Sign Petition - Monsanto vs. Mother Earth - 1 million signature in just 36 hours!

[ExomatrixTV]

It’s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to gain exclusive control over the seeds of life – the source of our food. They’re trying to patent away varieties of our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, virtually forcing growers to pay them for seed and risk being sued if they don’t.

But we can stop them from buying up Mother Earth. Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to have exclusive rights over conventional seeds, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s greedy plans. The Avaaz community has shifted governments before, and we can do it again.

Many farmers and politicians are already against this -- we just need to bring in people power to pressure these countries to keep Monsanto’s hands off our food. Sign now and share with everyone to help build the biggest food defense call ever.

~Sign Petition: http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?slideshow

PElV1IraiSY

Pesticide Action Network
http://pan-uk.org

GM Freeze
http://gmfreeze.org

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organism

~support: http://youtube.com/SAYNO2GMO

Global GMO Alert! - New Scientific Evidence Proves Danger: http://youtu.be/3IWobUWh_Hk

Toxin from GMO crops detected in Canadian Blood: http://whynotnews.eu/?p=1057 & http://goo.gl/qyRQT

~FDA Deletes 1 Million Signatures for GMO Labeling Campaign - FDA slave to Monsanto? http://youtube.com/watch?v=MVwqLfAMvuo

Just Say No 2 GMO: http://youtu.be/mFXTEy13gIs

If you are against GMO, Rate, Fav, Comment, Share, Tweet, Facebook, Digg it:
http://digg.com/d31GVGH

Tell Congress to Support Labeling and Safety Testing of GE Foods! It takes less than 1 min:
http://ga3.org/campaign/Label_GE_Food

GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health:
http://biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm#headingA11

GMOs are killing the Bees:
http://goo.gl/fFiCL

Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure:
http://goo.gl/PHGki

Union Of Concerned Scientists have some excellent reports and resources:
http://ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/

Failure to Yield: their investigation into the biotechnology industry's claims that GM will produce higher yields
http://goo.gl/mvVTD

Gone to Seed: investigation into contamination of traditional seeds by Genetically Engineered crops:
http://goo.gl/mSsEU

Institute on Responsible Technology- have consumer guides to avoiding GMOs, lists of ingredients that have a high likelihood of genetic modification.
http://responsibletechnology.org

Non GMO Shopping Guide
http://nongmoshoppingguide.com/SG/Home/index.cfm

Patent for a Pig:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4-ouf_gmA5o

Killing off our farmers:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OJcZLXX39KA

~Sign Petition here (English): http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?slideshow
French Version: http://www.avaaz.org/fr/monsanto_contre_mere_nature_rb/?fpla
Spanish: http://www.avaaz.org/es/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?fpla
Dutch (Nederlands): http://www.avaaz.org/nl/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?fpla
German (Deutsch): http://www.avaaz.org/de/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?fpla

[golden lady]

Duly signed

[ExomatrixTV]

Duly signed

thank you :thumb:

[onawah]

Signed and shared on Facebook. Thanks for the alert.

[ExomatrixTV]

~IF YOU LIVE IN HOLLAND (Netherlands or Belgium) and you speak & read Dutch, Sign In or Up and vote it up: http://www.nujij.nl/politiek/1-millioen-handtekeningen-binnen-36-uur-tegen.22617382.lynkx

[ExomatrixTV]

Accountability, accuracy & clarity issues!

~question for AVAAZ.org & https://www.facebook.com/Avaaz ... how can we find out who is the original poster of any Petition and how can we respond & ask (constructive concerned) questions if something is not 100% crystal-clear, like this one: http://goo.gl/Oqc5o (it is NOT clear if this one is anti-gen-tech!) HELP NEEDED PLEASE!

... if it turns out to be a PRO-gen-tech Petition it is misleading!

Please respond to all my legitimate questions!!!

cheers,
john[AT]whynotnews.eu

Sent to webform at http://avaaz.org/en/contact on April 15th, 2013

[Mikelodium]

Signed and shared!

[ExomatrixTV]

Email received from the Petition Placers:

It's unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to gain exclusive control over the seeds of life ? the source of our food. They?re trying to patent away varieties of our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, virtually forcing growers to pay them for seed and risk being sued if they don?t.

But we can stop them from buying up Mother Earth. Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to have exclusive rights over conventional seeds, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto?s greedy plans. The Av aaz community has shifted governments before, and we can do it again.

Many farmers and politicians are already against this -- we just need to bring in people power to pressure these countries to keep Monsanto?s hands off our food. Sign now and share with everyone to help build the biggest food defense call ever:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?tbZpBeb

Once a patent exists in one country, trade agreements and negotiations often push other countries to honour it as well. That?s why patents change everything about how our food chain works: for thousands of years, farmers could choose which seeds they?d use without worrying about getting sued for violating intellectual property rights. But now, biotech companies are getting patents on the seeds and then charging farmers exorbitant royalty fees. And farmers can?t even save patented seeds for replanting the next season -- Monsanto has sued hundreds of them for practicing the age-old art of seed-saving and plant breeding. Monsanto and Co. claim that patents drive innovation -- but in fact they create a corporate monopoly of our food.


But luckily, the European Patent Office is controlled by 38 member states who, with one vote, can end dangerous patents on food that is bred using conventional methods. Even the European Parliament has issued a statement objecting to these kinds of destructive patents. Now, a massive wave of public outcry could push them to ban the patenting of our everyday food for good.

