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Waar: Wageningen, Amsterdam, Bergschenhoek, Netherlands (GPS lat: 51.980000 lon: 4.500000)
Wanneer: 25/05/2013 - 15:34

25 mei 2013 wordt wereldwijd aangehouden door activisten als protestdag tegen het multinationale (GM-) zadenmonopolist en landbouwgifbedrijf Monsanto. In Nederland zijn er demonstraties in Wageningen, Amsterdam en Bergschenhoek. Ben jij de misdrijven van deze agro-gigant ook zo spuugzat? Sluit je aan, het is tijd om ons voedsel terug in eigen hand te nemen. Komende zondag en maandag info- en benefietavonden in A'dam. ASEED organiseert bus A'dam - Wageningen, het zenuwcentrum van de agroindustrie in Nederland.

[sorry, rest van deze oproep is alleen beschikbaar in het engels als gevolg van tijdgebrek. Vertaalhulp welkom! Maar Wageningse site is Nederlandstalig, zie http://www.linkepost.nl]

March Against Monsanto 25 May 2013

It's time to claim back our food and our seeds!

Let's join forces and March together against Monsanto

In the Netherlands:

Wageningen: WUR universiteit, Duivendaal, Costerweg 50. Start: 13u

Amsterdam: Dam @ 14u

Bergschenhoek: gemeentehuis Lansingerland @ 14u

For getting more backgrounds on Monsanto and to share thoughts on what to do about it:

Info Night - Sunday 19 May
@ De Valreep
20:00hr - Polderweg 620, Amsterdam
film: The Future of Food
infos about the action day

Benefit Voku - Monday 20 May
@ Joe's Garage
19:00hr, Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam
with inspiring action video and explanation about the March Against Monsanto

Bus from Amsterdam to Wageningen and back: 11am @Victoria Hotel opposite Central Station. Reserve a seat to be sure you can come, we ask a contribution of about 10 euros to cover the costs. Reserve via: info@aseed.net or 020-668 22 36.

What's the problem?

Monsanto is the biggest seed company in the world. They monopolise our food with GMOs and patents. They own 75% of the broccoli, paprika and tomato in Europe. 99% of the soy grown in Argentina is Roundup Ready from Monsanto. In The Netherlands Monsanto owns 2 mayor vegetable seed companies: De Ruiter and Seminis.
They force farmers to buy their seeds and their Roundup pesticide year after year, by taking over the seed market.
GMOs are an important powertool for Monsanto and the other seed giants. 80% of the GMOs is resistent to herbicides like Roundup (glyphosate), causing the poisoning of our food and environment.
An increasing number of scientific studies show that even in low quantities Roundup causes cancer, birth dificits and other health problems. Many farmers, authorities and private gardeners use it to kills weeds. Monsanto promotes their products with misleading commercials.
Monsanto bullies US farmers with threats of court cases to pay thousants of dollars of license fees for their crops, eventhough they did not use Monsanto's patented seeds.
In India Monsanto took over the cotton seed market, pushing up the seed prices, driving small farmers into dispair and even suicide.
Monsanto has a inbelievably strong influence on government policies all over the world, buying up politicians, putting their people in governments and other kinds of lobby work. In the US they have prevented labeling of GMOs on food products. In Europe there still a strong resistance against GMOs but also here Monsanto influences patent and seed laws to meet its profit driven needs.
Monsanto has joined ventures with other agrochemical & seed giants like Syngenta and Bayer, whose insecticides contribute to the dying of bees.
WUR does many classificed studies for these companies, testing their products, p.e. field trials with Monsanto's Roundup Ready maize, compromising its independence from agro industry. WUR is also an important adviser for Dutch government policies.
Albert Heijn, WWF and WUR contribute to the greenwashing of GMOs, promoting them as sustainable and therefore contribute to millions of tons of GMOs entering the market and ending up on your plate

What do we want?
We want to protect the future of our food. We want the people to have full control over the seeds, not farmers being dependent on a few big companies with a few GM crops. We need diversity of seeds to secure safe and healthy food now and in the future. Therefore we demand seed sovereignty. Join us in the March against Monsanto!

More info:
www.linkepost.nl - www.aseed.net - occupy-monsanto.com