Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds

[onawah]

http://www.truthout.org/haitian-farmers-commit-burning-monsanto-hybrid-seeds59616

This is a very heartening article, and a great testimony to the courage of the Haitian people.
WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2010

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Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds

Tuesday 18 May 2010

by: Beverly Bell, t r u t h o u t | Report

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Jonas Deronzil from Verrettes has been farming since 1974. Like small producers throughout Haiti, his meager income from corn, rice and beans is threatened by new competition from Monsanto. (Photo: Beverly Bell)

"A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto's seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation's presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
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[Etherios]

Great post man thanx i wish we had more ppl thinking like them. Remember they are in a dare situation atm and still think for them selves... he said " we need the US to help us grow the food our selves not give it to us" or something like that.

[conk]

Most excellent. Monsanto is pure evil.

[tone3jaguar]

Hatians are desperate for anything, they are not going to be picky. I call B.S.