martedì 18 ottobre 2011

Monsanto seeds, Raytheon Missiles and the Navajo farm


The Navajo commercial farm, Navajo Agricultural Products Industries, on the Navajo Nation, is still using genetically-modified Monsanto seeds and promoting these seeds that are destroying the lives of Indigenous Peoples and farmers around the world.

Around the world, Monsanto seeds ruin region's crops through cross pollination and damage peoples' health by way of eating genetically-modified foods.

NAPI grows corn and other products commercially for potato chips and other products.

The NAPI farm is the same farm where Raytheon Missiles has a factory on the Navajo farmland. (This is one of the issues censored by Indian Country Today just before they fired me.)

Navajo Agricultural Products Industries, in northwest New Mexico, says on its website, "We purchase our seed from Pioneer Seed Company, Syngenta Inc., and Monsanto, companies producing the best quality genetic hybrid corn seed on the market today."

The products are sold under the name of Navajo Pride.

Meanwhile, farmers in Haiti burn Monsanto seeds, Mayans in Guatemala boycott Monsanto seeds, and in India, farmers committed mass suicide because of their inability to survive due to the high cost of Monsanto seeds.

Every thirty minutes an Indian farmer commits suicide and in the last sixteen years, more than a quarter of a million farmers have died. Some claim a major cause is poor yields leading to mounting debt, an increased need for pesticides, and the higher cost of the Bt cotton seed sold by Monsanto. -- Wikipedia

TAR SANDS ACTION RETURNS TO DC ON NOV. 6:
The Tar Sands are already destroying the homelands and waterways of the Cree and First Nations in Canada. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline is an environmental disaster in the making. It would run from Canada to Texas, across the massive Ogalalla Aquifer, and carry highly corrosive oil. There is a high risk of deadly spills, which would contaminate the heartland's water supplies and crops, Indian country and the south.
Read more:
http://www.tarsandsaction.org

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