Monsanto in the dock: Rolling back the destructive influence of the global agribusiness cartel
As the rest of the world eats denutrified, poisoned ‘food’ and
capitulates to the criminal cartel of US agribusiness, as India destroys
its soils with petrochemical-monocrop agriculture and looks to GMOs, as
corrupt governments and regulatory bodies do the bidding of Monsanto,
Russia is committed to not selling out the health of millions, the
fertility of the land or the food security of the nation to a handful of
criminals in the West who have destroyed indigenous agriculture across
the planet.
Russia could become the world’s largest supplier of ecologically
clean and high-quality organic food. On Thursday, President Vladimir
Putin while addressing the Russian parliament called on the country to
become completely self-sufficient in food production by 2020:
“We are not only able to feed
ourselves taking into account our lands, water resources – Russia is
able to become the largest world supplier of healthy, ecologically clean
and high-quality food which the Western producers have long lost,
especially given the fact that demand for such products in the world
market is steadily growing.”
Russia is already developing a strategy to build up its domestic food production and is in a good position given its extremely fertile soils.
The government has already banned the import and planting of GM food and crops, and, according to Willian Engdahl,
the language on Russian media news sites that punishment for knowingly
introducing GMO crops into Russia illegally should have a punishment
comparable to that given to terrorists for knowingly hurting people.
The other good news is that on the same day that Putin made his
statement, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International
Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI) and Millions Against
Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental
justice groups, announced that they would be putting Monsanto on trial
for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, in The Hague, the
Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.
According to the Monsanto Tribunal website, the company promotes an agro-industrial model that:
Contributes at least one third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
Is largely responsible for the depletion of soil and water resources,
species extinction and declining biodiversity and the displacement of
millions of small farmers worldwide
Is a model that threatens peoples’ food sovereignty by patenting seeds and privatising life
