[UrbanCropCircle] Break Up Monsanto

[Susan Helf]

Edith,
Good message. We can also boycott Monsanto by not buying seeds sold by
Territorial
that are produced by Seminis, a wholly-owned subsidairy of Monsanto.

Susan Helf

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Edith Kusnic <ejkusnic at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  You may already know about Food Democracy Now! and have gotten the
> request described below.  If so, I apologize for the duplication.  If not, I
> thought you might want to know.
>
> Edith
>
>
> Dear Friend,
>
>
> For far too long Monsanto has been able to control important market access
> for family farmers. Today their power has grown too great, they own more
> than 90% of the GMO seed genetics in the world and this is having a harmful
> impact on farmer's right to choose what type of seeds they want to plant and
> how American consumers want their food produced. Monsanto's excessive market
> share harms farmers, the environment, innovation and our democracy. It's
> time to Break Up Monsanto!
>
>
> Last year the Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Agriculture held
> a series of 5 workshops investigating anti-competitive practices in the food
> and agricultural sectors. Nowhere are these abuses more prevalent than in
> the extreme market share enjoyed by the seed and chemical company Monsanto,
> which has a virtual stranglehold on seed supplies in crucial sectors that
> has severely limited farmer’s choice in what traits they can buy. Monsanto’s
> control of the seed market is so high that 93% of soybeans, some 82% of
> corn, 93% of cotton and 95% of sugar beets grown in the U.S. contain
> Monsanto’s patented genes.
>
>
> During the 2008 campaign, President Obama promised to deal with the worst
> monopoly abusers in agriculture. Well now is the time!
>
>
> Please join us in telling Department of Justice that it's time to Break Up
> to Monsanto today!
>
>
> Let them know that you care about organic integrity by following this link
> from Food Democracy Now!, then please pass this on. Please join me in
> telling President Obama that it's time to stand up to Monsanto and reject
> these GMO crops today!
>
>
>
> http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/update_obama_goes_rogue_on_gmos/?referring_akid=303.27033.jaodyO&source=mailto
>
>
> Every voice counts!
>
>
> Thank you!
>
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