Millions March Against Monsanto

Millions March Against Monsanto: A Global Awakening Covered Up By The Media




Daisy Luther
Activist Post

Over 2 million people peacefully took to streets around the world to
protest the poisoning of the global food supply by the biotech giant,
Monsanto.

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media has been pretty quiet about the event.

After relentless phone calls and emails by protesters, some coverage has
finally been achieved, preventing the event from being completely
blacked out. The same article was published throughout global media,
including Yahoo, CTV, Huffington Post, ABC News, and the UK Guardian.
The article downplayed the magnitude of the March and the importance of
the cause:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Protesters rallied in
dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant
Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizers
said. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Organizers said “March
Against Monsanto” protests were held in 52 countries and 436 cities,
including Los Angeles where demonstrators waved signs that read “Real
Food 4 Real People” and “Label GMOs, It’s Our Right to Know.” </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Genetically
modified plants are grown from seeds that are engineered to resist
insecticides and herbicides, add nutritional benefits or otherwise
improve crop yields and increase the global food supply. (Huffington Post)</blockquote>
Discover even published a hit piece, calling the event “cartoonish”:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">The only thing that’s truly being poisoned is
the biotech debate by such rhetoric. I’m also willing to bet that
organizers are being as truthful about the number of marchers as they
are about the science on genetically modified foods…Nonetheless, there
does seem to be many people who buy the notion that dangerous GMOs are
being foisted on the world by Monsanto.</blockquote>The truth of the matter is, over two million people marched in more than 50 countries around the globe (See RT’s excellent timeline of
the global event). Despite the grudging media coverage in the
mainstream, a sleeping giant has awakened. Many people will no longer
accept that what lines grocery store shelves is safe to eat.

We know that we have been sold out, betrayed by the politicians that
were duly elected to represent the wishes of their constituencies. The
day before the event, the US Senate shot down a bill that
would have allowed individual states to require labeling of GMOs. We
are fighting a company with billions of dollars, links to the FDA, the
USDA and the Supreme Court, and a whole bunch of sketchy politicians in
their back pockets. They have fought a sneaky social media war against us, and will continue to pull out all the stops to marginalize the movement against them.

So…

We have to keep the momentum going that we have achieved with the March
Against Monsanto. Don’t let it end on May 25, 2013. The only way to
defeat Monsanto and the rest of the biotech industry is by spreading
information far and wide. We clearly cannot rely on the mainstream media
to do this, as evidenced above. So we must use social media,
alternative media, and word of mouth.

Print off some labels
and put them in the grocery store. Organize your own pickets and hand
out flyers in front of the grocery store, letting people know what
they’re buying. Go to farmers markets and support your local growers. Sow the seeds of revolution by growing as much of your own food as possible. Most of all, vote with your wallet and
don’t buy ANYTHING that puts money into the pockets of companies that
support GMOs or that fought against California’s Proposition 37, which
would have called for the labeling of GMOs.

source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/millions-march-against-monsanto-global.html