Iraqi Farmers Aren't Celebrating World Food Day

I find this a crime. However considering how much depleted uranium is in their land and is still being planted there, Monsanto poison-ready seeds are likely the only thing that'll grow under such conditions.

What the US has done to this pitiful country is so obscene, it defies the words to properly express the total contempt I have for Bush and all his cheerleaders.

Yes you're right about the DU but remember, it's only one country of the world that happens to be in the news right now. It wasn't that long ago that Monsanto sued a Canadian farmer for "using" their patented seeds when it was a case of pollen drift. The US has clearly undertaken a multi-faceted approach to world domination.

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I can't understand why seeds should be pantented in the first place. I mean, I do understand, [America has always used food as a weapon], but why does the rest of the world go along with it?

Hi Janis, Seeds aren't the only thing that corporations will soon own. Every resource and public space will one day be owned by stock holders. Iraq is the first, er maybe second American capitalistic pol.econ experiment. Naomi Klein's Dalton Camp lecture (you can go to cbc/radio.ca to hear the lecture) is absolutely startling, and she reveals just how the Iraq people feel about their multinational takeover of their sovereignty. I recommend it to everyone.
Why the American's voted Bush in for a second term is incomprehensible, don't any of them read books like Bush Wacked?
The last thing I want is for Canada to become another American state, but I fear the worse. One day we will be paying a few American dollars for that stroll along the waterfront because all public parks and spaces will be owned by someone, some company, come where and we the people are merely consumer citizens with no rights. Now, in the U.S. Bush has passed legislation that prohibits individuals from suing corporations for damages if their products cause harm and prohibits employees from suing if they are injured in the corporate work place.
The mighty corporation has become unaccountable and invincible.
It's U.S.A. Inc. Vote Left Now and give them all a tough fight over the takeover. Help prevent the destruction of another country. Does anyone really think the U.S. will be satisfied with destroying just one country like Iraq, No way. Who else is on the list?

I wish you could put a name on your posts, even a ficitious one. It is better to be personal than anonymous. Anon is the corporation.

But what I really wanted to say is, a very thought provocing post. Of course, it makes sense. Every move you make, every breath you take, it will cost you something.

How to prepare for the onslaught? Try to become self'sufficient. And speak out for the weak, the small, the helpless who are under the heel of this bully. Because, like you say, we're next.

a NON

Seeds *should not* be patented. But why does the rest of the world go along with it is a very good question. I have no idea where the altruistic farmer has disappeared to. I do think they are partly responsible for what has happened to seed production. They're still purchasing Monsanto seeds right now and planting them knowing what we now know about the spread of, essentially weed crops and slave farmering for genetic-manipulating corporations. To stop this we *must* stop massive food farming. Diversity must be protected. Smaller, possibly co-op farms are really the only way to protect that in my mind.