Monsanto - Bayer Engineering Death: Bees, Bats and You?

On February 23, after some hesitation, the French agriculture minister, Hervé Gaymard, ruled on the highly controversial issue of fipronil, an active ingredient used in insecticides, which beekeepers in southwest France claim has been responsible for deaths of billions of bees. He suspended the future sale and use of several fipronil-based products, including Regent, a seed coating currently produced by BASF, one of the world's largest chemicals manufacturers. Gaymard added, however, that this spring farmers will be allowed to sow fipronil-coated seeds already in their possession. Similarly, wholesalers will be permitted to dispose of all their existing stocks.

He charged the firms with "the sale of a toxic product harmful to the health of human beings and animals", "complicity in the destruction of livestock" and "the marketing of a product without authorisation"

Oh and pelase stop quoting from the African countries, they were duped. Green peace told a few of the countries that GM crops would kill all of their people, poisoning them and the African nations bought that, so now they're repeating green peace lines without evidence.

DUPED????

South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income...

..Mayet says Monsanto was grossly understating the problem.According to her own information, some farms have suffered up to 80% crop failures. The centre is strongly opposed to GM-food and biologically-manipulated technology in general. "Monsanto says they just made a mistake in the laboratory, however we say that biotechnology is a failure. You cannot make a 'mistake' with three different varieties of corn." www.digitaljournal.com...

Yes we have allot of Government interference but the biggest thread to our survival is the Billion of American tax money and any other rich countries sending to Africa for poverty eradication.I will foreword you the article I wrote about the donor money to Africa.  

The government and big malty national cooperation's are our number one enemy.In my village the large Sugar industry is killing us. first they asked people to clear the forests to grow sugar cane , sugar cane takes two years to harvest, but because of corruption it takes up to seven years sometimes if you do not pay kick back they will never come to harvest your sugar cane,and even if they cut after seven years they deduct so much fees that most small scale farmers wind up owing them money.  

The worst thing they did is that they coursed so much land degradation of small farmers by using too much nitrogen phosphate chemical fertilizers and over relying on just one crop without rotation.This has created the top soil to be so acidic and since the villagers cleared the trees to make room for sugar cane crops there is nothing to prevent top soil from getting washed into the rivers then on to lake Victoria.Please google the effect of nitrogen phosphate into Lake Victoria and you can see the damage to the lake. All the river streams flowing into the Lake are carrying so much soil and Chemical fertilizers in such a way that in a few years there will be no Lake Victoria.Here is what new york Times write about ...

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It's not just the State and Defense departments that are reeling this month from leaked documents. The Environmental Protection Agency now has some explaining to do, too. In place of dodgy dealings with foreign leaders, this case involves the German agrichemical giant Bayer; a pesticide with an unpronounceable name, clothianidin; and an insect species crucial to food production (as well as a food producer itself), the honeybee.

On February 13th, 2007 Dow Chemical settled with the SEC for $325,000 in an administrative case charging Dow's subsidiary DE-Nocil with bribing Indian officials in excess of $200,000 over a 6 year period to register Dow's pesticides in India.
Dow bribed officials to register Dursban in India - a product banned for home use in the United States because it has caused dozens of children permenant injury or even death.
www.thetruthaboutdow.org...

About half of the world’s maize is grown in the United States,....each US farmer produces enough to feed more than 60 additional people.... More than 2.4 billion people are supported
by intensive subsistence agriculture.[feeds family with a little for trade] In the densely populated countries of Monsoon Asia such as India and China, it provides the economic base.

Although famines are associated with widespread crop failure, most are the result of social or political processes that disrupt traditional agricultural production strategies....

Why are so many million hungry and malnourished when there is more than enough food produced in the world each year, and which is adequate to feed everyone?

There are a number of social, economic, political and environmental reasons. War, the ownership of land and the structure of agriculture, commercialisation, poverty, the geography of food production and food aid are some of the important reasons. The hungry throughout the world have one common trait that they are poor. The landless and unemployed do not have means or money to acquire food. Commercialisation is aimed at exports, rather than providing subsistence food for the local people.
wwwoa.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/~rocksea/upload/ncert/ncert_XII_fundamentals_human_geography.pdf

But tbh as i have already stated the way we farm is not sustainable and if we adopted hydroponics we could feed the world 8 times over using less land and virtually no pesticides.