Yesterday EXXON was highlighted, today, it's MONSANTO

. . . along with Coca Cola (drying up wells) and a few other titans of that ilk, causing increasing levels of suicide among farmers and villagers in India. . . and didn't the Supreme Court just genuflect ever more deeply at the altar of such transnational deitys. Permitting them ever more power, here in the US, and also across the world . . . 

ISIS Press Release 09/02/10 

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A 12-Year Saga of Farm Suicides in India 

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In 2006-08, Maharastra saw 12 493 farm suicides, 85 percent 

higher than the 6 745 suicides it recorded during 1997-1999, 

and the worst three year period for any State at any time 

despite huge government debt relief packages....

This article can be found on the I-SIS website at 

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/

GM in India

GM crops have a chequered history in India, alternately praised as yield-boosting or suicide-inducing. Trials of a Bt cotton found it needed 70% less pesticide and gave 87% more crop than traditional plants. It was made by Monsanto, who provoked uproar by taking a patent over nap hal, wheat particularly suited to chapatis, but saying it had no plans to exploit the patent. The bitterest row has involved the claim, by Prince Charles among others, that failing GM crops led to suicides among farmers. Analysis by the International Food Policy Research Institute found that, if anything, the reverse was true. By 2006, Bt cotton covered 39% of cotton area, with yield doubled. India is the world's second largest cotton producer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/08/india-gm-crops-aubergine


Credoaction's way to voice opposition to Monsanto et al:


http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/monsanto_alfalfa/?r=5258&id=7695-701030-eIuR5gx