Hopefully they will be able to drive these fascists out of business !
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nto.jpg> Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is
responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes
<http://naturalsociety.com/monsantos-gmo-seeds-farmer-suicides-every-30-\
minutes/> , 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2
billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars).
The reason? As with many other cases, such as the ones that led certain
farming regions to be known as the `suicide belt', Monsanto has
been reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous
royalty charges.
The farmers state that Monsanto has been unfairly gathering exorbitant
profits each year on a global scale from "renewal" seed
harvests, which are crops planted using seed from the previous
year's harvest.
The practice of using renewal seeds dates back to ancient times, but
Monsanto seeks to collect massive royalties and put an end to the
practice. Why? Because Monsanto owns the very patent to the genetically
modified seed, and is charging the farmers not only for the original
crops, but the later harvests as well. Eventually, the royalties
compound and many farmers begin to struggle with even keeping their farm
afloat. It is for this reason that India slammed Monsanto with
groundbreaking `biopiracy' charges
<http://naturalsociety.com/india-slams-monsanto-with-unprecedented-biopi\
racy-charges/> in an effort to stop Monsanto from `patenting
life'.
Jane Berwanger, a lawyer for the farmers who went on record regarding
the case, told <http://www.rt.com/news/monsanto-brazil-seed-soy-908/>
the Associted Press:
"Monsanto gets paid when it sell the seeds. The law gives producers
the right to multiply the seeds they buy and nowhere in the world is
there a requirement to pay (again). Producers are in effect paying a
private tax on production."
The findings echo what thousands of farmers have experienced in
particularly poor nations, where many of the farmers are unable to stand
up to Monsanto. Back in 2008, the Daily Mail covered
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousan\
ds-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.ht\
ml> what is known as the `GM Genocide', which is responsible
for taking the lives of over 17,683 Indian farmers in 2009 alone. After
finding that their harvests were failing and they started to enter
economic turmoil, the farmers began ending their own lives
oftentimes drinking the very same insecticide that Monsanto provided
them with.
As the information continues to surface on Monsanto's crimes,
further lawsuits will begin to take effect. After it was ousted in
January that Monsanto was running illegal `slave-like'
<http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-abusing-illegal-workers-in-slave-lik\
e-conditions/> working rings, more individuals became aware of just how
seriously Monsanto seems to disregard their workers so why would
they care for the health of their consumers? In April 2012, another
group of farmers
<http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-knowingly-poisoned-workers-devastati\
ng-birth-defects/> sued Monsanto for `knowingly poisoning'
workers and causing `devastating birth defects'.
Will endless lawsuits from millions of seriously affected individuals be
the end of Monsanto?
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