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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://articles.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx</link><description>Over 1,500 farmers in the agricultural Indian state of Chattisgarh have committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure. The state was hit hard by falling water levels. Bharatendu Prakash, of the Organic Farming Association of India, said</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#195894</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:195894</guid><dc:creator>ImJustHealthConscious</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The sad thing is that Monsantos will continue this dark trend until enough people stand up to them and take them down right into bankruptcy. Monsanto is owned by the rich and corrupt elites who are trying to control everyone with food and supplies. If we don&amp;#39;t all &amp;nbsp;do something now while we still have enough health to react, we will regret it later.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=195894" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#194057</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:18:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:194057</guid><dc:creator>analisa</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Did you know that Monsanto&amp;#39;s Roundup weed killer contains deadly ingrediants not listed on the label, they are activated when you add water &amp;amp; are not required by law to list. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I knew someone years ago who was on a jury &amp;nbsp;in a lawsuit against Monsanto for 57 deaths from use of Roundup. I asked him why he didn&amp;#39;t go public with this. He said because he&amp;#39;d be dead! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They are doing the same thing in Mexico with &amp;nbsp;their gmo corn seeds &amp;nbsp;endangering Mexico&amp;#39;s diverse corn varieties.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the movie &amp;quot;The Future of Food&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=194057" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#193732</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 05:53:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:193732</guid><dc:creator>skip smyth</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;GREED ! One of the &amp;#39;deadly&amp;#39; seven, Narrowly I always believed this was for the greedly ones themselves, or are we all greedy ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=193732" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#193165</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:48:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:193165</guid><dc:creator>deb_snyder</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I have been following the evils of Monsanto et al, for sometime now. I even based a presentation on the subject, and found very helpful information on Dr. Mercola&amp;#39;s website. I just don&amp;#39;t know what we can do to fight them. If 7 out of 10 foods are GM, and they are not required to label as such, how DO we fight them? The amount of people who have no idea that this is going on stuns me. I don&amp;#39;t want this to sound like I have &amp;#39;given up&amp;#39; but how do we &amp;#39;refuse&amp;#39; Monsanto&amp;#39;s evils, if we aren&amp;#39;t even aware that they exist....Fortunately, the research I did for the presentation opened my eyes, and I am as diligent as possible to avoid GM products or suspected GM products, but I have the feeling that I am still consuming them! This insidious threat worries me greatly - and is probably responsible for my issues with sleep (both literally and figuratively)!!! How do we repair the damage that Monsanto et al has done? Grrrr, this duping of the population just gets me on my soapbox.....thank you for listening!!!!! &amp;nbsp;DS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=193165" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#193054</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:25:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:193054</guid><dc:creator>ngales758</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you Tim McMahon - I just signed the petition at the site www.leavemyfoodalone.org site.and sent it to a bunch of friends and family too. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Food is so much less nutritious than it was many years ago and they are just creating monsters with all this genetic engineering stuff. &amp;nbsp;I look forward to those fresh farm stands - leave the farmers alone!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=193054" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#193050</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:59:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:193050</guid><dc:creator>joec_203</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I consider Monsanto to be a &amp;nbsp;new genocidal weapon Who ever controls the food controls the world The oldest &amp;nbsp;weapons are food shortage &amp;nbsp;and disease &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Know that we are under attack Buy heirloom seeds save them Hide them &amp;nbsp;they may be more valuable than Gold or Silver&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=193050" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#193039</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:59:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:193039</guid><dc:creator>DocPeppe</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Check out what monsanto and John Fryer&amp;#39;s chemo-buddies did to Hawaii. &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQDOdnRBLqc&amp;amp;feature=channel"&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; John Fryer sounds like he gets a nice little mansanto blood money check. &amp;nbsp;Does John Fryer use pharmaceuticals to ease his conscious at nite in order to get some sleep? &amp;nbsp;Who knows the John Fryer abberration? John, give it up...you are so out of your league, kinda like walter mondale speaking in a church.