MONSANTO COUP IN PARAGUAY? Monsanto Merchants Of Death In Paraguay Notice, a democratically elected president of a country was deposed in a soft coup and there is nothing about it in the media. VERY telling. Monsanto Are Merchants Of Death In Paraguay Says Former President Paraguays former president, Fernando Lugo, who was democratically elected in 2008, was forced out of power at the end of June via a swift impeachment process. Almost immediately the unelected government of the new president, Federico Franco, fast-tracked the approval of the planting of Monsantos GM cotton, without waiting for the preliminary safety studies required by law from Paraguays environment and health ministries. Under former President Lugos administration, Paraguays National Service for Plants and Seeds Quality and Health (SENAVE) had refused to approve GM cotton, but almost immediately after Lugo was ousted, the president of an agrochemical company was put in charge of SENAVE and he immediately included Monsantos GM cotton (Bollgard) in the national registry of commercial plant varieties (RNCC). The former head of SENAVE was Miguel Lovera, who had previously come under attack after his agency destroyed 44 hectares of illegally planted GM corn. Enforcing agricultural and environmental regulations that interfere with the interests of multinational companies and the GM lobby is clearly not on the agenda of the new government. The strength of Monsanto and the GM lobby in Paraguay comes from the fact that Paraguay has become one of the worlds biggest suppliers of GM soy - much of it in the form of animal feed for Europe. Channel 4 in the UK is among those who have reported on how GM soy cultivation has led to violent conflict involving peasants, big landowners and the police, while the pesticides sprayed on the GM soy are causing serious birth defects and other health problems - see item 2. Some see Paraguays GM lobby, backed by the likes of Monsanto, as key players in the recent coup. gmoreport.blogspot/2012/09/monsanto-coup-in-paraguay.html
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:22:25 +0000
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