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We’re Monsanto: Feeding the World, Lie After Lie is free October 8-12.

“Compelling! We’re Monsanto exposes Monsanto’s true colors. A must-read for anybody who thinks Monsanto is actually saving the world. Bravo!”
— Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Coauthor of Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases

We’re Monsanto tells the truth about 50 of Monsanto’s favorite lies.

Monsanto says:
* Biotechnology/GMOs are needed to feed a hungry world.
* Monsanto improves the environment.
* GMO cotton improves Indian farmers’ lives.
* Monsanto promotes honeybee health.
* The world has largely embraced GMOs.
* Agent Orange does not cause serious health effects.

Lies! Lies! Lies!

We’re Monsanto celebrates the first March Against Monsanto with march photos from around the world.

“Activists who are trying to expose Monsanto all know the corporation has done a lot of evil, wicked, despicable stuff. We all know Monsanto’s pattern of lies has repeated every time the harms of one of Monsanto’s products like DDT, PCB’s, Agent Orange, RoundUp, and GMO’s begin to be exposed. We’ve witnessed it again and again over the course of decades. Hundreds of sources have reported and controverted Monsanto’s lies. This book documents it all in a concise, referenced format that activists can readily access in their efforts to educate community groups and the general public about the evil that is Monsanto. I consider this book the March Against Monsanto Bible. Anyone who is interested in talking with family members, co-workers, neighbors or fellow students about the deathly harm of Monsanto products to people, pets, and the environment will find this book very useful. It will be invaluable for me and the hundreds of thousands of other activists who want to stop Monsanto before Monsanto stops Mankind. Thank you for this essential reference. I have ordered the paperback version to carry with me at marches and add to my community outreach tables at Monsanto sponsored community events where they seek to whitewash the crimes they are committing against humanity.”
— Catherine Myers, Activist, USA

Whether you “buy” We’re Monsanto for yourself or you “buy” it for a loved one, download it now! It’s free!

Why am I giving it away free? I want every person on the planet to know the truth about Monsanto. I want everyone to wake up to Monsanto’s lies. I want everyone to March Against Monsanto on Saturday, October 12, 2013.

Monsanto’s worst enemy is an informed public. Get informed!

Download We’re Monsanto now! Read it, enjoy it, review it, and loan it to your friends and family!

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P.P.S. You can also buy the paperback version at http://www.amazon.com/dp/1492312916/.

What comes after P.P.S.? If you would like your March Against Monsanto photos included in Book 2, join the Facebook group March Against Monsanto Photos.

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Several people in distant locations stated they were unable to download We’re Monsanto from Amazon. For a limited time only, I will email the PDF version of We’re Monsanto to people who are unable to download it provided they commit to write a review on Amazon.

If you are unable to download the book and promise to review it within one week, then request a copy in the comment section below and I will email it to you.

My teen-aged son, David, and I will run across the USA in 2014 promoting sustainable agriculture, GMO food labeling, and seed freedom. If you request a PDF copy of We’re Monsanto, I will add your email address to our Running The Country blog to keep you updated on our transcontinental run. And even if you don’t request a PDF copy, subscribe to our blog! You’ll enjoy the updates and we will appreciate your support.

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Dr. Vandana Shiva, Navdanya

Who Feeds The World? Celebrate the Small Farmer.
Oct 6, 2013
(Video & Full Transcript)

There is such an intense debate about who feeds the world. There is one myth that without the Green Revolution India wouldn’t have been fed. But the Green Revolution was only rice and wheat, and it transformed bio-diverse systems with very high productivity into monocultures of rice, monocultures of wheat, pumped with high doses of chemicals, ten times more water. Today, our water has disappeared, our soils are polluted, a cancer train leaves Punjab because the toxics and pesticides have created a cancer epidemic.

The reality of who feeds the world is the biodiversity that we are growing here at Navdanya. These amazing millets, the forgotten foods that have disappeared from our fields and from our tables. The diversity of crops grown in cooperation. The amazing intensification of biodiversity where the beans grow with the cereals, where millets that produce forty times more nutrition and use next to no water give us food security in the worst of times. But because we’ve had an arrogance and a racism, assuming that only globally traded commodities are food and a racism that treats everything dark as inferior, we’ve driven out healthy food, we’ve driven out biodiversity, and we’ve replaced it with monocultures and industrial foods, and industrial agriculture.

Industrial agriculture accounts for only 28% of the world’s food production. It is using up 75% of the world’s resources. This is a highly inefficient system. If they were to reach 100% of the resources and destroy our soil, destroy our water, destroy the biodiversity and mess up the climate they could at best get to about 40% food supply, but with the collapse of the entire ecological base that gets food to us.

We are made repeatedly to believe that replacing monocultures of rice and wheat with monocultures of corn and soya that are genetically modified is feeding the world. Only 10% of corn and soya that is grown worldwide is going to people’s table. The rest is biofuel and animal feed. Why are we accepting a 10% myth as the basis of food security? When we have eaten 8,500 species of plants, when small farmers are still 72% of the food base. The 72% must become 100%. And we can make it 100% by defending our small farms, promoting diverse agriculture, promoting ecological intensification of the kind we see in these fields with beans and millets co-existing, with an amazing cooperation of the stalks of the cereals giving the support to the bean and the bean gives the free nitrogen to the soil and free protein to human beings.

These cooperative, intensive, biodiverse ecological systems are the source of food security. Small farms are also the source of food security. Gardens growing intensively like this are the source of food security. Making peace with the earth is the source of food security.

Industrial agriculture—whether it’s the Green Revolution or as GMOs—is a war against the planet. And it’s an inefficient system. It’s going to leave us with neither bread nor freedom, whereas cooperative arrangements between plants and humans and within the plant system, this beautiful pearl millet giving the support to a beautiful pearl bean, this is where the food of the world comes from, and the future food must all be like this, a garden of abundance, rather than a green desert full of poisons.

On World Food Day celebrate small farms, small farmers & local produce. Celebrate the real food heroes.

More information at Navdanya.

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Dr. Vandana Shiva: Who Feeds The World? Celebrate the Small Farmer