Global Food, Farming and Environmental Justice Groups to Put Monsanto on Trial for Crimes...........

[RodISHI]

Released today... December 3, 2015

Global Food, Farming and Environmental Justice Groups to Put Monsanto on Trial for Crimes Against Human Health and the Environment in the International People’s Court in The Hague


Global Food, Farming and Environmental Justice Groups to Put Monsanto on Trial for Crimes Against Human Health and the Environment in the International People’s Court in The Hague

Organic Consumers Association, IFOAM, Navdanya, Regeneration International and others form Monsanto Tribunal Foundation in advance of World Food Day 2016

PARIS, Dec. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today that they will send Monsanto MON (NYSE), a US-based transnational corporation, to a tribunal for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.

The announcement was made at a press conference at the COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris.

Speaking at the press conference, Ronnie Cummins, international director of the OCA (US) said: "The time is long overdue for a global citizens' tribunal to put Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity and the environment. Corporate agribusiness, industrial forestry, the garbage and sewage industry and agricultural biotechnology have literally killed the climate-stabilizing, carbon-sink capacity of the Earth's living soil."

Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya (India) said: "Monsanto has pushed GMOs in order to collect royalties from poor farmers, trapping them in unpayable debt. Monsanto promotes an agro-industrial model that contributes at least 50 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Monsanto is also largely responsible for the depletion of soil and water resources, species extinction and declining biodiversity, and the displacement of millions of small farmers worldwide."

Andre Leu, president of IFOAM said: "Monsanto is able to ignore the human and environmental damage caused by its products, and maintain its devastating activities through a strategy of systemic concealment: by lobbying regulatory agencies and governments, by resorting to lying and corruption, by financing fraudulent scientific studies, by pressuring independent scientists, and by manipulating the media. Monsanto's history reads like a text-book case of impunity, benefiting transnational corporations and their executives, whose activities contribute to climate and biosphere crises and threaten the safety of the planet."

Marie-Monique Robin, author of the best-selling documentary "The World According Monsanto" said: "This International Citizens' Tribunal is necessary because the defense of the safety of the planet and the conditions of life on Earth is everyone's concern. Only through a collective resurgence of all living forces will we stop the engine of destruction."

Monsanto's Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world, was designated a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization in March.

Relying on the "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights" adopted by the UN in 2011, an international court of lawyers and judges will assess the potential criminal liability of Monsanto for damages inflicted on human health and the environment.

Full list of founding organizations here. Regeneration International » Monsanto Tribunal Supporting Organizations

Full list of Monsanto Tribunal Foundation organizing members here. Regeneration International » Members of the Organizing Committee

More information available at Monsanto-Tribunal - monsanto-tribunal, after 2:30 p.m. EU time on December 3, 2015.

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) https://www.organicconsumers.org/ is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The Organic Consumers Fund is a 501(c)4 allied organization of the Organic Consumers Association, focused on grassroots lobbying and legislative action.

Regeneration International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to building a global network of farmers, scientists, businesses, activists, educators, journalists, governments and consumers who will promote and put into practice regenerative agriculture and land-use practices that: provide abundant, nutritious food; revive local economies; rebuild soil fertility and biodiversity; and restore climate stability by returning carbon to the soil, through the natural process of photosynthesis.

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SOURCE Organic Consumers Association

 

[Two Thumbs]

well, good luck with enforement


remember when Bush got convicted for war crimes?

wonder when they are going to take him off to jail?

 

[Katzndogz]

This means nothing.

 

[RodISHI]

This means nothing.

I suppose one may think that but truth is people are learning rapidly the damage to their health the GM foods and associated chemicals have been doing to them and their families.

 

[Stephanie]

People need to wake up to these radical environmentalist. they are sounding more like Hitler everyday. If you don't bow to their cult to the environment. .Well you see where they are headed. wake up for gawds sake

 

[RodISHI]

I'm am all for ecologist that protect the integrity of the environmental issues that effect the health and well being of the people; and against anyone that purposely sells or puts anything into the enviroment that harms the health and well being of the people. I guess I am a radical in that respect. If people would have taken a firmer stand back in the 1970's & 1980's these environment and people destroyers would not be so large and such a problem to deal with now.

