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This article is from 2004; however, it is an on-going fight with corporations manipulating governments around the world for the sake of profit. The people they say they are helping are the very ones they enslave.
"Doctors thought they had an infectious disease, but when four families left the village and recovered, and then showed the same symptoms on return, an environmental cause was suspected."
Its important to hold these companies accountable and keep these issues in the public's mind. The exploitation of third world nations is beyond anything I could have imagined. The patent laws protecting seeds are preposterous and dangerous to the freedom and health of all humanity.
#1 - Mon Jun 7, 2010 5:02 AM EDTIn Iraq - Order 81
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2005/Iraq-US-Agribusiness-Profit15mar05.htm
Deborah James, global economy director at Global Exchange, calls seed-saving prohibitions like Order 81 "one of the biggest assaults on food security." Farmers, she explains, would be forced "to buy from multinational corporations like Monsanto, instead of doing what farmers have done throughout the millennia: guaranteeing food security by saving seed varieties."
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