If that wasn't baffling enough, the founder of Syngenta, the same biotech giant joining Bayer in suing Europe to keep selling bee-killing pesticides, will also win the prize - and with it, a share of the $250,000 prize money. We cannot allow this prize to legitimize frankenfoods and bee killers. The ceremony is in less than two weeks, so we need to act now.
Winning this prize will encourage the wider use of genetically engineered crops and be a huge obstacle to those fighting to investigate the long-term effects of its frankenseeds - which is exactly what Monsanto wants. In 2008, Monsanto made a $5 million pledge to the World Food Prize Foundation, part of its plan to buy the credibility it can't legitimately earn. By handing its benefactor this award, the Foundation risks undermining the credibility of the most respected prize in agriculture.
In protest, 81 Councilors of the World Future Council have penned a statement blasting the World Food Prize Foundation for betraying its purpose. In the words of the esteemed authors:
"GMO seeds reinforce a model of farming that undermines sustainability of cash-poor farmers, who make up most of the world's hungry... The most dramatic impact of such dependency is in India, where 270,000 farmers, many trapped in debt for buying seeds and chemicals, committed suicide between 1995 and 2012."Despite the criticism, Monsanto and Syngenta executives are set to receive their prize on World Food Day, October 16 - a slap in the face to everyone harmed by their products. We don't have much time, so we need to publicize this obscene decision - if enough of us get word of this out, and let people know the World Food Prize is threatening its reputation, we can shame it into choosing a more suitable candidate.
Genetically-modified crops do not deserve the highest praise. Don't reward Monsanto and Syngenta.
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here's the list of of WFP donors, both Monsanto and Syngenta are on it
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Depopulation at any cost to eliminate 80 percent of us so the 20 percent can take part in the new phase of man, a life compared to paradise on earth. Ever wonder why we the People stopped hearing of any life altering and beneficial inventions since the 1950s? The 1900s where whirling in inventions, but they stopped after WW2. Everything went black to the river Styx when inventors who should have been executed at Nuremberg covertly walked into freedom thru the vatican to the U.S. and parts unknown paid by our taxes to bring these inventions to fruition.
-I once read, "We will build the 1,000 year reich on the ruins of the United States."?
- In 1967, Monsanto entered into a joint venture with IG Farben. (The) German chemical firm that was the financial core of the Hitler regime, and was the main supplier of Zyklon-B to the German government during the extermination phase of the Holocaust.โ ?