Hungary Destroys GM Fields, Distribution of GMO Seeds = Felony
Earlier in the week it was announced that every crop field in Hungary that was known to contain genetically-modified (GM) corn has been plowed under and destroyed. According to reports, GMO seeds are illegal in Hungary, and authorities have been working hard to ensure that no illegal plantings or sales of GMO seeds take place in the nation.
Hungary's deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar announced that, upon the recent discovery of roughly 1000 acres of illegal GM corn, all of these "frankencrops" were systematically destroyed. He also claimed that none of the pollen from the crops had spread, and that the government will continue to monitor seed distribution and crop plantings to ensure that no more GMOs are planted.
Earlier in the week it was announced that every crop field in Hungary that was known to contain genetically-modified (GM) corn has been plowed under and destroyed. According to reports, GMO seeds are illegal in Hungary, and authorities have been working hard to ensure that no illegal plantings or sales of GMO seeds take place in the nation.
Hungary's deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar announced that, upon the recent discovery of roughly 1000 acres of illegal GM corn, all of these "frankencrops" were systematically destroyed. He also claimed that none of the pollen from the crops had spread, and that the government will continue to monitor seed distribution and crop plantings to ensure that no more GMOs are planted.
Nothing seemed to happen with the India farmers' suicides versus Monsanto situation. I suspect that nothing will happen while the commercial agriculture or chemical companies have powerful lobbies or can pay off politicians (buy into their campaigns).
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if the crops were plowed under, wont that pollute the land??? I know that with gmo, they supposedly dont produce seeds so arent suppose to be able to repopulate, but I would have thought they would have burned the crops or something... Definitly going to share the story...thanks for posting it
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I dont think ploughing it under would hurt the land. It would just break down..
are you saying that the strange phytonutrients would harm the soil biology?
So what happened to those greenpeace people? Did they get arrested? I generally don't promote such acts but how else can "the people" deal with monsanto? Just like in the old days, if a King were unjust to the people the people would rise up and slay him and his court.
There is a case happening here in the states somewhere where local farmers have banned together to pre-emptively sue monsanto (and possibly the farmers choosing monsanto seed) for contamination of their non-GMO crops. I haven't heard how all that is going.
I dont understand GMOs all that well. Does not the plant make seed? I think it does because when GMO pollen fertilizes nonGMO crop seed monsanto sues the farmer of that crop for "stealing patented" seed. If a GMO crop didn't make seed where would they get all the millions of tons of GMO seed from?
if I am understanding it right, the gmo does not reproduce seeds...the farmer has to keep buying seeds from monsanto every year...the gmo crop pollen is fertilizing the nongmo crops, and the seeds from the non gmo crop is being ruined by the gmo..thats how monsanto is suing everybody...because the pollen is polluting the normal crops and the weeds along the fields.... Im not sure how it works, but it seems like a big money making scam to me...in order for these farmers to keep planting, they have to keep buying more and more seeds from monsanto
I thought that the GMO seed legally could not be collected by the farmer. It is a patented item so if a farmer collects it and uses it they come and take him a way.
Monsanto has been behind the elimination of professional crop seed collectors. There are only a few left, relatively. In some places they have made it illegal to collect seed as a business.
Here's the names of some other companies we should be aware of that do GMO products
One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.
if I am understanding it right, the gmo does not reproduce seeds...the farmer has to keep buying seeds from monsanto every year...the gmo crop pollen is fertilizing the nongmo crops, and the seeds from the non gmo crop is being ruined by the gmo..thats how monsanto is suing everybody...because the pollen is polluting the normal crops and the weeds along the fields.... Im not sure how it works, but it seems like a big money making scam to me...in order for these farmers to keep planting, they have to keep buying more and more seeds from monsanto
That is my understanding as well. Monsanto has made the pollen of these crops sterile, so that they do not have the capability to do anything to non-GMO crops. This makes the seeds sterile, I think. This is why the Indian farmers are committing suicide. The cannot save the seeds for next years crops and have to buy them each year from Monsanto. The farmers can't afford it. Then they can't afford to feed their families.
Hungary Destroys GM Fields, Distribution of GMO Seeds = Felony
but I agree w/you, Kind2C....I doubt the practice w/go too far.
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