Wednesday, July 24, 2013 by: Jonathan Benson,
The world's most evil corporation, Monsanto, has announced it will cease
trying to introduce any new genetically-modified (GM) crops into Europe
following years of widespread public opposition to the controversial
and untested technology. Instead, the multinational biotechnology
behemoth will re-focus its efforts on controlling the conventional seed
market in the European Union (EU), an outlandish move that proves the
seed giant is still determined, in one way or another, to dominate
global agriculture.
Monsanto's President and Managing Director for Europe, Jose Manuel Madero, recently told Reuters
in a phone interview that his company will be withdrawing all existing
approval requests for new GMOs in Europe within the next few months.
These include five pending approval requests for at least one new
variety of GM corn (maize), as well as GM soybeans and GM sugar beets.
As of this writing, there is only one GM crop, Monsanto's MON810 maize,
currently approved for cultivation anywhere in Europe.
No matter
how hard Monsanto and various others in the biotechnology industry have
tried in years past to force GMOs on Europe, the result has almost
always been the same: failure. The people of Europe have repeatedly
expressed loudly and clearly that they do not want to eat GMOs, and the
European Commission (EC) has tended to align its approval process for
GMOs with this public sentiment in mind. Thus, GMOs continue to remain
largely absent from the European market, with the exception of
widely-used animal feed.
"(The requests) have been going nowhere fast for several years," says Brandon Mitchener, a Monsanto spokesman, about the company's failed efforts to force GMOs on Europe. "There's no end in sight."
Monsanto: If we can't force Europeans to accept GMOs, we will instead take over their conventional crops
This is good news for Europeans, of course, who will finally have the opportunity to rest a little easier as far as the integrity of their food supply is concerned -- this is with the exception of GM animal feed, of course, which is currently imported into the country from places like the U.S. and South America at a rate of more than 30 million metric tons yearly, according to Reuters.But what Europeans will now have to worry about, sadly, is Monsanto's new pursuit of controlling their conventional crops. As we here at NaturalNews have been reporting on recently, Monsanto has been taking advantage of a little-known loophole in European patent law that allows the company to literally draw patents on natural crops like broccoli and green beans.
You can read more about this here:
http://www.naturalnews.com
"In the coming weeks, around a dozen new patents will be granted (to Monsanto), covering species such as broccoli, onions, melons, lettuce and cucumber," explains the food freedom watchdog coalition No Patents on Seeds! about Monsanto's new business approach. "Monsanto and Syngenta already own more than 50 percent of seed varieties of tomato, paprika and cauliflower registered in the EU."
In other words, since it could not have its way with GMOs in Europe, Monsanto simply turned to the earth's natural bounty and gradually claimed it as its own -- and the European Patent Office (EPO) continues to facilitate this takeover of the natural food supply in Europe, mostly because the European people remain in the dark about what is actually happening to their agricultural system.
You can help fight Monsanto's takeover of the European food supply by signing the No Patents on Seeds! online petition:
http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org
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