Let’s make a plan(tation) of our own

As known, Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta and a few other corporations are greatly in control of food industry. This control involves farmer exploitation, genetically modified organisms, lethal pesticides, intellectual property over natural resources, …

Monsanto is run by people deciding to ignore human rights in exchange for money, individuals who should be able to be held accountable. A world movement has decided to take action with the International Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague -October 2016.

My point in this post is that things can be different, and we are not completely hopeless facing corporations. In fact, powerful social mobilizations for rights have appeared in places like India and Haiti were people, with all their setbacks, are stepping up and facing corporation control over their livelihoods.
When in 2010 in post earthquake Haiti, Monsanto started delivering its seeds as relief aid (together wit USAID) the Peasant Movement of Papaye started burning these seeds. In India 200.000 farmers committed suicide in the last decade because of being unable to pay debt for loans to adapt their practices to pesticides and seed monopoly of Monsanto and others. Now many movements like Seed freedom are spreading through the country. It’s encouraging to keep finding references of active projects protecting seeds and biodiversity from corporate control. You can read about in this post.

Implementing alternatives to toxic extensive agriculture is urgent and imperative. It’s not only about our health, it’s also a case of saving a collapsing ecosystem that soon won’t have non toxic land to grow healthy, nutritious food. It’s about preserving the already diminished biodiversity. Some examples are all around now:  Permaculture projects like Bec Hellouin Farm, people like Pierre Rabhi working for years in agroecology, or positive projects like Navdayna Farm working to reestablish connection with the land. A bit more about agroecology as an alternative in this article.

You can also act individually, buy locally, buy non GMO, check if your savings or funds are being invested in these agroindustry shares.

Let’s make a plan to be healthy sustainable humans because current predominant agroindustry by all the different Monsantos surely have their plan in place: The final cynicism, Monsanto is to become part of Bayer. A pharmaceutical will now also sell drugs to the sick people who it poisons.

To know more about the Monsanto’s history and how it affects you I recommend GMO.OMG documentary.

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