Allowing a corporation to control our food supply is idiocy of a dire order...

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Monsanto, a corporation, might be more powerful than the nation of Germany!

Germany has banned the cultivation of GM corn, claiming that MON 810 is dangerous for the environment. But that argument might not stand up in court and Berlin could face fines totalling millions of euros if American multinational Monsanto decides to challenge the prohibition on its seed.

So let me get this straight. A nation cannot simply ban Monsanto's product, even after said nation decides that it's bad for the environment? Even though EU law says that they, indeed, can ban such things? Wow.

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1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India

Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today.
The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels.
"The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago," Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts, told Down To Earth magazine.

I'm sure there's no connection between the crops failing due to a water shortage, and GM crops being planted that require twice as much water as the traditional varieties. MORE

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So let me get this straight. A nation cannot simply ban Monsanto's product, even after said nation decides that it's bad for the environment?

mm, is that really so surprising? Corporations have been setting the global agenda for decades now; we have international copyright laws that are stringently enforced and yet no international labor rights laws or environmental laws or etc. Only a handful of nations have ever had the power to stand up to them (the same handful that are in collusion with those corporations).

It's not often that a country as powerful as Germany gets thwarted, though.

Also, I HAVE SO MUCH HATE FOR MONSANTO. SO MUCH. Companies such as that have wrecked so much destruction in India, and the increasing rate of Indian farmer suicides over this past decade is awful.