[lbo-talk] Terminator genes...

[Mike Ballard]

ACTION ALERT--TERMINATE THE TERMINATOR
Consumer, farmer, and environmental organizations
across the globe are mobilizing to stop the
legalization and commercialization of the
controversial Terminator Gene Technology, whereby
seeds are genetically engineered to become sterile or
commit suicide after one growing season. The Monsanto
corporation and the biotech industry support the
Terminator Technology, because it will force many of
the 1.4 billion farmers around the world to stop
saving their seeds and instead to purchase patented
seed varieties from the Gene Giants. In addition,
scientists are concerned that genetic pollution from
Terminator crops will lead to killing off a wide range
of crops and plants, as Terminator pollen and seeds
are spread by the wind, insect pollinators, and
commercial seed co-mingling and transportation. After
a massive international campaign in 1998, Monsanto
Corporation announced they were shelving plans to
commercialize the Terminator, while the United Nations
(UN) called for a global ban. But today (2/11/2005),
renewed efforts to overturn the worldwide ban were
launched at a UN conference in Bangkok.

Learn more and sign OCA's petition to the UN to
terminate the Terminator Gene:
http://organicconsumers.org/un.htm

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Instead of the conservative motto, 
"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!" 
they ought to inscribe on their banner 
the revolutionary watchword, 
"Abolition of the wages system!"
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/ch03.htm#c14
Karl Marx 
http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal

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