Frankenstein food
I've just stumbled my way onto two enraging articles; in the first of which i learned of a very mean spirited law passed by the occupying powers in Iraqinam.
More specifically, L. Paul Bremmer 'decreed' to outlaw any thing other than approved seeds fo crops.
Iraqi patent law : a Declaration of war against the farmers
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." This order amends Iraq's original patent law of 1970 and unless and until it is revised or repealed by a new Iraqi government, it now has the status and force of a binding law.
-snip-
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 is now history.
The CPA has made it illegal for Iraqi farmers to re-use seeds harvested from new varieties registered under the law. Iraqis may continue to use and save from their traditional seed stocks or what’s left of them after the years of war and drought, but that is the not the agenda for reconstruction embedded in the ruling.
The purpose of the law is to facilitate the establishment of a new seed market in Iraq, where transnational corporations can sell their seeds – genetically modified or not, which farmers would have to purchase afresh every single cropping season.
-big snip-
Food sovereignty is the right of people to define their own food and agriculture policies, to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade, to decide the way food should be produced, what should be grown locally and what should be imported.
The demand for food sovereignty and the opposition to the patenting of seeds has been central to the small farmers' struggle all over the world over the past decade. By fundamentally altering the IPR regime, the US has ensured that Iraq's agricultural system will remain under "occupation" in Iraq.
More at the link
It's true that i work in a World Corp style business, so i'm no dupe as to the mentality.
However i'm just so annoyed that people - in the newsrooms - are not paying any attention to the sleight of hand and backdoor ruses used by companies such as Monsato to force Frankenstein Food on an unsuspecting public.
Above all, using poorer countries as a testing ground ...
On second thoughts one can see why this shouldn't be in the news : it just might provoke a little bit of understandable animosity ... Trojan Sweet potatoes
More specifically, L. Paul Bremmer 'decreed' to outlaw any thing other than approved seeds fo crops.
Iraqi patent law : a Declaration of war against the farmers
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." This order amends Iraq's original patent law of 1970 and unless and until it is revised or repealed by a new Iraqi government, it now has the status and force of a binding law.
-snip-
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 is now history.
The CPA has made it illegal for Iraqi farmers to re-use seeds harvested from new varieties registered under the law. Iraqis may continue to use and save from their traditional seed stocks or what’s left of them after the years of war and drought, but that is the not the agenda for reconstruction embedded in the ruling.
The purpose of the law is to facilitate the establishment of a new seed market in Iraq, where transnational corporations can sell their seeds – genetically modified or not, which farmers would have to purchase afresh every single cropping season.
-big snip-
Food sovereignty is the right of people to define their own food and agriculture policies, to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade, to decide the way food should be produced, what should be grown locally and what should be imported.
The demand for food sovereignty and the opposition to the patenting of seeds has been central to the small farmers' struggle all over the world over the past decade. By fundamentally altering the IPR regime, the US has ensured that Iraq's agricultural system will remain under "occupation" in Iraq.
More at the link
It's true that i work in a World Corp style business, so i'm no dupe as to the mentality.
However i'm just so annoyed that people - in the newsrooms - are not paying any attention to the sleight of hand and backdoor ruses used by companies such as Monsato to force Frankenstein Food on an unsuspecting public.
Above all, using poorer countries as a testing ground ...
On second thoughts one can see why this shouldn't be in the news : it just might provoke a little bit of understandable animosity ... Trojan Sweet potatoes
posted by Damiel | 11:44 PM
2 Comments:
Thank you for great info. This is all so wrong.
I really don't know what to say ... It's just sooooo bad;
These people have already had their country utterly ruined and now, what little is left of it, is going to be sucked dry from the inside.
It's disgusting.
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