Monsanto driven out of the UK (oops - old news - see Post #12)

[onawah]

(Mod-edit: oops - see update in Post #12 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?39907-Monsanto-driven-out-of-the-UK--oops-old-news-see-Post-12-&p=419015&viewfull=1#post419015) below. -Paul.)

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I certainly hope this announcement isn't premature. If it's not, it's very good news!

Huge victory against GMOs as Monsanto driven out of the UK by consumer protests

Friday, February 03, 2012
by Mike Adams
Editor of NaturalNews.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034861_GMO_UK_Monsanto.html#ixzz1lJ6ro8aU


(NaturalNews) A massive victory against Monsanto and genetically engineered seeds has been achieved in the United Kingdom today. Monsanto has announced a total withdrawal from the UK, shuttering its Cambridge-based wheat production operation. UK newspaper Daily Mail was instrumental in promoting opposition against Monsanto through its "Frankenstein Foods" educational campaign (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-199884/GM-giant-quits-Britain...).

The paper is now reporting that Monsanto plans to sell off GMO crop-breeding centers in France, Germany and the Czech Republic. Daily Mail reported, "...the company has given up hopes of introducing GM crops to Europe." (Are you grinning as wide as I am right now?)

The UK government, it turns out, was on the verge of announcing a finding that genetically engineered crops would "pollute the countryside for generations." Gee, ya think? I wonder why the USDA can't seem to come to the same scientific conclusion...

Bayer CropScience has also cancelled its planned GMO crop trials in the UK, signaling a near total collapse of agricultural imperialism in the UK.

If they can stop Monsanto in the UK, we can stop them here in the USA!
The defeat of Monsanto and all the other merchants of death who peddle poisonous seeds is, of course, a powerfully positive sign for those who are trying to protect life in the United States. We know that GMOs are death for agriculture, death for bird populations, death for honey bee pollinators, and death for the soils. We know that Monsanto is the most evil corporation on the planet (http://www.naturalnews.com/030967_Monsanto_evil.html), willing to destroy the future of life on our planet in exchange for a quarterly profit.

We also know that the public is joining the fight against GMOs. A massive effort is already underway to mandate the labeling of GMOs on foods sold in California (http://www.naturalnews.com/033763_GMOs_California_ballot_initiative.h...). A similar effort has begun in Washington state. Many other states are considering similar legislation.

The FDA and USDA, meanwhile, have proven they are total sellouts, corrupted by powerful corporations, worshipping the technology of death, and serving as outright betrayers of the American people. Death merchants like Bill Gates -- the depopulation agenda pusher -- continue to try to pimp GMOs by calling them "high-tech agriculture." They buy media influence with their billions of dollars (http://www.naturalnews.com/034859_Bill_Gates_mainstream_media_influen...), and they corrupt members of Congress with campaign money. They are literally trying to destroy modern agriculture in North America as a way to control every seed, every patent, and every grain of food that appears on a dinner plate in America... it is an agenda of total domination.

And yet... we can stop them. We the People have the power to end agricultural imperialism in North America and around the world. We have an opportunity to stop the death merchants, expose the deceptions, mandate honest labeling of our foods and send Monsanto, DuPont and other GMO companies packing.

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Real justice means not having our food poisoned. Not having our crop fields invaded by foreign DNA engineered by Monsanto. Not being forced to inject our children with dangerous vaccines. Not having our raw milk stolen and destroyed by FDA agents. Not having our bodies contaminated with mercury, aluminum and cancer-causing chemicals.

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Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034861_GMO_UK_Monsanto.html#ixzz1lJ6ESCz1

[ViralSpiral]

Yay!

I see that the article has gone viral

Found this:


Monsanto said it would not resume sales of MON810, a maize genetically modified to improve pest resistance, despite a French court ruling in November that overturned a 2008 government ban on its sale.

