Federal Judge in Argentina Accepts Class Action Lawsuit Against Monsanto
Will Monsanto be able to bully itself to victory?
While Monsanto tries to dodge a class action lawsuit in California by requesting that it be dismissed by the court, a federal judge in Argentina has accepted a class action lawsuit that would force GMO labeling and provisionally suspend the cultivation of genetically modified crops.
The lawsuit targets Monsanto for causing a seed monopoly through mono-cultivation. It argues for a complete ban on GMOs and on:
“. . .the application of pesticides used for farming until their safety for the environment, ecosystems, biodiversity, the health of living beings, the cultural heritage of the Argentine people, and the sustainability of the production model is scientifically proven.”
Residents of the country of Argentina believe that the commercialization of seed through companies like Monsanto should be forbidden. The lawsuit is titled:
“Gimenez Alicia Fanny and others against the national government, Monsanto and others, over environmental damage.”
Monsanto is not the only party listed as a defendant. Also listed are:
- The Argentine national government
- The Federal Council for the Environment
- A group of companies, including Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Novartis, Nidera, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer, Agrevo, Ciba Geigy, Argenbio, and Bayer Sciences
Previously, more than 30,000 doctors and health professionals in Argentina asked that glyphosate be banned. The doctors are part of FESPROSA, Argentina’s Union of medical professionals.
FESPROSA explained:
“In our country glyphosate is applied on more than 28 million hectares. Each year, the soil is sprayed with more than 320 million litres, which means that 13 million people are at risk of being affected, according to the Physicians Network of Sprayed Peoples (RMPF). Soy is not the only crop addicted to glyphosate: the herbicide is also used for transgenic maize and other crops. Where glyphosate falls, only GMOs can grow. Everything else dies.”
The doctors also talk about vindicating one of their own:
“Our trade union, the Federation of Health Professionals of Argentina (FESPROSA), which represents more than 30,000 doctors and health professionals in our country, includes the Social Health Collective of Andrés Carrasco. Andrés Carrasco was a researcher at [Argentine government research institute] CONICET, who died a year ago, and showed the damage caused by glyphosate to embryos. For disseminating his research, he was attacked by the industry and the authorities at CONICET. Today, WHO vindicates him.”
If the federal judge who reviews this case prior to the end of the month has any moral fiber, he will stand against Monsanto for a fair trial as Argentina has.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
I bet these bastards are now knowing what Custer’s last thoughts were!
We the people need to burn down and destroy Monsanto headquarters.
So now you are a terrorist. The truth is finally out.
Terrorist is really you, Monsatan Robert, who love to poison humanity with GMO foods.
Yes a well fed population would be harmful to your evil ideas. Why don’t you act like some of your other comrades and blow yourself up? Just try not to take any innocents with you.
You’re an idiot, Monsatan Robert, I don’t go around poisoning people with GMO foods with deadly herbicide like you. I’m believe in protect humanity from these corrupt foods. Have you notice about the employees at Monsanto have said they wouldn’t eat GMO foods, Monsatan Robert? If you think GMO foods are safe to eat, and why they wouldn’t eat it? That’s a good a question, right Monsatan Robert? That is your evil plan to poison humanity with GMO foods. That is an act of terrorism. Whole world would agree with that is an act terrorist where people like you promoting GMO foods. V. Putin, the leader of Russian, have said it too, the GMO foods is an act of “TERRORISM.”
LOL, you wish to quote Putin? Everyone knows he is a lunatic that is sponsoring terrorism in the Ukraine. And he is your hero? Only a simpleton like you would be against FEEDING PEOPLE. As far as who eats gmos, if you wouldn’t listen to an outdated fake report, then you would know that Monsanto serves many different types of food in their cafeterias, from gmos to organic, and they all get eaten. Personally, I can’t wait for the gmo sweet corn to be picked as it should be ready any day now from the local farm market. My gmo fed beef is at the locker and will be ready for my freezer next week.
You are the one biggest faker & liar, Monsatan Robert. You just never learn to do what is right, don’t you Monsatan Robert? Because your mind are so warp and backward and will not do what is moral things, to do what is natural way of God.
LOL Feeding his people seems to be very natural!!!
Monsatan Robert, the organic foods & farms has been going on for the thousand of years and since dawn of man that first walk on earth. It doesn’t need to be using dangerous herbicide nor adding and changing genetic of these plants.
There’s a better way to kill these pest in a natural way, by using Diatomaceous Earth, it’s a miracle dust to rid of these garden of 98% unwanted insects and bugs…..without dangerous chemicals. It is the most unusual substance on the planet is found naturally and can’t be patent by big chemical companies. And with hundreds of self-reliance and survivals uses…..it’s no wonder they don’t want you to know it even exist. Diatom dust come from the algae genus Melosira, a fresh water species of diatom. It is very effective enough to kills these insects and bugs by penetrate its waxy hard shell and it continue enter inside to absorb the moister, to dehydrate them to death.
Your diatomaceous earth has be studied and it has led to an increase in mice.
Bunch, T. R.; Bond, C.; Buhl, K.; Stone, D. 2013. Diatomaceous Earth General Fact Sheet; National Pesticide Information Center, Oregon State University Extension Services. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html.
As for who uses it, farmers have used it for years as a grain bin insecticide. So quit acting like it is a revelation. As for farming man started to change his food as soon as he started to cultivate it. He has changed it ever since. The only thing different now is the way he changes it.
His mind is warped by $$$$$$
I bet the food is labeled. How nice that people get to decide what they eat instead of being tricked by terrorists like you.
Been to a grocery store lately? A can of corn is labeled CORN. It doesn’t matter if it is gmo or not because it is nutritionally equal. If you don’t like it buy organic or move, because every time it was put before the people, the people voted it down.
There is a difference, you ignoramus. It is modified from what nature intended. Products produced by GMO seed lack nutrients as the soil is depleted by your poison. And when you say “People” I assume you mean Congress which is in no way the rhetoric of the people. Congress votes against labeling because Monsanto pays them to vote that way. Put it on a US election ballot and then we will see whether people want to know what they are eating and from where it came. Congress is corrupt, Monsanto has bought them, you should be so proud to represent them, You are definitely stupid enough to believe their bullshit.
The rate of poor fed by GMO seeds is so low that its not worth mentioning. Yes Monsanto feeds people but at what cost and with what type of garbage. The seeds and pesticide destroy ever other crop until farmers are totally reliant on Monsanto and their evil counterparts for food. Not the Mother Nature I know.
True gmos feed very few directly, but indirectly they feed billions. Mainly through livestock and dairy production as well as cooking oils. As far as your fantasies about Monsanto you simply do not know what you are talking about.
Yes so the meat they eat is also tainted and lacking in nutrition. You are the one who is living in a fantasy world. GMO companies have our government in their back pocket and that is why Monsanto gets away with its destruction of our food supply and making all farmers reliant on Monsanto to grow food. Other countries have seen the evil and are calling you out. I only wish it were a fantasy, it is reality. If GMO foods are so good, why is Monsanto and other evil doers against labeling??? and regulating???? Apparently you dont care what you eat. I do and would like to be able to choose whether or not to put poison in my body.
Where do you come up with this crap? There is NO difference in gmo fed meat and dairy vs. non gmo fed. You can’t even test for the gmos that why labeling never includes those products. There are several different types of gmos and first of all for you to lump them all together and say they are bad is just plain wrong. Even if one would be causing harm (which it isn’t) that doesn’t mean that all of them would. As far as you “other countries” are concerned why don’t you list them.
When will the US catch on?
When idiots whining about Monsanto learn to read a science book?