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‘March
against Monsanto’: Global movement plans 2nd protest
Joining
six continents, 52 countries and over 500 cities, ‘March against
Monsanto’ is planning its second mass rally Saturday against the
biotech giant and genetically modified food. A number of Agent Orange
victims are expected to join the protest.
RT,
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October, 2013
“Saturday
is a big day of action against Monsanto. We took our lights out to a
local cornfield. Monsanto is bad for our food and bad for our
planet,” the March against Monsanto’s movement posted on its
Facebook page.
The
rallies, which come four days ahead of World Food Day on Oct. 16,
will call on millions of activists to boycott “Monsanto’s
predatory business,” genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and
other harmful pesticides, which threaten “health, fertility and
longevity.”
On
October, 5, Movement against Monsanto launched a global 'Twitter
storm' asking people to tweet and post certain hashtags as frequently
as possible.
#MAM USDA agreements allow Monsanto to test their own crops: USDA agreements allow Monsanto to test t...
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“The
goal of this Twitter storm is to get the March and info about GMOs
trending on Twitter and Facebook and to build awareness about
Monsanto and their dangerous products and policies,” the organizers
said in a statement.
Citing
scientists, activists insist that health risks include organ damage,
sterility, infant mortality, birth defects, auto-immune conditions,
allergies and increased cancer risks.
What
makes this Saturday’s rallies different is that this time victims
of Agent Orange and Dioxin Exposures (all members of Children of
Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance) will be participating in the events
in several cities across the US.
“Never
before will so many Children of Vietnam Veterans be speaking out at
the same time, on the same day,” the movement said in its
statement. “October is Agent Orange Awareness Month; please support
those trying to make a difference in their own lives.”
#MAM March Against Monsanto this Saturday!
Find your local event!
http://www.marc...: March Against ...
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Monsanto
is one of the seven chemical companies who manufactured the toxic
herbicide Agent Orange, which the US government massively sprayed in
the Vietnam War.
“Almost
as soon as Vietnam Veterans came home and started their family,
reports began to surface about multiple miscarriages and birth
defects in their children,” the statement said.
Forty
years later, reports still indicate that untold numbers of Vietnamese
civilians, former soldiers and others exposed to the highly toxic
chemical back in the 1960s and 1970s continue to develop terminal
illnesses such as cancer, and to suffer from all kinds of other
herbicide-induced health horrors.
Although
Monsanto is not the only company that uses pesticides, herbicides and
GMOs, its global dominance means that it is the biggest target of
public protests.
Started
as a small event, the first March against Monsanto on May 25 turned
into a global campaign with over 2 million people in 436 cities,
across 52 countries, joining the rallies.
The
protest is being organized on Facebook and Google Documents, where
users can find a list of events near their location.
On
social networks, the movement has started the hashtags: #MarchOct12
#MarchAgainstMonsanto, #O12.
Meanwhile,
despite public fears and accusations, Monsanto insists it does not
pose any unacceptable risk to human health or the environment, but,
on the contrary, improves agriculture since it helps farmers to
produce more from their land while saving resources such as water and
energy.
The
US biotech giant insists that research into GMO crops is
"inconclusive" and lobbies to continue manufacturing
lab-made foods.
In
March, the US Congress passed a law dubbed the “Monsanto Protection
Act” by its critics, which allowed companies that use GMOs to plant
and sell genetically altered products, ignoring judicial rulings.
On
September, 27, the assistance to GMO companies was removed from a
Senate spending bill, despite the fact that the US House of
Representatives approved a three-month extension earlier in the
month.
For
extensive coverage of the demonstrations worldwide, check back with
RT.com throughout the weekend.
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