Gene expression analysis confirms Roundup causes liver and kidney damage at very low doses

It is not okay with this environmentalist when some rich people get together to save the world by destroying children;
Rothschild Czar Bill Gates To Face Trial In India: Millions Of Children Poisoned By Vaccine! | The Liberty Beacon

I have a problem with large corporations who are willing to kill if they do not get their own way;
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Rigoberto Lima Choc - Guatemala

On 18th September 2015, Rigoberto Lima Choc was shot dead in broad daylight opposite the courthouse in Sayaxché, Guatemala. On the same day, three other activists - Hermelindo Asij, Lorenzo Pérez and Manuel Mendoza - were kidnapped after allegedly receiving threats that they would be burned alive...... Countdown to the Climate Summit | Global Witness
People coming up from South America are being driven out of their homes and off of their land as large international companies take over even more of the world's best crop lands in order to sustain control over everyone.

And I hate liars who try to discredit people when those people tell the truth about what they are doing to other people with their products;

GMO Seralini – Seralini’s team wins defamation and forgery court cases on GMO and pesticide research

And the next thing you know the establishment will what everyone to eat their lab raised meat.
Coming soon: chicken meat without slaughter

 

[RodISHI]

Looks like the WTO is saying we Americans have no right to know for sure where our food comes from or what our food is. Americans were screwed when the Trade Agreements were made before as it allowed giants to take jobs out of America and put in facilities in Mexico and South America which took away more American jobs and in turn stuck it to all the small family owned farmers and still are. The large companies went into South America; destruction was in their path and many of those people were made to flee. Many of those displaced throughout South America were brought to North America on the train called the Beast. The New World Order is not for the people. It is for the benefit of a few.

If the GOP continues on this route of destruction of the natural it will only take this country farther down that path of destruction. It is time to stop this madness of greed that has infected the country since leadership decided they would control the FOOD to control the people. Trillions of dollars has been spent to try to keep up with new technology of altering and splicing genes of varying species of plants so they could have control. That beast won't cut it. It has put every man woman and child in this country in the high health risk category. Just forcing everyone to have health care does not cover it when they are still being poisoned.

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December 07, 2015

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December 7, 2015
Global WTO Tribunal Overrules Congress on Food Labeling, $1 Billion Sanctions

Washington, D.C.- Today, a World Trade Organization (WTO) tribunal authorized over $1 billion in sanctions against the U.S., in retaliation for the congressionally passed Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law being “incompliant with WTO standards.”

COOL law requires detailed labeling where the livestock was born, raised and slaughtered. This announcement is the final step in a WTO dispute brought by Mexico and Canada that has been ongoing for over seven years. The WTO has repeatedly - but wrongly - ruled that America’s COOL law discriminates against imported livestock in violation of our trade agreements with Canada and Mexico.

“COOL was passed by Congress in 2002 and is supported by nine out of ten Americans,” said Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. “Our founding fathers gave the authority to pass laws such as COOL to the US Congress, not world government courts. Congress should focus upon taking back its power rather than acceding to transferring that power to global courts.”

Consumers across the U.S. rely on these labels to inform them of their food and allow them to make informed decisions regarding their meat. Congress is now likely to take that information away from them.

CPA affiliate R-CALF USA (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund) also criticized the amount of the sanctions, saying: The WTO decision is utterly absurd. The entire value of Canada's live cattle imports in 2014 was $1.753 billion and this represented an historical high. It is absolutely impossible that Canada could be suffering an annual loss representing 45 percent of Canada's record high imports.

The COOL sanctions decision underlines the importance of stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership which will subject US and state laws to more global tribunal oversight.

The Coalition for a Prosperous America is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing the interests of over three million households through our agricultural, manufacturing and labor organization members.