix them up to make the things that nature already provides. They make things like hormones that are injected into cows so they produce more milk, pesticides like Roundup, genetically modified organism (GMO) seeds which they can engineer to act certain ways. All of these products disrupt the ecosystem and that is very very bad for our children's health.
Corporate media, all the news we watch basically, do not touch Monsanto because if they do, Monsanto will not sponsor their programs. That is the problem with corporate news.
Even NPR, to a large extent is funded by them so the public does not hear anything about Monsanto unless it sounds positive. If you know about Monsanto, you must make others become aware of it.
Please watch this story about a Canadian farmer who was sued by Monsanto and then threatened. This is the story of many small farmers, many many American farmers as well.
Their GMO products ruin the environment by reducing biological diversity and decreasing the strength of the ecosystem to protect itself from disease such as H1N1.
Please watch this story (not funded by powerful giant corporations) from democracynow.org the largest independent daily news program in America and around the world. You will become familiar with so much that is valuable to know if you want to have a hand in creating a better future for your children.
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