Feb 9, 2010) When it arrives at the warehouses the grain is tested and identified as GMO or non-GMO. The problem occurs when, in many cases, conventional oleaginous seeds are contaminated and the growers end up having to pay royalties [to Monsanto] without having acquired any GMO seeds in the first place.

War against Monsanto
Marcondes Maciel and Tania Rauber
Diario de Cuiaba [Brazil], 29 January 2010
http://www.diariodecuiaba.com.br

• In Cuiaba, Aprosoja is preparing a court action against Monsanto, and in Sinop, steps are being taken to follow suit

[English translation courtesy Cert ID Brazil and GM-free Ireland]

Growers in [the Brazilian State of] Mato Grosso have declared war against Monsanto, the multinational corporate owner of the GMO soya technology known as RR (Roundup Ready).

After exhausting all attempts to engage the company in dialogue, the growers are now considering legal action. In Cuiaba, Aprosoja (the Association of Soya and Corn Producers Association of the State of Mato Grosso) is preparing a lawsuit.

In Sinop (500km North of Cuiaba) the growers are looking to sue the company as well.

Aprosoya wants to determine if the [patent] royalty fee paid by the soya growers is actualy due. "We want to know what sort of patent is generating this type of fee, because depending on the type, the company does not have the right to charge us anything at all. We also need to know thepatent's validity period," explains the President of Aprosoja, Mr. Glauber Silveira.

In Mato Grosso, growers increased the cultivated area of GMOs from 2.6 million hectares (2008/09 crop) to approximately 3 million hectares in this year's crop. The expansion of the area will increase Monsanto's profit from R$39 million (*15.2m) to R$45 million (*15.6m), an increase of 15.38%. According to calculations made by the producers, the fee Monanto charged for the use of itspatent amounts to R$15.00 (*5.85) per hectare.

Aprosoja intends to issue a notification demanding that Monsanto provide proper justification regarding the royalty fees. "We have been informed that Monsanto is inducing the seed producers of Mato Grosso to provide only GMO seeds", denounces Mr. Silveira. In Mato Grosso the GMO plantation now occupies half of the entire cultivated area of soya, comprising about 6 million hectares.

SINOP - Following several meetings without any positive results, the Sinop Rural Union is also planning to sue Monsanto. Approximately 50% of the crop fields in the Northern Region of Mato Grosso are currently cultivated with GMO varieties. These differ from the conventional because of their resistance to herbicides containing glyphosate, used in desiccation before and after planting to eliminate all kinds of weeds.

This kind of resistance enables the growers to apply the herbicide on the soya only, thus reducing their production costs and the number of herbicide applications. But the sectors' questions concern the royalty fees imposed by Monsanto for their use of the seed.

The president of the Union, Mr. Antônio Galvan, explained that two collections are made: The first one being when the seed is bought (by bank order). "In January they charged R$0.45 per kilo of seed, which is equivalent to 30% of the price of each sack.

The main questioning lies on the second collection which is made when the product is leaving the fields. When it arrives at the warehouses the grain is tested and identified as GMO or non-GMO. The problem occurs when, in many cases, conventional oleaginous seeds are contaminated and the growers end up having to pay royalties without having acquired any GMO seeds in the first place.

This contamination occurs in the fields by means of pollination or at the time of planting, as well as at the time of stocking the harvest. "Cross pollination may take place if there's a field of GMO soya next to a Non-GMO one at flowering time. Contamination can also take place if the machines are not well cleaned at harvest time, and some GMO beans remain. In this way, they will be considered GMO when they are tested".

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles..._20196.cfm

I pray that company falls before this planet is desroyed.

Anonymous Coward  Wrote:

I pray that company falls before this planet is desroyed.

God Bless you for praying for that which is good, noble and just.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment...12179.html

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows.

The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6254

Study Released in Argentina Puts Glyphosate Under Fire
The study in Argentina is not the only research concluding that the number one selling herbicide may be harmful to human health. Gilles-Eric Seralini, professor at the University of Caen and specialist in molecular biology, led a study that concluded the herbicides in the Round Up Ready package causes cells to die in human embryos.

"Even in doses diluted a thousand times, the herbicide could cause malformations, miscarriages, hormonal problems, reproductive problems, and different types of cancers," said Dr. Seralini.

I cannot eat GMO since tastes like refuse.

Monsanto needs shunning. We need to shut down like mules around them.

I refuse wheat for now. That's how to be sure anyhow...refusing.
I refuse corn.
I refuse soy.
I'm not big on potatoes.
I know your able to purchase organic etc etc.
Organic has pewning by big name brands too or has been infiltrated so that's too many extra thoughts for me.
I'll use squash like grain.
These are personal sacrifices due to how I shop and grow.

Here here !
Down with the borg.
Anonymous Coward  Wrote:

I pray that company falls before this planet is desroyed.

WAR

Corn and Soy are unhealthy components.

OMEGA 6 vs OMEGA 3

Analyze and retaliate.

Food is WAR

I avoid GMO foods and have been warned people about them since they came out.

even without genetic modification corn and soy as utilized in mass consumption results in unfavorable outcomes

Seems like a nice big class action suit against Monsanto might be in order.

Something like, the population of Earth vs. Monsanto.

Seeking damages for their GMO pollen polluting our crops and infecting the food chain. I would say 100,000,000,000,000 USD in damages should do the trick.

What makes me sick is not even the fact that Monstanto's GM is wrecking the world but that there's a need for a "war" against it.
Common sense should be enough for those things to stop by itself but no... the need to strip people from their natural surrounding and enclosure them in a false, virtual economic slavery is much larger than anything else.
Sickening.

Monsanto as well as other corporate entities have learned that power is more profitable than the free markets. Monsanto runs the FDA and controls the politicians.

Uncover the top tier that are responsible for Monsanto and focus on bringing them to Justice!

YES!

Wow my first pin at lop! I am glad it is a pin on a topic such as this.

India has been fighting GM seeds, but due to their World Trade Org. Membership they could not keep Monsatan out. Same with the USA... The world. Goes to show you that real nation states sovereignty is subjected to the beast. You cannot buy or sell without...

Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide


Please pray (if you pray) that we can escape the harms of this stuff. It is control over the bread baskets of the world. If you cannot see the big picture in this then what are you doing at a place like this? Total Global control within a generation is the aim and they are working double time to see that they achieve their aims. Oh yeah the Devil is alive and afoot. Make no mistake. God Bless you!