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=193039" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192999</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:44:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192999</guid><dc:creator>mollis</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t even no where to begin on this subject because there are so many facets to it. I have watched the future of our food and I am furious! When we &amp;quot;the government&amp;quot; allowed companies to patent nature. That&amp;#39;s when companies like Monsanto said &amp;quot; I can make it better than God&amp;quot; and the government agreed, based on the opportunity to make a profit themselves. It won&amp;#39;t change until we&amp;quot; the people&amp;quot; vote the greedy politicians out of office and put a term limit on them. They &amp;quot;the government&amp;quot; also has given subsidies to farmers to plant the least thing on the food pyramid that we should eat, instead of the fruits and vegies we need, because of profit! We as &amp;quot;the people&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;also have to also have educate those around us and increase the demand on the market for Organic to be the standard not the exception. I have worked in the health care field for over 15 yrs now and it&amp;#39;s only getting worse. When will people realize, you only get out of your body what you put into it!. There is no accountability on patients who want to eat &amp;quot;Junk&amp;quot; food, drink HFCS and abuse their bodies any way they want, then want a pill from big pharma to fix their problems. Now I realize that not all American&amp;#39;s are like this but there is a vast amount of American&amp;#39;s who are. We spend 80% of our health care on chronic conditions such as HTN and DM type 2 Which unless are hereditary, are preventable conditions! &amp;nbsp;I believe western medicine has it&amp;#39;s place but prevention should be the focus! Unfortunately the health care system has become a business like everything else due to big pharma. I am ready to go into the holistic side of health care as soon as possible!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192999" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192981</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 11:47:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192981</guid><dc:creator>deepgreenmoss</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I try not to carry any negative stuff in my heart, but I really hate this company. If I was going to go to war, it&amp;#39;s not the Taliban or the Iraqis or the or anyone else I&amp;#39;d go after, but these merciless profit consumed thugs. It&amp;#39;s terrible to have this hate in my heart.This company makes me sick just thinking about them, never mind buying any of their products.I hope every one of their employees, share owners, executive, never gets to eat a morsel of real food for the rest of their lives. God help me for hating these people so much.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192981" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192946</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:21:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192946</guid><dc:creator>SunSet</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Food Democracy Now wants people to “[w]rite Secretary Vilsack (AgSec@usda.gov ) and tell him to stand strong on food safety.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The same Vilsack who has no record on food safety, a strong record of support for Monsanto and genetic engineering, and oversaw a huge increase in CAFOs in Iowa and the loss of thousands of small farmers? How is he supposed to “stand strong” on something he has never stood on before and actually supports the opposite of? And he’s Monsanto’s boy and the guy who dreamed up the Monsanto laws that preemptively remove democracy from communities wishing to control what is planted on them or how farms are used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Food Democracy Now describes Taylor as:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto executive, whose career literally fits the definition of the revolving door between government, lobbying and corporate interests. Before serving on the Obama ag transition team, Taylor made a name for himself rotating in and out of law firms, Monsanto, the USDA and FDA. While at the FDA he helped write the rules to allow rBGH into the American food system and our children’s milk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192946" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192938</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:58:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192938</guid><dc:creator>SunSet</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Mussolini said that ’Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power’. Today we see the gathering global fascism in the merger of state and corporate power - with the corporate far more powerful than the political. This interconnecting web has allowed the corporations to integrate their ambitions and manipulations into political policy and never more powerfully than in the hijacking of the food chain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the mid-1990s, the Illuminati pesticide and chemical producers, notably Monsanto and Dow, began to buy the seed producers. Monsanto spent some eight billion dollars alone and Dr. Charles M Benbrook, former Board of Agriculture Director at the Academy of Sciences, said : ’Basically, the US pesticide industry bought the seed industry for all intents and purposes.’&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The intent and purpose was to control food production.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It has reached such ludicrous levels that even if seeds they don’t own are contaminated by genetically-modified seeds blown onto a farm from elsewhere, even a passing truck, the corporations are taking the farmers to court for illegal use of their patented seed without a license. This is happening to increasing numbers of farmers, including Percy Schmeiser in Canada who was well-known for developing his own seeds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dependency on Illuminati corporations for seeds. Dependency on Illuminati corporations for the pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers to make the seeds grow or survive. Dependency on Illuminati supermarkets which have destroyed independent stores and dictate the price they will pay to farmers. Dependency on Illuminati corporations for virtually everything that we eat or drink. Dependency = control and that is what this whole story is about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What is really sad, is knowing about the plight of the Indian farmer, and nothing is done about it. Don&amp;#39;t forget, we knew Stalin was killing 20 million of his people, and did nothing. