Additionally, after finding the seed produced a poor quality cotton that fetched low prices for the farmers who chose to grow it, Burkina Fasso in West Africa also recently rejected Monsanto’s Bt cotton seed.
Additionally, after finding the seed produced a poor quality cotton that fetched low prices for the farmers who chose to grow it, Burkina Fasso in West Africa also recently rejected Monsanto’s Bt cotton seed.
Great news… next, Amazon!!!
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Sha’Tara, I have to say I really like the way you think.
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YESS……..
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Indeed.
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I hope India sticks to its indigenous crops goals. Cotton isn’t the only Bt product, and Monsanto (now subsumed under Bayer) is a wily Shape Shifting Alien Reptile that has no scruples. I think we’re going to find that GM crops are inferior in every way. Let’s hope we find out sooner rather than later.
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Katherine, I think it’s important to give proper credit to the grassroots seed saving and other movements, led by Vendana Shiva and Arundhati Roy in getting farmers to reject GM crops – despite major pressure put on them by the Indian government. Major shifts like this don’t occur without major struggle.
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