Former Hillary classmate now not voting for her. RE: Monsanto/Bill connection

[jeffrey_X]

Interesting.

http://henwhisperer.blogspot.com/2008/02/before-you-vote-for-hillary-clinton.html

An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from Another Wellesley College Alumna

Dear Hillary,

By polling logic, I should be your supporter - Democrat, older woman, white, liberal. I was even in a dorm with you in college. I have pulled for you for years. But something this past summer fundamentally changed my responsibility to my children and grandchildren. In the time I have left in my life to protect them and others, I need to speak out.

I saw a News Hour piece on Maharastra, India, about farmers committing suicide. Monsanto, a US agricultural giant, hired Bollywood actors for ads telling illiterate farmers they could get rich (by their standards) from big yields with Monsanto's Bt (genetically engineered) cotton seeds. The expensive seeds needed expensive fertilizer and pesticides (Monsanto, again) and irrigation. There is no irrigation there. Crops failed. Farmers had larger debt than they'd ever experienced

And farmers couldn't collect seeds from their own fields to try again (true since time immemorial). Monsanto "patents" their DNA-altered seeds as "intellectual property." They have a $10 million budget and a staff of 75 devoted solely to prosecuting farmers. http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2008/01/17./). Since the late 1990s (about when industrial agriculture took hold in India),166,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide and 8 million have left the land.

Farmers in Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia,South America, Central America and here, have protested Monsanto and genetic engineering for years.

What does this have to do with you?

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[Quakerfriend]

1. Thx for posting this! As one who did biochem/nutrition research

for years, I too, cannot vote for her because of her connection to Monsanto.


Who could have ever dreamed that such an unethical vice could exist with our very flora/fauna?
I have only heard Ralph Nader talk of this.

Man's inhumanity to Man is truly astounding.

[gateley]

2. Thank you.

I learn more and more things that disturb me about the Clintons.