The situation is dire already -- Monsanto alone owns 36% of all tomato, 32% of sweet pepper and 49% of cauliflower varieties registered in the EU. With a simple regulatory change, we could protect our food, our farmers and our planet from corporate control -- and it's up to us to make it happen:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?tbZpBeb

The Avaaz community has never been afraid to stand up to corporate capture of our institutions, from pushing back the Rupert Murdoch mafia, to helping ensure that telecoms keep their hands off our Internet. Now it?s time to defend our food supply from this corporate takeover.

With hope and determination,

Jeremy, Michelle, Oli, Dalia, Pascal, Ricken, Diego and the whole Avaaz team


SOURCES:

Conventionally-bred plants or animals should be exempt from patents, say MEPs (EU Parliament)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pressroom/content/20120509IPR44733/html/Conventionally-bred-plants-or-animals-should-be-exempt-from-patents-say-MEPs

President of the European Patent Office gives green light for patents on plants and animals (No Patents on Seeds)
http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/information/background/green-light-for-patents-on-plants-and-animals

Monsanto: All Your Seeds Belong to Us (Mother Jones)
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/02/scotus-hears-monsanto-soybean-case

Seeds and Patents on Life (World Agriculture Report)
http://www.globalagriculture.org/index.php?id=2156

Structures and developments of the swiss and international seed markets through the a case study on certain vegetables varieties (Berne decleration, Swissaid and others) (German only)
http://www.evb.ch/cm_data/Saatgutmarkt_Juni_2012.pdf

Plant Patentability Questions Deepen In EPO Tomato Patent Case (IP Watch)
http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/06/13/plant-patentability-questions-deepen-in-epo-tomato-patent-case/

Tomato patent back before EPO?s Enlarged Board of Appeal (Europolitics)
http://europolitics.eis-vt-prod-web01.cyberadm.net/business-competitiveness/tomato-patent-back-before-epo-s-enlarged-board-of-appeal-art336003-7.html

[East Sun]

Thank you John,
We need to defeat them and this is a good way to bring awareness to the masses.

[soleil]

signed and facebooked

[william r sanford72]

signed...its still a good feeling to see so many standing up...for 10 years a felt it was hopeless..they are embedded deep and have been for awhile...this will not be an easy fight..or fair one.so much money and goverments are backing them and in the pockets.also.monanto sygenta..dupont etc.there motives go much deeper than cash..thats what worrys me..living in iowa..is like living with monsanto and dupont as close neighbors...my home town of fortmadison ia.had monsanto and dupont and sygenta and there scum bag factorys...were home to both.i cant convey enough the importance of this fight.thanks again EXO. and to anyone who signed it.much love and light.

[Mikelodium]

I want to suggest a documentary to all who don't know what Monsanto is and what have they done (and still doing) to our planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Monsanto


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VEZYQF9WlE

Peace from Spain, have a good week. :dirol:

[Nickolai]

Thank you!

Signed and facebooked!!!

[Metaphor]

Signed and facebooked here too! Keep on going to 2 million signed.

[Deej]

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause." - A Course In Miracles

But thank you for the opportunity!

;)

[Deega]

Signed and shared with friends.

[Daughter of Time]

Thank you Exomatrix TV!

As an Avaaz member, I had already received this petition in my mailbox this morning, which I immediately signed.

It has well passed the million mark and nearing the 2 million.

[Rollo]

Signed and shared!

[Inaiá]

Thank you for the divulgation. Had signed it already. Passed it on too.
Monsanto is one of those things that are "Stranger than ficcion"... !

[Metaphor]

Bump! 1,784,014 have signed. I think 2 million is just the beginning...

[East Sun]

If there was a place where people like police, army personal, politicians etc. who "can't speak out" for the usual reasons, could post their facts "anonymously" for all to see it could make a big difference.

I know it could be abused but those facts could be checked out by those who know how. Call it, Whistle-blowers Anonymous for instance.

Or maybe it's not possible to do anything anonymously on the internet. Or it could be done another way like typing letters and mailing them to a place that would make them public with no names involved.

At least we could get a good idea of how many "trapped in their jobs" knowledgeable people there are out there. And people tend to follow suit. It gets started and others follow.
It would include those who want to help but don't know how.

Anybody think this is not a crazy idea?

(Mods:) If this is not an appropriate thread for this please change or erase.

[East Sun]

No reply, so it must be a crazy idea..........ah well, we can but try.........

[ExomatrixTV]

East Sun (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?681-East-Sun) you are not crazy!


'Normal' is not normal 20 years ago, and is not normal 20 years in the future. Most 'normals' want to fit in the program, 'to belong', afraid to commit the 'crime' to be different. Be proud that you can exceed the mad programmed world! (...) So should you not be more worried about, if you're being called 'sane' by an insane world?

John Kuhles

[East Sun]

East Sun (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?681-East-Sun) you are not crazy!


'Normal' is not normal 20 years ago, and is not normal 20 years in the future. Most 'normals' want to fit in the program, 'to belong', afraid to commit the 'crime' to be different. Be proud that you can exceed the mad programmed world! (...) So should you not be more worried about, if you're being called 'sane' by an insane world?

John Kuhles


Thanks John,
I feel better now that you answered. No one replying is always a bit scary.