From Paris to Ouagadougou, thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest against the American biotechnology giant Monsanto and its genetically modified crops and pesticides.

The third annual March Against Monsanto was being held in upwards of 400 cities in more than 40 countries.

About 2,500 people staged anti-Monsanto protests in the Swiss cities of Basel and Morgues, where the company has its headquarters for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Up to 3,000 protesters rallied by environmental organisations including Greenpeace and anti-capitalist group Stop Tafta gathered in Paris, with Monsanto's market-leading herbicide Roundup the main targets of protesters' anger.

The controversial product's main ingredient was recently classified as "probably carcinogenic to humans" by the World Health Organisation.

Organisers said ahead of the marches the multinational biotech giant had claimed that genetically modified crops would actually lead to a decrease in Roundup use.


But they pointed to US Geological Survey data that revealed the use of Roundup's key component glyphosate had increased 16-fold since the mid-1990s when genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were first introduced.

"Looking for mass suicide? Go for Roundup," read one placard at a French protest in the western city of Rennes.

In a march in another French city, Toulouse, protesters called for more protection for bees, amid international alarm at recent population declines of the vital pollinator.

Halfway around the planet in Burkina Faso, about 500 people marched against the US giant, which introduced GM cotton into the west African country in 2003.

Demonstrators demanded a 10-year moratorium on the planting of Monsanto seeds so "independent research can be conducted" into the effects of the technology.

Up to 1,000 anti-Monsanto activists gathered in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg as the sun was setting for a minute's silence "in homage to the existing and future victims poisoned by pesticides", according to the organisers.

The worldwide March Against Monsanto was begun in 2013 by the Occupy movement and has become an annual event.

bogarde73 wrote on May 24^th, 2015 at 2:39pm:



welcome to the dark side boges

Svengali wrote on May 24^th, 2015 at 2:55pm:



only the middle eastern or black ones.

bogarde73 wrote on May 24^th, 2015 at 2:39pm:


Oh bogey, you dirty unwashed, unemployed layabout, how could you?

I think you're crossing over, mixing with the great unwashed rent-a-crowd.....what's that behind your back? not a sign, surely......



Or did you mean you're supporting it from your desk?

Pansi.
I get down & dirty but I always tub.
I've been unemployed for a long time but I always seem to be working.
I like lingerie but I'm not crossing over I assure you.
I'm not into crowds or groups of over 4.
My support is the power of the pen.

http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/12/03/monsanto-put-on-trial-for-crimes-against-...

Monsanto Put on Trial for Crimes against Humanity in The Hague

Posted on Dec 3 2015 - 6:25pm by Sustainable Pulse

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today that they will put Monsanto MON (NYSE), a US-based transnational corporation, on trial for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.

This is bad. I have no memory at all of starting this thread or posting in it. And what is it, a few months ago.

This just shows the idiocy of the ignorant.

There was a time when the elitists thought starvation would be a problem a few decades ago, thanks to GM crops this was averted.

Nothing wrong with GM crops they can make crops grow in unsuitable conditions, sounds like fearmongering from the ignorant.