But as public pressure and the weight of scientific evidence curtailed the use of DDT and many other chlorinated pesticides in the 1970s, executives and corporate scientists saw the potential for limitless advances -- and ever-expanding marketing potential -- in the incorporation of technological advances into the genetics of seeds. During the 1990s, Monsanto alone spent nearly $8 billion acquiring leading commercial seed suppliers in the United States and internationally; DuPont and others quickly followed suit, leading to today's widespread proliferation of genetically engineered food crops." Click here.
Today, in Illinois, our federal agents and police, working on behalf of Monsanto, are terrorizing ... whom? Drug dealers? Financiers who have stolen this country blind? The people who took us to war based on lies and have profited while thousands of American and 100s of thousands of Iraqi have died? No. Our tax dollars are being used to turn our marshals and police into Monsanto agents to terrorize our disappearing farmers.
Terror is palpable in rural America. It defines American farming communities now.
Monsanto, with its history of warfare and creating chemicals to "cleanse" both enemies and agricultural pests of any area desired, appears to bring this power and method of thinking to all it touches.
"Rural cleansing" is its stated goal, and our farmers the pests to be eliminated.
Where is the Illinois ACLU? Where is Amnesty?
Mid-West Office
53 West Jackson, Suite #731
Chicago, IL 60604
phone: (312) 427-2060
fax: (312) 427-2589
1-866-A-REGION
aiusamw@aiusa.org
ACLU of Illinois
180 N. Michigan, Ste 2300
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312- 201-9740
Fax: 312-201-9760
Email: acluofillinois@aclu-il.org
Vilsack's nomination nears, a Monsanto appointment
Organic Consumers Association
6771 South Silver Hill Drive
Finland MN 55603
Contact: www.organicconsumers.org/aboutus.cfm#contact
Activist or Media Inquiries: 218-226-4164
Fax: 218-353-7652
Where are all of us?
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