Vandana Shiva, Scientist, Writer & Activist, in Acres, January 2016:
Biopiracy is an epidemic. The most serious piracy involves plundering the innovation by farm-ers of the Third World who have evolved climate-resilient crops. 🔥Today the Monsantos and the Bill Gateses of the world are presenting the pirated climate-resilient crops as their inventions.🔥 Bill Gates wrote an article about it — “Oh, Melinda and I were visiting a farmer who is using seeds we introduced” — seeds that tolerate flooding. Well, it didn’t come out of Bill Gates’ labs, it came from Indian farmers. They pirate the seeds and take a patent. Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta have 1,500 patents on climate-resilient crops! They are looking toward the climate crisis as a way to deepen their monopoly. If you look at the last few years, every time there has been a disaster — an earthquake, a tsunami, a cyclone — they have arrived with their GMO seeds. 🔥After the earthquake damaged Nepal so badly in April we kept getting calls — half of their seed banks had been damaged in the earthquake, buried under homes. The earthquake happened in April, by May we had to get the seeds there. We put the seeds together. At the border, the customs officer saw a very strange circular saying, “No seed except ...” — and there was a list of companies, Monsanto and a Monsanto subsidiary.🔥 Only those seeds could enter. We checked with Nepal’s agriculture minister and he said, “I never passed this order.” They’ll even exploit an earthquake to make a monopoly!
🌸🌹🌺🌻💮🌷🍀🍁🌼
This is why I address Parangis fondly as "Sons & Daughters of Parangi Bitches"!!
😂😂😂
Biopiracy is an epidemic. The most serious piracy involves plundering the innovation by farm-ers of the Third World who have evolved climate-resilient crops. 🔥Today the Monsantos and the Bill Gateses of the world are presenting the pirated climate-resilient crops as their inventions.🔥 Bill Gates wrote an article about it — “Oh, Melinda and I were visiting a farmer who is using seeds we introduced” — seeds that tolerate flooding. Well, it didn’t come out of Bill Gates’ labs, it came from Indian farmers. They pirate the seeds and take a patent. Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta have 1,500 patents on climate-resilient crops! They are looking toward the climate crisis as a way to deepen their monopoly. If you look at the last few years, every time there has been a disaster — an earthquake, a tsunami, a cyclone — they have arrived with their GMO seeds. 🔥After the earthquake damaged Nepal so badly in April we kept getting calls — half of their seed banks had been damaged in the earthquake, buried under homes. The earthquake happened in April, by May we had to get the seeds there. We put the seeds together. At the border, the customs officer saw a very strange circular saying, “No seed except ...” — and there was a list of companies, Monsanto and a Monsanto subsidiary.🔥 Only those seeds could enter. We checked with Nepal’s agriculture minister and he said, “I never passed this order.” They’ll even exploit an earthquake to make a monopoly!
🌸🌹🌺🌻💮🌷🍀🍁🌼
This is why I address Parangis fondly as "Sons & Daughters of Parangi Bitches"!!
😂😂😂
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