36 DIFFERENT PESTICIDES FOUND IN HAWAIIAN CHILD’S HAIR SAMPLE

Her family lives near GMO crop testing site.

Christina Sarich | Infowars.com - APRIL 1, 2016

Kauaʻi mother Malia Chun is no stranger to fighting against biotech corporations that spray chemicals in her neighborhood. She flew all the way to Switzerland to attend Syngenta’s board meeting to draw attention to the fact that corporations like theirs are poisoning her children. Recent tests revealed that one of her daughters was riddled with 36 different pesticides – the shocking discovery was found from taking a simple hair sample to a lab.

It would seem unfathomable that Hawaii, where the weather is picture perfect, would have to import over 90 percent of its food supply. But with companies like Dow, DuPont/Pioneer, Syngenta, BASF, and Monsanto testing their GMO products on over 1,000 plots of large acreage, it’s the sad truth. This is why Hawaii is often called GMO Ground Zero.

The test plots are sometimes sprayed with carcinogenic and health-harming chemicals up to 16 times a day for most of the year. These test sites are located near neighborhoods, schools, and even hospitals. More than 24 schools are within a mere mile of a major GM test site, and some of the pesticides found in children are supposed to be banned or severely restricted in use.

Chun recently voiced her concern at a press conference to urge Governor David Ige to enforce more stringent pesticide-use regulations. So far, the work of activists like Chun and others has gone largely unheeded. This is why she has reached out to a more global community – including Native American Indians, the indigenous peoples of Australia and Maori, and tribes in Africa that have faced similar battles.

Chun lives on the island of Kauai, but the copious spraying is also done on Oʻahu, Maui and Molokaʻi – in fact, all the islands of Hawaii are affected.

A mere 3,000 signatures have been collected to help stop the spraying of so many chemical pesticides in Hawaii. The islands need our help to make it VERY CLEAR to Hawaii’s government leaders that this will be tolerated no longer. Please sign the petition, and help Chun and other families defend themselves against biotech’s careless spraying.

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India's farmers are forced into poverty by Monsanto.

Monsanto, the world's most hated corporation, will stop at nothing to increase its profits, even if it means swindling struggling Indian farmers.
For generations, farmers have saved seeds from year to year -- but the company has now made that illegal.

Monsanto is sowing the seeds of debt bondage by charging outrageous annual royalties to keep using their seeds. Farmers are hopelessly saddled with crippling debt. Since Monsanto's crops were introduced, over 200,000 farmers in India have committed suicide.


Stand with India's farmers & tell Monsanto to stop charging crippling royalties on its seeds.http://action.sumofus.org/a/monsanto-royalties/?akid=12130.7187485.FoKglj&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1

New numbers show farmer suicide rates have reached record highs in rural states as Monsanto's infamous seeds have propagated throughout the country, and it's about to get worse. Now, the new Indian government has opened GMO testing on eggplant, corn, rice and chickpeas, which could mean even more royalties across the agricultural industry.

For centuries, farmers made a living by saving seeds from one year's crop to the next. But today, Monsanto has put an end to that by claiming patent rights over seeds -- the fundamental source of all plant life -- and forcing farmers to pay for new seeds year after year after year.
The result is a crippling cycle of poverty, from which farmers see no way out.

Stand with India's farmers & tell Monsanto to stop charging crippling royalties on its seeds.

Bt cotton is currently India's only GMO crop, but it makes up 95 percent of all cotton farming in the country, giving Monsanto a massive monopoly on the market. These seeds cost about three to eight times the cost of conventional seeds.

As Vandana Shiva has said, when corporations control seeds, they control life. Monsanto is taking a renewable common resource and turning it into a nonrenewable,  commodity.

The battle between Indian farmers and Monsanto is heating up. Now more than ever, we need to raise our voices to show Monsanto the whole world is watching -- and we won't stand by while it makes billions in profits at the expense of the world's poor farmers.

Stand with India's farmers & tell Monsanto to stop charging crippling royalties on its seeds.

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For more information:
Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide, Common Dreams, March 27, 2013
Monsanto's Shares Surge as its Drive to Force GM Crops into India Gathers Pace, RINF, February 4, 2015
Farmer suicides went up to 12,360 in 2014: Report, Business Standard, July 18th 2015