Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
Geplaatst: 25-05-2010 18:00
Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
"A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto's seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation's presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
more at link:
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1969/1/
As poor and desperate as this country is... I have great respect for them in rising up against this.
When will we do the same?
"A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto's seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation's presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
more at link:
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1969/1/
As poor and desperate as this country is... I have great respect for them in rising up against this.
When will we do the same?