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I am forwarding an article from the subject newsletter.  You may find this
interesting, horrifying, etc.  You may wish to respond and cast your vote. 
Or you may do as many others have and not believe it.  But I think everyone
who has anything to do with gardening should be aware.

Chris Spence
NC
chspence@deolira.com
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> 
> > --The USDA is licensing internationally a technology that can put our
> herbs
> > at risk, reduce biodiversity and cause widespread famine or expensive
> > food crops.  Montsanto's Delta and Pine Land subsidiary is applying to
> > license a genetically altered technology (developed with US tax
monies!)
> > that will cause sterility in second generation seeds. Farmers would be
> > forced to purchase seeds from Montsanto every year instead of saving
> > seeds. National applications for this technology are moving forward -
or
> > have issued - in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, South Africa, most
> > European countries, and 
> > probably more jurisdictions.
> > 
> > Scientists warn that, under certain conditions, the trait for seed
> > sterility will flow, via pollen, from Terminator crops to surrounding
> > plants, making the seeds of neighboring plants sterile.  This has two
> > implications.  First, farmers who do not purchase Montsanto seeds may
> > find that their  saved seeds are sterile, causing widespread famine and
> > die off of annual plants.  Heirloom strains could die off, by picking
up
> > the inability to reproduce through cross pollination. Secondly, weeds
and
> > wild plants which are growing adjacent to Terminator crops may also
pick
> > up the sterility characteristics.
> > 
> > Secondly, the seeds will have tetracycline residues, which can alter
the
> > probiotic balance of our bodies, those of wild animals which feed upon
> > the crops and soil bacteria. Since it is unlikely that such crops will
be
> > identified in grocery stores, people will harm their bodies
> > unsuspectingly.
> > 
> > Please visit the site at http://www.rafi.org/usda.html to stop
> > Montsanto's genetically altered  seeds with "terminator " genes.  You
can
> > easily send off letters to:
> > 
> > The Honorable Dan Glickman
> > Secretary of Agriculture
> > 200-A Whitten Bldg.
> > 1400 Independence Ave., SW
> > Washington  DC  20250
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > admars@ars.usda.gov
> > bob.smith@mail.house.gov
> > senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov
> > 
> > For those that are interested in participating in a Monsanto boycott
the
> > website listing their products :
> > http://www.monsanto.com/Monsanto/Products/List/default.htm
> > Basically, Monsanto is dominant in several areas: herbicides,
artificial
> > sweeteners, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and genetically
> > engineered seeds; but it has a significant presence in many additional
> > areas, including birth control pills, insomnia drugs, etc.
> > Its herbicides are sold under many different names:  Roundup and the
> entire
> > Ortho line of garden products and books. The sweeteners also have a
> variety of
> > names, including NutraSweet and Equal. Ambien is the insomnia treatment
> and
> > Arthrotec the arthritis drug. Then there are the seeds and foods,
> including
> > what has already been
> > mentioned on the list, NewLeaf potatoes.  It has genetically engineered
> > soybeans, corn, cotton, and many other products and is presenting its
> > "science" as a solution to global hunger and so on.  
> > (submitted by Ingrid Naiman)
> > 
> > and one more comment
> > Talking about Monsanto, a well-known dietary supplement company is now
> "in
> > bed" with them...
> > "Solgar Vitamin and Herb Co is being sold to healthcare and
> pharmaceutical
> > giant American Home Products Corporation (AHP) - which is itself
merging
> > with biotech and genetic engineering firm Monsanto. The deal was signed
> on
> > 3 June and is due to be completed by mid-July."
> > First para of a report by Diane Mills in the UK trade paper Natural
> > Products News, Summer 1998, Number 47, p1.
> > Simon.
> > 
> > 
> >


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