Demonstration Against Monsanto Week

American activists have called for a week of direct action against Monsanto – the largest company pushing GM technology onto the world.

This week has been selected because this is the main meeting for shareholders in the biotech industry.

UK update… The well renowned Indian activist Vandana Shiva states that “The whole world is watching what is happening in the UK”.

It’s thanks to a handful of passionate anti GM activists that we don’t have GM crops currently grown commercially in the UK, BUT…

This year it’s make or break time. Evidence is rife on the internet that GM crops are failing left right and centre (see short film on the web). GM is a one trick pony. Repeated use of the same herbicide – Monsanto’s’ roundup is often failing, even with five spraying’s per year, four of which go straight onto the crop itself and thereby straight into the food chain (Monsanto claimed that one be enough) and even fails when mixing it with Atrazine 2-4D (both banned in Europe)

Super weeds are the result, with many farmers now employing cheap Mexican labour to physically pull the weeds by hand in 1000+ acre fields.

The GM gene will cross-pollinate/contaminate conventionally grown crops which overwhelmingly are still rejected by markets when they get a choice.

SAFETY to humans… a major/ethical consideration you may have thought. THERE HAS BEEN NO LONG TERM INDEPENDENT SAFETY TESTING done to date (and none planned).

We are NOT anti-science. The wonders of science have helped humanity enormously. We are against the totally unregulated bulldozing of GM food into our shops purely to service the profits and growth of some of the worlds largest corporations – OUR FOOD NOT YOUR BUSINESS.

Monsanto made agent orange and aspartame, and we’re expected to trust them with our food…?
It is our sacred right to choose the food we eat. GM deprives us of that.