However, despite the court's decision to annul the ban after finding it had not produced enough evidence that MON810 posed a significant risk to health or the environment, the French government insisted earlier this month it would not allow the cultivation of the biotech maize.

Backed by President Sarkozy, the French government first banned MON810 in 2008 as a "serious risk to the environment". The crop is genetically modified to produce toxins that kill insects.

Five other EU countries - Germany, Greece, Austria, Luxemburg and Hungary - also ban MON810 cultivation.

GM Freeze campaign director Pete Riley said: This is yet another indication that science underpinning the EU approvals process does not have the confidence of most citizens

source 27 Jan (http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/30/01/2012/131189/Monsanto-halts-GM-maize-plans-in-France.htm)

[Tony]

Well, well, ....the meek shall inherit the earth, again!

[ktlight]

FYI:
"A massive victory against Monsanto and genetically engineered seeds has been achieved in the United Kingdom today. Monsanto has announced a total withdrawal from the UK, shuttering its Cambridge-based wheat production operation. UK newspaper Daily Mail was instrumental in promoting opposition against Monsanto through its "Frankenstein Foods" educational campaign (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-199884/GM-giant-quits-Britain...).

The paper is now reporting that Monsanto plans to sell off GMO crop-breeding centers in France, Germany and the Czech Republic. Daily Mail reported, "...the company has given up hopes of introducing GM crops to Europe." (Are you grinning as wide as I am right now?)

The UK government, it turns out, was on the verge of announcing a finding that genetically engineered crops would "pollute the countryside for generations." Gee, ya think? I wonder why the USDA can't seem to come to the same scientific conclusion...

Bayer CropScience has also cancelled its planned GMO crop trials in the UK, signaling a near total collapse of agricultural imperialism in the UK.

If they can stop Monsanto in the UK, we can stop them here in the USA!

The defeat of Monsanto and all the other merchants of death who peddle poisonous seeds is, of course, a powerfully positive sign for those who are trying to protect life in the United States. We know that GMOs are death for agriculture, death for bird populations, death for honey bee pollinators, and death for the soils. We know that Monsanto is the most evil corporation on the planet (http://www.naturalnews.com/030967_Monsanto_evil.html), willing to destroy the future of life on our planet in exchange for a quarterly profit."

source
http://www.naturalnews.com/034861_GMO_UK_Monsanto.html

[astralflyer]

fantastic news, thanks for sharing and lets hope others will follow soon!

[GaelVictor]

sad, it's untrue

[Tane Mahuta]

Agreed pie'n'eal

http://"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth", found in Matthew 5:5

TM

[Ol' Roy]

Awesome! It would be nice , if enough of us sheeple in the USA could do the same thing! That's one more thing more to protest about. Quit buying GMO foods might just do the trick. Also plant a garden this Spring with heirloom seeds.

[tgops]

congratulations...UK people...:cool:

In India its difficult to do the same..because of...poor and illiterate farmers..:(

[jackovesk]

In India its difficult to do the same..because of...poor and illiterate farmers..:(

Don't be so sure about that tgops..?

Rgs,

Jack

[Dennis Leahy]

Wait a minute: This is based on a 2003 article (in a "tabloid"-type publication) and was not true then or now.

I wish this was true, but you folks in the UK should know that Monsanto was NOT driven out of the UK in 2003, or 2004, ... or 2012. Not yet, at least.

I don't know why Natural News posted that as "News", but I don't think Tony Blair is still in power in the UK. From the 2003 article, "David Hill, Tony Blair's new spin doctor, is a former adviser to Monsanto and Science Minister Lord Sainsbury holds a stake in a firm linked to Monsanto, which is handled by a blind trust."

Mods may want to merge this and the other thread (Huge victory against GMOs as Monsanto driven out of the UK by consumer protests), and also add a disclaimer at the top that the story is incorrect.

Dennis

[onawah]

Unfortunately, Dennis is correct. I wish I had waited before posting that. It seemed too good to be true, but also like the kind of news I'm expecting and hoping to see in 2012. Maybe the blunder will have good consequences in the end., however. We can only hope.

