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Dr. vanDana shiva Calls move livelihoods and pushes them market for their toxic chemicals stopped in India.
The government should
and GMO seeds, the cartel
towards extreme steps. Simply
‘frauD perpetrateD on nation’ speaking, GM mustard equals sees India as a huge source of offer farmers a support price
for indigenous oilseeds in
farmers suicides in Rajasthan
profit.
and other mustard growing
In addition, at this point,
dependence on edible oils such
states. when large parts of the world order to reverse the import
pushing GMOs in order to have banned this cartel, they as GM soy bean oil and palm
collect royalties from seeds, You have been talking about are trying to destroy India’s oil that was engineered in 1998
therefore they are doing two Monsanto as a cartel? Why? regulatory and patent system by the same interests, who are
things simultaneous, pushing The cartel has its roots to push through GMOs for now using the same import
GMOs, while attacking our in World War II and Hitler’s patents and royalties. Finally, dependence to promote GM
patent laws. The real game is: concentration camps. the same people who are mustard. In 1998, I had started
They’d like to patent our seeds Monsanto and Bayer made trying to control our food the Sarson Satyagraha to
and are therefore pushing a explosives and lethally through GMOs also control defend our mustard and fight
failed and toxic technology of poisonous gases using the pharmaceutical industry. against its ban. Today, we
genetic engineering on India, shared technologies and sold So when people fall sick and need a Sarson Satyagraha in
her farmers, and her citizens. them to both sides of both get cancer, they have cornered which every farmer and every
the World Wars. Bayer was the market on their treatment. citizen participates by refusing
Is GM Mustard really part of IG Farben, Hitler’s What stands in their way is to use GM mustard seeds or
dangerous? If so how? economic power and pre-war India’s sovereignty. They’re GM mustard oil.
The first danger of GM Germany’s highest foreign trying to attack that by In 1857 we fought against
mustard is monopoly on exchange earner, with offices corrupting our government the East India Company. That
India’s mustard seeds, just in the United States and agencies. was our first independence
Condemning the Genetic a fraud perpetrated on the like Monsanto established a Switzerland. How can India defend our movement. In 2017, we are
being called to participate in
Monsanto entered into a
Engineering Approval nation and has been granted monopoly on cotton seeds. The joint venture with IG Farben, food sovereignty? the third freedom movement—
Committee’s (GEAC) under pressure from Monsanto second danger is the spread Hitler’s supplier of Zyklon-B, The approval from GEAC against poison in our foods—
decision to allow herbicide and Bayer. of toxins in our agriculture, a cyanide based pesticide used is merely a recommendation. and freedom from the cartel
tolerant Bayer’s GM mustard, The GM mustard is actually both through the spread of the in concentration camps during The government, especially the hijacking our structures of
scientist and environmentalist a Bayer mustard. It is evident herbicide glufosinate and well the holocaust. Zyklon-B environment minister, still has governance and decision
Dr Vandana Shiva sent out the by looking at its history, as the genetic modification was used as evidence in the to take a final call. Secondly, making.
call across India to intensify traits and the patents on the which are toxic in and of Nuremberg trials, finding IG agriculture is a state subject Like salt and indigo
resistance to genetically component technologies. The themselves. Farben guilty of war crimes. and biosafety laws of India triggered the Salt March and
modified (GM) mustard and GEAC committed a fraud in I have done a detailed Monsanto and Bayer also had a require state approval. Chief Champaran Satyagraha, let
“the hijack of our food by the misleading the nation, that the review of the fraudulent Joint Venture – Mobay. Mobay ministers of mustard growing this new corruption give
Monsanto and Bayer.” GM technology in mustard assessment of GEAC. Let supplied ingredients for states such as Rajasthan should birth to a nationwide Sarson
The GEAC gave a was being used to increase me tell the everyone: There
nod to Bayer’s Herbicide yields through producing a have been no feeding studies Agent Orange in the Vietnam maintain their commitment to Satyagraha.
say no to GM mustard. This
War. Wars were fought,
Tolerant(HT) GM mustard hybrid. conducted on animals or lives were lost, countries is the how the Bt Brinjal was
on 11 May, despite a case still The truth is that the GMO humans. Plus, there is no carved into holy lands – with Courtesy: Firstspot
being heard in the Supreme mustard is a herbicide resistant blood analysis available of artificial boundaries that suit
Court and a commitment to mustard, which is resistant to the animals. Barnase, Barstar, colonisation and resource grab
the court that no decision will Bayer herbicide glufosinate, Bar Genes have not tested for – while Bayer and Monsanto
be made till the court gives which is established to be a safety in GMO mustard. The sold chemicals as bombs and
further directions. neurotoxin. Further, Bayer has GMO will cause devastation poisons.
Indra Shekhar Singh hundreds of patents related to to not only biodiversity but They were one as Mobay,
speaks with Dr Vandana Shiva the GMO mustard. Bayer has also irreversibly impact Indian part of the cartel of IG Farben.
to know more about this now merged with Monsanto native mustard, bees, soil Controlling stakes of both
decision. therefore one can call the organisms. corporations lie with the same
GMO mustard a Monsanto/ Ever since these
What do you think about the Bayer mustard. corporations entered India, we private equity firms. The
expertise of these companies is
GEAC decision to approve of While on the one hand, have already seen this with the those of war.
GM mustard? they are corrupting our case of Bt Cotton and the cycle The focus of the cartel is
The GEAC has given the regulatory agencies, Monsanto of rural debt that pushed 3 lakh
approval for GM Mustard that is also trying to influence the farmers to commit suicide. on India is because we are a
land rich in biodiversity and in
was rejected in 2002. Since courts to try and undermine On the one hand, the agriculture. By taking control
then, it has been established to our patent laws. Article 3 government is claiming that it if our seeds and collecting
be inferior in yields compared J of the Indian Patent Act has doubled farmers’ incomes, royalties, both through genetic
to non-genetically modified excludes seeds, plants and but on the other hand it is engineering and biopiracy,
organism (GMO) Indian animals from patentability. rushing to approve GMO as well as a making India a
hybrid. The approval is clearly Monsanto and Bayer are mustard, which steals farmers’