News Item Title: #Petition #Monsanto vs. Mother #Earth from #Avaaz.org Except from Posted News Item: To the #governments of #Germany, #France and the #Netherlands and all contracting states of the #European #Patent #Convention: As concerned #citizens, we urge you to take the lead to fix European patent law by calling on the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation [sic] to close the #loopholes that allow #corporations to patent plant varieties and conventional breeding #methods. Clear and effective safeguards and prohibitions are needed to protect consumers, farmers and breeders from the corporate takeover of our food chain. 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. News Source URL: avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_nm/?cNdTReb Additional Tags: #NS23 #US #GMO #NoGMO #GM #News Groups: Occupy Monsanto Millions Against Monsanto by OrganicConsumers.org Stop Monsanto Stopping Monsanto Monsanto Company The #BYPASS Movement Communist Party USA Aquaponic Farming Pasture-Based Farming and more Comments from a NS23 content contributor: We welcome all and encourage thee to visit News Station 23 (page on Facebook) as we have more news items and additional posts in the posts and comment area of posts, also remember to spread the good word about NS23 and about this petition against (anti) Monsanto, so Tell Your Friends, share to groups and walls, pages, and remember to sign the petition and again, spread the word, share and organize against Monsanto and other GMO companies ! --we just signed the petition in question
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:14:57 +0000
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