This is TOO Much

Reward the people selling pesticides which kill the bees who polinate my heirloom seed garden?  Reward the companies engineering plants which can kill bees Before they are ever Bought for a garden?  Reward the people killing insects birds eat?  Reward the people impoverishing small farmers, driving them out of business and into cities where they and their children go Hungry?  Reward the companies suing the European Union, against All Democratic principles to Force them to allow genetically modified foods Into their markets?  Too bad Blogger wouldn't let Me put the word Obscene into the title, but there it is.

Monsanto & Syngenta executives will soon be rewarded with

The World Food Prize,

 a prestigious award known as "the Nobel Prize of agriculture."

Tell The World Food Prize Foundation not to reward these awful companies.

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In an obscene development,

a Monsanto executive is winning this year’s “Nobel Prize of agriculture” -- the prestigious

World Food Prize -- for creating GMOs.

 Receiving it legitimizes the sort of rampant genetic modification Monsanto pioneered,

and helps validate a ruthless business model that impoverishes farmers and monopolizes

our food.

If that wasn't baffling enough,

the founder of Syngenta, the same biotech giant joining Bayer in suing Europe to

keep selling bee-killing pesticides, will also win the prize

 -- and with it, a share of the $250,000 prize money. We cannot allow this prize

to legitimize frankenfoods and bee killers.

The ceremony is in just over a week, so we need to act now.

Tell the World Food Prize Foundation not to reward Monsanto and bee-killer Syngenta’s outrageous practices.

Winning this prize will encourage the wider use of genetically engineered crops

 and be a huge obstacle to those fighting to investigate the long-term effects of

its frankenseeds --

which is exactly what Monsanto wants

. In 2008, Monsanto made a $5 million pledge to the World Food Prize Foundation,

part of its plan to buy the credibility it can’t legitimately earn. By handing its

benefactor this award,

the Foundation risks undermining the credibility of the most respected prize in agriculture.

In protest,

81 Councilors of the World Future Council have penned a statement blasting the World

Food Prize Foundation for betraying its purpose

. In the words of the esteemed authors: “GMO seeds reinforce a model of farming that

undermines sustainability of cash-poor farmers, who make up most of the world's hungry…

The most dramatic impact of such dependency is in India, where 270,000 farmers, many

trapped in debt for buying seeds and chemicals, committed suicide between 1995 and

2012.”

Despite the criticism, Monsanto and Syngenta executives are set to receive their

prize on World Food Day, October 16 -- a slap in the face to everyone harmed by their

products.

 We don’t have much time, so we need to publicize this obscene decision -- if enough

of us get word of this out, and let people know the World Food Prize is threatening

its reputation, we can shame it into choosing a more suitable candidate.

Genetically-modified crops do not deserve the highest praise. Don’t reward Monsanto and Syngenta.

Thanks for all that you do,

Claiborne and the rest of us.

P.S.

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More Information:

And The Winner Of The World Food Prize Is ... The Man From Monsanto

, NPR, 19 June 2013

Choice of Monsanto Betrays World Food Prize Purpose, Say Global Leaders

, NPR, 26 June 2013

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