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RT: How serious is this ruling for farmers who are caught out growing GM crops through no fault of their own?
William Engdahl: It's quite serious and it's really outrageous that the Supreme Court has once again taken the side of Monsanto on the GMO cartel and ruled against natural farming. The implications of this are huge because, first of all, Monsanto lied in its statement to the Supreme Court. They lied brazenly by saying they never had and never will sue farmers for inadvertent contamination of their fields. But they have sued countless farmers - Percy Schmeiser, a farmer in Canada, is a vivid example of that. Monsanto has a team of lawyers that go out and terrorize farmers in the US and Canada. When the wind blows the seeds from a Monsanto field across to a non-Monsanto field it says, "OK, now you have to pay." This is like a mafia selling protection.
RT: Surely Monsanto has to protect its copyright and keep the threat of suing farmers, it spent huge amounts of money developing the genetically modified seeds after all.
WE: This is a part of the monopoly pushed by Monsanto. They are buying up seed companies all around the world to take ownership of the proprietary seeds. This is a concentration of power over the human food chain. The first ruling in the Supreme Court in the 1990s that you can patent life, that you can take a patent on life by injecting a foreign gene - that was a false decision to begin with. There has been a whole sequence since it, and it's the influence buying of the agribusiness that made it possible. That's a horrendous development for the future of food security in the world.
Comment: Hawaiian citizens wouldn't say 'Aloha' to GMO's period! Aloha has many translations, one of those translations is LOVE, another is the joyful (oha) sharing (alo) of life energy (ha) in presence. Alo also means light and ha means breath, when Hawaiians say Alo-ha in the islands it means sharing the breath of light and life with others.
Hawaiians would say A'ole to GMO's which means NO to GMO's! There is an ongoing battle in Hawaii to protect the land and natural resources for future generations, a battle that is taken very seriously.
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono a well-known Hawaiian phrase was adopted as the motto of the state of Hawaiʻi. As such, it is commonly translated as "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness". The biotechnology industry is desperate to keep and maintain their open air experimentation projects, hoping the residents stay ignorant and uninformed, wishful thinking, on the part of biotechnology interests will not change the course that anti GMO activists are taking. Activists are sharing the breath of light and life with others, they are speaking out and sharing their knowledge with the world:
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