279. Rise Up Against…Chilian Law to Allow Monsanto to Colonize People’s Seeds
'Monsanto Law' Brings Uproar to
Chile
What the law "does is put food
sovereignty at risk by making it dependent on big corporations"
- Andrea Germanos, staff writer
‘กฎหมายมอนซานโต’ เรียกเสียงโห่ในชิลี
สิ่งที่กฎหมาย
“ทำ คือ ทำให้อธิปไตยทางอาหารเสี่ยงโดยทำให้มันต้องขึ้นกับบรรษัทยักษ์”
-แอนเดรีย
เยอร์มาโนส
ดรุณี
ตันติวิรมานนท์ แปล
An
anti-Monsanto march from May 2013 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo: Tamara Kramarenco
Müller./cc/flickr)
Protesters filled the streets of
over 10 cities in Chile on Saturday to march against what has been dubbed 'Monsanto Law,' a measure
critics say risks the country's food sovereignty while putting seeds in the
hands of a few multi-national corporations.
ผู้ประท้วงออกมาเต็มถนนในกว่า ๑๐ เมืองในชิลี เมื่อวันเสาร์
เพื่อเดินประท้วงคัดค้าน สิ่งที่ถูกเรียกว่า “กฎหมายมอนซานโต”,
อันเป็นมาตรการที่นักวิพากษ์กล่าวว่า ทำให้อธิปไตยทางอาหารของประเทศมีความเสี่ยง
ในขณะที่วางเมล็ดใส่มือของเพียงไม่กี่บรรษัทข้ามชาติ.
The law, set into motion by former
President Michelle Bachelet, is currently making its way through the
parliament, and would give seed patenting rights to corporations such as
Monsanto, the I Don't Want GMOs in Chile campaign (Yo No Quiero Transgénicos
en Chile) explained.
กฎหมายฉบับนี้, ริเริ่มโดยอดีตประธานาธิบดี มิเชล บาเชเรต,
ตอนนี้กำลังเคลื่อนผ่านครรลองสภา, และจะมอบสิทธิในการจดทะเบียนเมล็ดแก่บรรษัท เช่น
มอนซานโต, กลุ่มรณรงค์ “ฉันไม่ต้องการ จีเอ็มโอ ในชิลี” อธิบาย.
Joel González, a representative from
the campaign, said that
the measure was an attack "against agricultural practices of peasant
communities" who weren't even consulted about the proposed law but could
be slapped with fines from the corporations for violating the seed patents.
โจเอล กองซาเลส, ผู้แทนจากกลุ่มรณรงค์, กล่าวว่า มาตรการนี้
เป็นการโจมตี “วิธีปฏิบัติทางเกษตรของชุมชนชาวไร่ชาวนา” ผู้ไม่ได้แม้กระทั่งปรึกษาหารือด้วยเกี่ยวกับกฎหมายที่นำเสนอนี้
แต่อาจถูกบรรษัทตบด้วยค่าปรับฐานละเมิดสิทธิบัตรเมล็ด.
“This law puts seeds into the hands
of a few transnational companies,” added Ivan
Santandreu, a member of Chile without GMOs (Chile Sin Transgénicos).
“This measure does not contribute to the innovation and wellbeing of
independent farmers at all. What it does is put food sovereignty at risk by
making it dependent on big corporations,” he told Radio Universidad de Chile.
“กฎหมายนี้ วางเมล็ดใส่มือของสองสามบริษัทข้ามชาติ”, อิวาน
ซานตานดรู เสริม, เขาเป็นสมาชิกของ “ชิลีปราศจาก จีเอ็มโอ”. “มาตรการนี้
ไม่ได้ช่วยให้เกิดนวัตกรรมและความอยู่ดีมีสุขของชาวนาอิสระเลย. สิ่งที่มันทำ ก็คือ เติมความเสี่ยงให้อธิปไตยทางอาหาร
โดยทำให้มันต้องขึ้นกับบรรษัทยักษ์”, เขากล่าวต่อ วิทยุชิลี.
TeleSur adds that
critics say the law would prevent the saving of seeds and would increase the
amount of time corporations have over the rights of hybrid and GMO seeds in the
country.
TeleSur เสริมว่า นักวิพากษ์บอกว่า กฎหมายจะขัดขวางการเก็บรักษาเมล็ด
และ จะขยายระยะเวลาของถือครองสิทธิ์เหนือเมล็ดพันทาง และ จีเอ็มโอ ในประเทศนี้.
Flickr user Deoxyt2 has photos from
Saturday's march: / ดูภาพการเดินประท้วงเมื่อวันเสาร์ได้ จาก Flickr
user Deoxyt2
“Protesta. No
a la Ley Monsanto” from deoxyt2.-lacamaradegas.cl on Flickr
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Hermanos y hermanas in Chile, Save
Seed. Seed bank every seed you can. Secretly if you have to, defiantly if you
want to, but save them. Monsanto cannot patent Life!
When there overrated crops fail, you will have seed and food.
