USA forces Iraq to use GE Food! Are you the next victim of USA atrocities? : Melbourne Indymedia

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When former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer III left Baghdad after the so-called "transfer of sovereignty" in June 2004, he left behind the 100 orders he enacted as chief of the occupation authority in Iraq. Among them is Order 81 on "Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety."

What the new law will actually do is facilitate the penetration of Iraqi agriculture by the likes of Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and Dow Chemical -- the corporate giants that control seed trade across the globe. Eliminating competition from farmers is a prerequisite for these companies to open up operations in Iraq, which the new law has achieved. Taking over the first step in the food chain is their next move.

For generations, small farmers in Iraq operated in an essentially unregulated, informal seed supply system. Farm-saved seed and the free innovation with and exchange of planting materials among farming communities has long been the basis of agricultural practice.

This has been made illegal under the new law.

The seeds farmers are now allowed to plant -- "protected" crop varieties brought into Iraq by transnational corporations in the name of agricultural reconstruction -- will be the property of the corporations.

This new law means that Iraqi farmers can neither freely legally plant nor save for re-planting seeds of any plant variety registered under the plant variety provisions of the new patent law. This deprives farmers what they and many others worldwide claim as their inherent right to save and replant seeds.

Historically the Iraqi constitution prohibited private ownership of biological resources, the new US-imposed patent law introduces a system of monopoly rights over seeds.

The new patent law also explicitly promotes the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM or GE) seeds in Iraq. Despite serious resistance from farmers and consumers around the world, these same companies are pushing GM crops on farmers around the world for their own profit. Contrary to what the industry is asserting, GM seeds do not reduce the use of pesticides, but they pose a threat to the environment and to people's health while they increase farmers dependency on agribusiness.

In some countries like India, the 'accidental' release of GM crops is deliberately manipulated, since physical segregation of GM and GM-free crops is not feasible. Once introduced into the agro-ecological cycle there is no possible recall or cleanup from genetic pollution.

Renewable Energy:
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Eliminate Hunger:
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Organic Farming will Feed the World:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23305/index.php

Organic Technology for gardeners and farmers:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23304/index.php

Waste not, Want Not:
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Allotments UK:
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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA):
http://www.cuco.org.uk/index.php?page=3

Please support LOCAL Organic FAMILY farmers. Thank you!!!
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23303/index.php
http://www.localharvest.org

USAID forces other countries to use GE Crops and destroy Local Farmers.
Is our country next on Monsanto's Hit List?
http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=3763

USA puts farmers and gardeners in Prisons. Are You next?
Will the USA take away your Job and ravish your Family?
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23310/index.php
http://www.percyschmeiser.com
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/seedsaving031405.cfm

GE Food:
http://www.grain.org/nfg/?id=319
http://www.gmfoodnews.com/in220505.txt
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23307/index.php

http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23306/index.php
http://www.gmfoodnews.com/gp100505.txt

USA Chemical Pesticides are devastating Children worldwide.
Is your child safe?
http://www.bhopal.net http://www.calhealthyschools.org http://www.watoxics.org http://www.pesticidereform.org http://www.healthyschoolscampaign.org http://www.safe2use.com

USA corporation POISONS CHILDREN.
Is your child at risk?
http://www.bibleplus.org/health/ms_lupus.htm

How stupid are the Americans?
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23308/index.php

Smart Car:
http://www.smart.com

Keep our country and community strong like a rock. Please ban all GM foods from our country. Please refrain from purchasing or consuming any product containing GM materials. Please support LOCAL Organic FAMILY farmers. Please use sustainable technology. Please help disabled people, older people and poor people to grow their own organic food. Luke 10:29 THANK YOU for your help!!!

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