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192938" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192927</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:02:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192927</guid><dc:creator>ConcernedMum</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Countries in Europe opposed the growing of gene manipulated seeds since a long time - a reaction of highly civilized countries. However, Monsanto was lucky in poor countries, where food is still priority to the population and where the price opposed to organic or not organic will determine the customer’s purchase. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To have the ignorance and change nature’s own sophisticated system is foolish. The killing of several animals in the food chain and the growing outbreaks of dengue fever in South America, thanks to GM crops is one sign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Only greed and bad conscious of such companies could lead to this outcome. That’s where the governments have the obligation to step in and prevent such catastrophic impact on nature and humans alike.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192927" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192918</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:24:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192918</guid><dc:creator>AtomDaBrain</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;JOHN FRYER...I know a scientist by the name of Shiva, who Is Indian and has spent many years on this deadly Issue my fellow mouthpiece.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are her equal, please tell me where and how many years you have studied this Issue. If these chemicals are not what you say then why are they banned In other countries?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have you checked the farmers death rate before and after the Monsanto Monsters came to life?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your not going to get too far on this site because these people know a bit more than the average person so your wasting your time and mine just now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am amazed by people like you. I can only hope you come out of your dream or abandon your twisted thinking and become human.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can just Imagine If this was done to you and yours. Would you still dance to this tune or maybe see yourself filing a lawsuit If you were able to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get real!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192918" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192913</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:06:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192913</guid><dc:creator>AtomDaBrain</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Holding your breath may end up killing you on this one. The monsters at Monsanto will keep spreading their seeds of death and I don&amp;#39;t see anything that makes me think their going to stop. We are living In the ultimate corrupted nation on earth today.People don&amp;#39;t see it easily because they hide and work In silence. I don&amp;#39;t blame Monsanto directly, I blame the tyrants In the government who are the one&amp;#39;s that shut their eyes and open their bottomless pockets to these Monsters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once corruption &amp;nbsp;sets In well, don&amp;#39;t expect a peaceful withdrawal. History Is proof positive!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=192913" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx#192910</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:32:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:192910</guid><dc:creator>Otorongo</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Dear Halo84,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While I respect the position you are, in the work that you to feed the world, but therein lies the problem. Farmers, since DDT came along have been hynotized into believing that they must have more land to produce crops to feed the world. Additionally that they will have higher yields if they use chemical fertilizers, herbisides and pestisides. This could not be further from the truth! &amp;nbsp;People have been stratigically taken away from the land to work in factories, while a few are left feeding &amp;quot;the world&amp;quot; or should I say the corporations that own you and your farms. It is very sad as you farmers are in no better place than the Indian farmers that have been duped into believing GM crops are the answer. Now we have RR, a medical disaster for the land, the wildlife and humans. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is unfortunate indeed, that farmers, the very people that love the land, their animals and engage in this labor of love, working so close to the earth every day are being used and abused and coersed into being a part of the disaster of farming and food that we have today.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The answer is (Small sustainable farms), to feed &amp;quot;the community&amp;quot; NOT &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;the world.&amp;quot; More small farms, the return of diversity of food and respect for cultural practices are imperitive for our survival on this planet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes! Yes! Yes! Monsanto is Evil! But I have not heard anyone say what needs to be done. Put you money where your mouth is and &amp;nbsp;Quite simply, Don&amp;#39;t buy anything that&amp;#39;s a GM Food, contains GM food in it, &amp;nbsp;or livestock that has been fed GM grains.. We can do this, there are more of us than there are of them and A company that is not making any money WILL go under....&lt;/p&gt;
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