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Monsanto in Mexico | Report on the grassroots struggle against transgenic crops in a major center of origin

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All photos courtesy of CIP Americas’ Program Moderator’s Note:   We are reposting what I consider to be the best report on the history of the struggle against Monsanto and other purveyors of transgenic crops in Mexico, which successfully defeated the ‘Gene Giants’ in Mexican courts to ban the planting of GMO corn and other transgenic crops that represent a real, proven threat to the native land race varieties in one of the world’s preeminent centers of origin for numerous domesticated crops including maize, beans, squash, and many others. The CIP Americas Program has been accompanying the grassroots movement of campesinos, indigenous communities, consumers and scientists to maintain the ban on genetically modified corn for over a decade. The pushback from Monsanto and other biotech companies has been constant, but cross-sector organization has succeeded in protecting Mexico’s native corn and campesino livelihoods from the threat. This report describes the latest developments. I...
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Monsanto and environmental racism

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Moderator’s Note: I am presenting a “Letter to Monsanto” prepared by Jeff Nguyen, a Vietnamese American. Mr. Nguyen was a young child when the defoliant chemical known as Agent Orange was sprayed all over Viet Nam during the American War (1961-71). The Air Force code name for this assault on the people, wildlife, plants, and ecosystems of Viet Nam was known as Operation Ranch Hand , an ironic and somewhat foreboding reference given the subsequent history of Monsanto’s billion-dollar domination of the agricultural herbicide market. The targets on the ground were not the only ones that suffered from the effects of the use of Agent Orange and the pilots and airmen [sic] involved in the spraying missions – which were called trail dust missions – were misinformed about the hazards of the chemical they were spraying. One of these former airmen recalls: I remember the sight and the smell of the spray.    In the early morning low angle sunlight, it appeared to have an orange hue – at...
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GEO Watch | Consumer Education Monsanto-Style

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Internet troll. Credit: Splitreason . World Food Prize winner outlines shift in strategy FOCUS ON CONSUMERS NOT JUST GROWERS Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | May 2, 2014 Robert Fraley, Monsanto’s Chief Technology Officer and this year’s winner of the dubious World Food Prize, recently admitted that Monsanto made a huge strategic error by focusing educational outreach on growers and ignoring consumers. An interesting analysis of this admission is presented in an overlooked report by Joan Faus published in the April 12, 2014 edition of El País   ( Spain).  Faus quotes Fraley admitting the error: “In the last twenty years almost all of our communication activities and education have been focused on farmers and it went very well. But the mistake we made is that we did not put enough effort toward consumer education.” Faus attended a press conference hosted last month by Fraley in St. Louis with invited members of the European press corps. The extended session revealed much about th...
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