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Subject: No to Seed Sterilization- Shoot Email to USDA from RAFI
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>Subject: - Important Seed
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>From: Take Back Arkansas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: - Important Seed Sterilization
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>>From Ed
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>Subject: Non-Ed - Important: Seed Sterilization
>
>This ties into what I sent out yesterday and in truth is a thinly
disguised
>attempt, along with others, to control the global food
supply. Not only
>will it control seed sourcing but will also
control who grows what and
>where, at the expense of the small
farmer. This is part of global
>government control. Fred
>
>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:12:38 -0800
>Subject: Terminator: RAFI Launches Mail Campaign
>--------------------------------------
> Help Stop the Terminator
>Jump to: http://www.rafi.org/usda.html
>--------------------------------------
>Monsanto in Closed
Negotiations with the US Department of Agriculture to
>Finalize Control
of Terminator Technology
>
>
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> Monsanto is
moving swiftly to finalize its control over
> the Terminator
technology. The company may extract an
> exclusive license from the
US Department of Agriculture
> (USDA) within weeks. RAFI is
initiating an urgent
> internet-based international campaign to stop the
USDA -
> Monsanto negotiations before it's too late. A special
> WWW page has been set up at http://www.rafi.org/usda.html
> to
enable anyone with internet access to send a customized
> message to the
USDA asking it to cease negotiations and
> bury this anti-farmer,
anti-biodiversity technology.
> Additional contact details are provided
below.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>A Monsanto subsidiary, Delta & Pine Land (D&PL), is
currently negotiating
>with the USDA to exclusively license the US
Government's interest in the
>controversial Terminator technology patent,
a genetic technique that
>renders farm-saved seed sterile. The
seed-sterilizing technology -
>developed with US taxpayer dollars - will
prevent farmers from saving seed
>from their harvest, forcing them to
return to the commercial seed market
>every year.
>
>The
Terminator patent (US # 5,723,765) is jointly owned by D&PL and the
>USDA. Under US law, since D&PL worked with USDA to develop the
technology,
>the company has the option to negotiate an exclusive
license. Hoping to
>find a gullible international public,
Monsanto's PR machine in Brussels,
>New Delhi, Harare, St. Louis, and
points in between, are massaging jittery
>governments and publicly trying
to distance the company from the Terminator
>technology by referring to
it as "conceptual" and "not yet proven." But
>the company's move to negotiate an exclusive license with USDA confirms
>that Monsanto is eager to commercialize Terminator seeds.
>
>Despite international controversy boiling over in at least two UN
agencies
>rather than engage in public dialog, a leaked internal memo by
Deputy
>Administrator K. Darwin Murrell reveals that USDA hopes to
quietly manage
>controversy over the patent. The memo
warns USDA employees that
>Terminator research is "a sensitive issue
that requires an extra level of
>review" to help "avoid
potential political and legal pitfalls." But the
>USDA insists that
the Terminator is a beneficial technology and confirms
>that its
scientists are themselves interested in developing the seed
>sterilizing
technique as platform to host a package of "stacked" traits in
>genetically engineered plants.
>
>
>SAY NO TO
TERMINATOR!
>
>RAFI invites you to join an international e-mail
campaign being initiated
>today to protest the licensing and commercial
development of the Terminator
>technology. RAFI has set up a
special web page
>(http://www.rafi.org/usda.html) that automatically
sends a customized
>e-mail to US Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman
(also see address
>information below). We urge you to write to US
Department of Agriculture
>officials to demand that USDA cease licensing
negotiations and abandon all
>international patent applications on a
dangerous and immoral technology
>that should never see the commercial
light of day.
>
>RAFI is urging government institutions to hold
public inquiries on the
>alarming rate of seed industry consolidation,
and to take steps to
>safeguard - not eliminate - the fundamental right
of farmers to save seed
>and breed crops.
>
>RAFI is also
calling for protest over the fact that public research funds
>were used
to develop a technology that will bring no agronomic benefit to
>farmers,
and no benefits to consumers. The Terminator technology is
>designed simply to increase seed industry profits by forcing farmers to
>return to the commercial seed market every year.
>
>Global
Issue
>The potential impact of the Terminator technology goes far beyond
US
>borders. It is an international issue, with global implications.
Delta &
>Pine Land says that it will target the use of Terminator
seeds in the
>South, where over 1.4 billion people - primarily poor
farmers - depend on
>farm-saved seed as their primary seed source.
Monsanto, which recently
>merged with American Home Products, is the
world's second largest seed
>corporation and the number one agrochemical
corporation.
>
>The owners of the Terminator patent have indicated
that they will apply for
>patents in 87 countries worldwide. The patent
is pending at the European
>Patent Office, in Canada, Australia, Japan
and South Africa. USDA should be
>asked to abandon all international
patent applications, and to revoke
>Terminator patents that have already
issued, on the basis of public
>morality as provided in Article 27(2) of
GATT TRIPS.
>
>The Terminator technology is the subject of
controversy and debate
>worldwide. For example:
>
>…
In May, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological
>Diversity (COP IV) recommended that the precautionary principle be
applied
>to the Terminator technology. COP IV also directed its
scientific body to
>examine the technology's impact on farmers and
biodiversity. In light of
>the Biodiversity Convention's ongoing
assessment, USDA should cease
>negotiations that will lead to its
commercial development.
>
>… India's agriculture minister
Som Pal told the Indian parliament in August
>that he has banned the
import of seeds containing the terminator gene
>because of the potential
harm to Indian agriculture.
>
>… By majority vote, the
Dutch Parliament recently moved to oppose the
>European Patent Directive
by appealing to the European Court of Justice.
>The Terminator patent is
one of the key issues that prompted the Dutch to
>renew objections to the
Patent Directive that was passed by the European
>Parliament earier this
year.
>
>Negotiations between USDA and Monsanto are now underway,
it is important to
>act now! Stop Monsanto's bid to license and control
the dangerous
>Terminator technology. E-mail messages and/or faxes should
be sent to the
>following USDA officials and members of Congress. To see
sample letters,
>and automatic sending options, go to RAFI's web site:
>http://www.rafi.org/usda.html
>-----
>The Honorable Dan
Glickman,
>Secretary of Agriculture
>United States Department of
Agriculture
>200-A Whitten Bldg.
>1400 Independence Ave., SW
>Washington DC 20250
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>tel: 202 720-3631
>fax: 202 720-2166
>
>Dr. Floyd
P. Horn, Administrator
>USDA Agricultural Research Service
>302-A
Whitten Building
>1400 Independence Ave., SW
>Washington
DC 20250
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Tel: 202 720-3656
>Fax: 202 720-5427
>
>The Honorable Robert F. Smith, Chair
>House Agriculture Committee
>1126 Longworth Bldg.
>Washington DC 20515-3702
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Tel: 202 225-6730
>Fax:
202 225-0917
>
>The Honorable Richard G. Lugar, Chair
>Senate Agriculture Committee
>306 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
>Washington DC 20510-1401
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Tel: 202 224-4814
>Fax: 202 224-1725
>
>
>
>
>
>Mary Denham, State Coordinator Take Back Arkansas,
Inc.
>2167 N. Porter Rd. Fayetteville, AR 72704
>Fax 501/521-1724 Pho 501/521-1933
>TBA
website http://www.nwark.com/~tbark
>
>
>
>
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