As
we rally around our County lands and worry whether “Mr. Monsanto” or
his associates is planning to buy some or all of the Hamakua parcels
...hey, why bother --- these guys are way ahead of us... By way of
federal legislation, HR 875, this multi-national intends to take over
ALL US agriculture by controling the seed industry and requiring that
their chemicals be used on all farming operations. Sadly I am not joking.

Right now Monsanto and several other GMO related multinationals are
in the process of gathering the votes to pass a bill in the US Congress
that will virtually make it illegal to use seeds they have not approved
and to require that certain of their chemical poisons be applied to all
crops no matter what you label your farm or home garden – organic or
home grown or otherwise. The stated justification for this nazi like
control scheme is “to make sure there is no danger to the public food
supply.”

This legislation is expected to be brought up for a vote within the
next two weeks and you will not know what happened to our food and our
lives until it is too late. A tad of humor: the bill is called the
“Food Safety and Modernization Act”. Guess who is a co-sponsor? I
believe it to be Mazie Hirono!

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHAT YOU CAN DO TO
STOP THIS TRULY "TERRORISTIC" ATTACK on our food supply : go to
“CURRENT– GREEN” webstie : here.

And if you do not believe what you read there, read for yourself the
text of the bill from US Government site: Text of HR 875 "Food Safety
and Modernization Act": here.

Here is the typical Q & A about what is going on:

Question Asked: There was mention of having to comply with using the pesticides etc even in a back yard garden... is this really true? -

Answered by a visitor- If it isnt in this bill S425, try HR 875
being pushed by Monsanto and other "Big Agro businesses! They are the
leading chemical and seed producing company for GMO seeds! They would
basically force any and all growers to use their GMO seeds or it would
be illegal to grow anything, even on your porch for your own
consumption! If this bill passes, they would very generically gain
control over everything grown and "how" to grow it! They are some of
the largest producers of the chemicals used in fertilizers and
pesticides. Think about it. What a way to "corner the market"! Another
note...have you heard of them suing farmers for using "heirloom" seeds
the farmers have grown for decades and for some reason, wind blowing,
birds, cross pollination, the GMO seeds are being found in that farmers
fields??? He didnt plant them, but a lot of farmers are losing their
farms or getting paid "settlements" to give up. Check it out! Remember
this...there are several ways to control a poplulation...Who controls
the gold, makes the rules, who owns the seeds control the farmers and
the food market, now there is legislature trying to "Nationalize" the
water supplies! Fear is the 4th and most used tactic to control the
masses. Sorry for the long answer, but these things are "happening now"
and people need to open their eyes to stop it (if we can...)!!!

The following information gathered by Thomas McCain (my brother):

Here’s the “scoop” about Monsanto:

Monsanto is, by the informed public to be "the most

hated, non-environmentally concerned, company in the world." BBC news

The short brief here includes;

1) Monsanto invented Agent Orange the proliferant used in Vietnam.

2) Round-Up, a pesticide known to be the most toxic poison sold publically.

3) Monsanto on Molokai stealing water from farmers.

4) History of Monsanto patenting India's indigenous neem seed,

a natural pesticide, into a chemical neem seed and selling it back to farmers worldwide.

5) A short comment on Monsanto by British ecologist Anthony Burton.

" Who is Monsanto? The world's largest supplier of herbicides,
bioengineered seeds, and hormones to increase milk production. Its
primary product is Roundup and its goal is global dominance of the food
supply.

Roundup and its cousins are marketed under about 90 different names. In
1997, Monsanto lost a lawsuit and agreed to stop using the terms
"bio-degradable" and "environmentally friendly" in its advertising.
Why? Because these products would appear to be direct descendents of
Agent Orange, the company's most infamous product. The company has
stated that Roundup is safer than table salt but independent analyses
show that the product contains 41% glyphosate and the rest is

water and any of 2300 other chemicals that are 'trade secrets'.

The primary byproduct of herbicide manufacture is dioxin, a chemical described by some as the most toxic on the Planet."

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9/3/09 Article from UK based website Fred Pearce's Greenwash at guardian.co.uk (Exposing False Environmental Claims)

"MONSANTO--'WATER BULLY' ON MOLOKAI, I'd Say:

Of course, despite the company's public pledge to "share knowledge and
technology" the company's corporate aim is to make sure that farmers
buy Monsanto-patented water-efficient seeds by the trillion.

But you would expect Monsanto to be especially sensitive about how
it manages water in its own farming operations, and particularly to
show concern for how neighbouring farmers are facing up to water
shortages. Wouldn't you?

The scene shifts to the Hawaiian island of Molokai. This is an old
stomping ground of Monsanto's. It is the largest employer and the
island is sometimes known as "the birthplace of biotechnology" and "the
Silicon valley of the seed corn industry".

This is where Monsanto does a lot of its research into GM crops such
as maize, and where it grows many of the seeds it sells to farmers
round the world.

Nature on Molokai has suffered badly from the invasion of Monsanto
and other big-farm companies. In recompense, Monsanto puts money into a
Nature Conservancy programme on the island to "preserve biodiversity
and protect water sources".

The company has nonetheless gained a bad reputation there as a water
bully. As a local journalist wrote there last year in the Molokai
Dispatch, "Monsanto's thirst for more water" threatens its future on
the island. "Like most large corporations, Monsanto's number one
priority is to maximise profits. In this case it means planting as many
acres as possible, and using a lot of water," wrote Todd Yamashita.

Recently, during a drought that emptied reservoirs and forced the
local irrigation company to demand 20% water cutbacks from local
farmers, Monsanto insisted on the right to take more water and lobbied
for a new aquifer to be tapped.

In law, two-thirds of the water from the Molokai irrigation system
should go to homestead farmers. In practice big landowners, especially
Monsanto, take 84% of the irrigation system's water consumption.
Monsanto alone, according to Yamashita, takes almost twice as much
water as all 200 homesteaders.

So I think I have this right. In the cause of developing crops that
will allow the world's farmers to use less water, Monsanto is so
overusing the water in its own backyard that local farmers are have
resorted to legal action to get their water back. As the Molokai
Dispatch's headline has it: 'Monsanto could be its own worst enemy'."

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Anthony Burton, Scottish ecologist/Naturalist, 2007:

"MONSANTO HAS 95% OF ALL SEED PATENTS--wheat, soybean, rice, etc...--- ON PLANET EARTH

and most of these patents were obtained by their high-tech altering one
molecule in an otherwise "natural" seed and claiming in patent court
that their seed was now "different". They sell most of the world's
seeds to farmers and most of the world's herbicides and pesticides and
they even patented neem!, the indigenous and natural pesticide, used
for centuries by Indian farmers who mashed the neem tree seed and
diluted them with water and splashed it around their crop fields

to keep away bugs, prey insects etc.

:

MONSANTO WENT TO INDIA IN THE '60'S, hair-split the indigenous neem seed,

claimed in Indian Patent Court, it had "invented" a neem seed/pesticide. Got the neem patent. And sold theirs back to

Indian farmers, helpless victims of Monsanto money/greeed monster and to this day buy Monsanto

neem pesticide products. Real evil company. Stay away from it and their GM gentically modified foods which basically

cut open the genetic molecular structure of Nature's seeds, alter them in Jeckyl and Hude fashion, and

patent them, sell and grow them and in the end the consumer--you, me and livestock etc.--gets foods lacking

in original nutrient structure and weaken the organism, us!, who/that consumes them."