Correction: Honest mistake on reporting GMO victory in UK - here's the real story (and how it happened)

Dear NaturalNews readers,

We have a depressing correction to make this morning. Our "victory against GMOs" story about the UK turns out to be old news rather than good news. We had ran a search for "Monsanto" on the Daily Mail website, and it turned up our source story, dated February 3, 2012. But as it turns out, that was some sort of date glitch on the Daily Mail website, and that article was actually published in 2003!

We have a captured screen shot from the Daily Mail's own search engine, showing the incorrect date on the article. View it here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/images/GMO-Site-Screen-2012.jpg

(For those of you in the USA looking at this photo, remember that in the UK, the day and month are reversed, so 03/02 means February 3rd, not March 2nd.)

Monsanto contacted us this morning and insisted they had not retreated from the UK at all, and in fact they had made great strides in the UK and across Europe. We have also since confirmed with Daily Mail that this story is from 2003, not 2012.

So, my friends, I regret to inform you that things are far worse than we had hoped. GMOs have not been defeated in Europe, and our optimism was mistaken. This is a lesson in misplaced optimism, it seems...

I truly regret the confusion this has caused, but of course it was not intentional on our part. We thought we were quoting an article from today, February 3rd, 2012.

On the side of actual good news, it is true that an anti-GMO rally is scheduled for February 21 in Hawaii:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034860_GMO_Hawaii_protest.html


And regardless of the situation in the UK, NaturalNews will continue to fight for food freedom, food safety and the protection of non-GMO crops against what I call "seed imperialism" being conducted by Monsanto and other companies.

We've also posted a new video today about new science showing the dangers of GMOs, this is a video of me on the Alex Jones Show recently:
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=CBE1B1F9DABF51AC4873202C1DF71789


We will continue our grassroots efforts to demand GMO labeling on foods, to protect farmers against GMO crop contamination, to inform consumers about the dangers of GMOs, and to protect the enviornment from the devastating destruction caused by GMOs.

[Dennis Leahy]

There isn't a word in my language to describe my feelings about Monsanto. I literally would have to eat something vile and poisonous and then vomit to have something come out of my mouth accurately describing my feelings towards this group of mad scientists, greed-driven industrialists, masters of government collusion, bringers of death, destroyers of sacred food...

So, you see, I SO wanted that story to be true, and hated to report it was not. The utter and complete destruction of Monsanto (with arrests and convictions of the main players), and the destruction of 100% of genetically modified organisms on planet Earth is one of the prime criteria for the success of the human race. I continue to strive towards that goal.

Dennis

[onawah]

No one could have said it better, Dennis.
I will continue to hope that something good will come of this.
If nothing more than people realizing how MUCH they detest Monsanto and would like to see them evicted from the UK and every other country, post haste.

[Cilka]

One thing I don't get. What is so different between Europeans who manage to fight off Monsanto and the North Americans? Why is it that Canadians or AMericans are unable to get the same results? I just don't get it. I was born in Europe and I find it extremely difficult to relate to people on this continent in regards to these issues. It seems that the ordinary citizens just don't give a damn about anything that concerns their health. What sets Europeans and North Americans apart? Smart meters are being slowly introduced in the province that I reside in, and do you think that people would be at least a little outraged while knowing the fact that smart meters have been identified by European nations as possible cancer causing devices? There are a few people who are willing to voice their opinion and the rest just sit back and do nothing. Two percent of the population cannot change the world, but 90 percent can. It is already 2012 and I don't see any awaking in consciousness, I think the year 2012 will be as cruel and wasted as any other years behind us. Hoping that people will get their sh.. together this year is just false hope.

[tgops]

In India its difficult to do the same..because of...poor and illiterate farmers..:(

Don't be so sure about that tgops..?

Rgs,

Jack


Do you think the same story could be repeated by Indian farmers..??? :ear: