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7/26/2009 7:02 AM
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Pretty sad but typical - big corps use contractors or shell orgs so they can avoid being sued and they destroy the competition while doing it.

Monsanto Does 'Dust and Ditch' Destroying Local Organic Farm

* Organic Jar, July 16, 2009
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Grinnell Heritage Farm is 152 years old. Andrew Dunham is the fifth generation of his family to work this land about 50 miles east of Des Moines. He is a direct descendant of Josiah Grinnell, founder of the town and the man Horace Greeley once famously quoted as having said, "Go west, young man, go west." Andrew and his wife Melissa are a few months shy of receiving their formal certification as an organic farm.

Across the road, due north of their land, is a field of corn that is owned and managed by the Monsanto seed corn plant. In Iowa and anywhere commodity corn is grown, it is common practice around this time of year to use chemicals to control fungus. Often this is accomplished via the use of aerial application, commonly referred to as cropdusting. On July 6th, a rustic-looking old biplane swooped in to spray Monsanto's field. To put it mildly, the pilot's bombardiering skills were not what one would hope.

Dunham's crew was in the field picking broccoli and spinruts ("turnip" backwards-a Japanese form of the root vegetable). They witnessed the plane as it failed to shut off its spray mechanism, and the fungicide drifted into their fields. "The ground is in the third year of transition and would have become organically certified on September 1st," Andrew said. Now, probably not.

You'd think that this would be a clear-cut cause of action, as the legal folks would put it. But the clever folks at Monsanto hire the crop dusters as contractors, and they in turn use a corporate shell with no assets, so when something like this happens and a victim sues, they simply file bankruptcy and then form a new corporation.

A fellow cropduster, Bob Howard didn't see what the big deal was.

"If everything was Roundup Ready it would be the greatest thing in the world, if they would all go to Roundup Ready or all go back to conventional farming it would sure be a lot easier on us."

It's stunning that someone so obviously shortsighted was able to obtain a pilot's license. His apathy toward his community and flagrant self-centered simple-mindedness are indicative of the unconscious conspiracy to which so many are a party. They have all been bamboozled into believing in "Better living through chemistry." So much so, in fact, that the methods most farmers have used for a mere few decades are called "conventional," and the few who practice farming as it was done for millennia are the outliers. Monsanto's website even claims that they are "Growing yield sustainably."

Farmers like Andrew Dunham can do little more than stand in their contaminated fields in stunned silence as Monsanto's contracted crop dusters continue to fly in the face of logic. But Dunham and his family still manage to produce excellent food.

[link to www.organicconsumers.org]

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7/26/2009 7:14 AM

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Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.

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7/26/2009 7:19 AM

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7/30/2009 12:03 PM

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Bump for humanity.

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7/30/2009 12:06 PM

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i'll shoot down any crop dusters that stray over my sacred airspace for god and country

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7/30/2009 12:17 PM

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Crop dusting always drifts. There is no way it can be contained to just the field being sprayed. I live in rural Oregon, and believe me I have been observing crop dusting for over 60 years.

The "drift" from the herbicides, fungicides and pesticides of crop dusting affect the health of every person, animal and other living thing a long distance from the target fields.

The OP's post is another blatant example of man's inhumanity to man ... and Corporate's disregard for humanity.

imho

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7/30/2009 12:18 PM

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A lot of money in that. Now we need a certification for growing organic and sell it has it is. It cost 400.00 $ and more only for the certification. I agree with the principe that you have to follow organic concept but most of us will not go for it because we don't have time for paperwork. It is a very heavy work for having this certification and you can loose it has easy as it was for those peoples. I think the best way is going to the grower and buy on place. And like other organisation, you can put anything on paper. Who tell you (except the label) that the goods are really organic.

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7/30/2009 12:32 PM

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Quoting: Aquarius 7

You're right. There is now only 1 way to co-exist. Stop crop dusting and do it via tractors.

Wait a minute though. Can't MONSTERO just create a frankenstein seed that is immune to fungus? They'd save money from using cides if they did.

OR, perhaps their stuff is already immune and they just want to dust their neighbors.

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