When there overrated crops fail, you will have seed and food.
Monsanto products, always presented
to everyone as being so harmless and beneficial to mankind and nature itself,
yet they need draconian laws worldwide to enable their goods to be forced onto
people by both covert, overt and immoral means, whilst also prosecuting any
transgressors (in their eyes) to their complete satisfaction be it unto
financial ruin or death itself.
When a person or company pollutes
any area, either willingly or by abject foreknown knowledge, they are held
responsible. - Monsanto's GMO and seed distribution by purely natural means
from any given crop of GMO products onto neighboring areas is pollution. - Yet
with Monsanto's self-serving laws, it is not the perpetrator of the pollution
that is to blame, it is always the victim. Indeed that victim is also accused
of the 'theft' of the pollution and is heavily pursued and prosecuted for their
'crime'.
Monsanto, the same company that made
sure that no food-labeling laws would clearly state that a product contains GMO
material, simply because they cried and quite bizarrely stated, it's not a
level playing field, people wouldn't buy any of the products if they knew it
had any GMO material in it. Therefore, anything that has our GMO products in it
should have no labeling on it to show that it has.
Monsanto, making widgets that they
insist are so good for you that they need to be NAZI's about it all to force it
to be used.
Pretty soon we'll be fined if we don't pay a licensing fee
for the air we breathe, the water we drink, the thoughts we think...
The centralized corporate madness just proliferates, until
enough of us become so disgusted and desperate that we simply refuse and
resist.
We laughed a lot at this in the 60s. Now not so funny.
"i'm the tax man ...
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet."
The Beatles
That was one of George Harrison's early contributions. Early
on, he seemed a lot more direct about making political statements than John or
Paul.
I never really found those lyrics amusing myself, because
they were so true.
Please check out the TPP and TTIP/TAFTA free trade
agreements. If they make it into law we will have nothing left to protect us.It
is the biggest corporate take over yet. Help spread the word about the dangers
of the agreements. Tell your neighbors, your coworkers, and march in the streets.
You can get more info at Public Citizen or google TAFTA webcast.
You can get more info at Public Citizen or google TAFTA webcast.
Spot on, very familiar with TPP and TAFTA, which will give
corporations and "investors" standing to sue governments for
"lost profits" from any law or regulation.
Both agreements being negotiated by "trade
representatives" and corporations, with no access by elected legislators
to the drafts as they are developed.
Public Citizen is the go-to source for info on these and all
other corporatist transnational "trade" deals. In my neck of the
woods Washington Fair Trade Coalition is the on-the-ground organizer.
Monsanto and their ilk are to
agriculture what the oil, coal, gas and nuclear giants are to energy.
It seems quite clear their goal is
to destroy as much of the biosphere and end as much Life as they possibly can
whilst making a huge "profit" in the process.
How they expect their
"wealth" to keep them alive when Earth is no longer capable of
supporting complex Life is anyone's guess.
My dear fellow, you just don't understand. We 1%ers are
speeding up the End of the World because it means God will come and take us to
heaven, leaving you 99%ers to rot in hell. We know that this is true because
the Bible tells us so.
Thank you so much Tom! What a fool I've been! How could I
have forgotten about the rapture?
Do you know if there are any tickets left? I might be able
to sell my grandchildren to come up with the money.
Dear Mr. WrenchMonkey,
well, you cd sell a couple to me. i need a few more drudges
to clean the toilets etc. makes waiting for the Lord a bit more pleasant.
btw, who is this guy Ghandi i hear about now and then? some
kind of riffraff from pictures i've seen of him. one of you unwashed 99%ers,
i'm sure.
yours in the Lord,
John Onepercent
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"A lively cash flow is a sign of predeliction." Jim and Tammy
"A lively cash flow is a sign of predeliction." Jim and Tammy
as a former dirt farmer in southern
Chile, I cannot emphasize strongly enough the importance of stopping
transgenics, and doing everything possible to protect the seed varieties still
existent in the small farms and gardens of this land of plenty...when the
spanish invaded, the biodiversity of farm crops was enormous, but 4 centuries
have seen the erosion of this wealth because science and politics rarely
support sane agricultural policy. Chile is one of the last temperate zones
still holding on to ancient seed stocks of many food genera, and in a class by
itself. So troubling to think that "socialist" Bachelet supports the
ill-begotten plan to allow the industrializaion of ALL seed production, an
obvious result of Monsanto's policies.
Chilians, do not let those evil
corporations in your country. They will lie, cheat, and steal until you have
nothing left. Do not be as stupid as we Americans are.
All in preparation the new global
"trade" pacts:
OBAMA'S NEW SECRETIVE GLOBAL TRADE PACTS WILL IMPACT US ALL. THREATENS SOVEREIGNTY AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP http://sco.lt/74uPth
OBAMA'S NEW SECRETIVE GLOBAL TRADE PACTS WILL IMPACT US ALL. THREATENS SOVEREIGNTY AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP http://sco.lt/74uPth
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