Monsanto to Be Put on Trial for ‘Crimes Against Nature and Humanity’
Monsanto to Be Put on Trial for ‘Crimes Against Nature and Humanity’
The Organic Consumers Association, IFOAM International Organics,
Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI) and Millions Against Monsanto,
joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice
groups announced last week that they will put Monsanto,
a U.S.-based transnational corporation, on trial for crimes against
nature and humanity and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on
World Food Day, Oct. 16, 2016.
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The announcement was made at a press conference held in conjunction with the COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
“The time is long overdue for a global citizens’ tribunal to put
Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity and the environment,” Ronnie Cummins,
international director of the Organic Consumers Association and Via
Organica, said. “We are in Paris this month to address the most serious
threat that humans have ever faced in our 100-200,000 year
evolution—global warming and climate disruption. Why is there so much
carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere and not
enough carbon organic matter in the soil? Corporate agribusiness,
industrial forestry, the garbage and sewage industry and agricultural
biotechnology have literally killed the climate-stabilizing, carbon-sink
capacity of the Earth’s living soil.”
Vandana Shiva, physicist, author, activist and founder of Navdanya agrees. “Monsanto has pushed GMOs
in order to collect royalties from poor farmers, trapping them in
unpayable debt and pushing them to suicide,” she said. “Monsanto
promotes an agro-industrial model that contributes at least 50 percent
of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Monsanto is also
largely responsible for the depletion of soil and water resources,
species extinction and declining biodiversity and the displacement of
millions of small farmers worldwide.”
