There is an emerging story of our activity at this part of the world, towards efforts to push for sustainable and holistic farming. Folks used to write letters, physical letters, often hand written, then put it in an envelope, attach a stamp, and mail it.
Phil Harrison had arranged for Ms Doreen Dewell to speak about GMO at Fraser Valley University near Abbotsford.I went to attend and audio recorded her speech.
At FVU during Doreen Dewell’s talk on GMO
Folks don’t do that any more. Only thing you get by mail is bills and junk mail. Now folks send email, but that too is dying out. Folks send messages on phone, on Skype, on Facebook, Twitter, Google plus and God knows through how many more channels.
So, here is one of the things that I have been getting, and these are a few of my favorite things. GE free BC or GMO free BC (same thing) is something I got involved in, since I attended the Social Justice Film Festival in White Rock, and came to know Bobbie Blair, Phil Harrison and others.
An exchange with Donna Passmore
One thing lead to another. And thus, I ended up making that post on Twitter and getting a response, for example, from Donna Passmore of Farmland Defence of White Rock. I am nota hundred percent sure what Farmland Defence is – but I guess I shall find out soon enough.
We need a local champion in White Rock, a resident, who will take this up, and we shall be helping and supporting him. I do not live in White Rock myself. Phil Harrison does not either. Rick Ketcheson lives there, but he is focussing on gardening in White Rock. So, we are still in search for a champion for GE free White Rock.
Then, I’d like to mention Organic Whole Foods. They have a presence in Twitter – @OrganicLiveFood, with the face of a woman. She is a live wire and a super-prolific tweet person with almsot a single handed focus on informing people against GMO and against questionable chemical dependent farming. She has almost 80,000 followers. I am one of them, because she single handedly focuses against Monsanto and the GM-biotech industry. I suppose she is raising awareness and public interest in eating safe food, and the organisation she is working for, intends to promote and sell organic only food.
So, anyhow, she complained about supporters of Coca Cola & Pepsi apparently tried to tell her followers that she had been misinforming people about those beverages. That got my attention. And I had to respond. I dug up Sunita Narain’s great work in India about these beverage giants and how they hoodwink the people, selling junk beverages, stealing free the ground water supply from the area, reducing the availability of good water for the villagers and passing contaminants into the drink.
So I passed some of that info onto her and her followers. This is a good way, as good as many others, in passing information and raising general awareness, I guess. But the real treat is watching Sunita Narain herself.
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Meanwhile, Lucy Fischetti Nickel drew my attention to something going on on the GMO Free Canada page on Facebook. The tread started with a poster and dealt with Monsanto and a new bill being signed in the US, that presumably makes it difficult for people to sue Monsanto, or something.
So, on that FB page, there was a sort of argument ongoing between two sides. And one of them, questioning those that wish the bill, which the identify as a Monsanto Protection Bill, had not passed.
One of the comments drew my attention. The question was, if GMO crop contained poison and lots of folks were being poisoned without their knowledge, why was there not a charge brought against the supplier of the GMO?
Well, I thought I might post there. But the thread, strangely, appeared to be frozen and not accepting more comments. So, I shall make it here.
There is a trend that shows how corporations do not get charged, or any case do not get to pay for damages caused by their product.
Vietnamese folks did not get compensated for deaths, birth defects and health problems from exposure to Agent Orange.
Americans did not fully get compensated for lung decease from exposure to asbestos.
Americans did not get compensated for lung decease and other health problems from smoking, while products did not carry adequate health warnings.
Relatives of 25,000 Indians that died from exposure to cyanide from a leaking Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India in the 1980s did not get compensated till date.
When methane and other nasty stuff is coming up into ground water and soil due to fracking, folks are not getting compensated.
There are umpteen examples of Corporations either avoiding getting charged, or avoiding getting penalized for what may amount to crime against humanity.
Why is justice thus denied? You tell me.
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