
Rural Haitian farmers gathered in Papaye on World Environment Day 2010, many wearing straw hats reading, "Aba Monsanto = down with Monsanto"
Lowlife, Cocksucking, Motherfucking, Amerikin Capitalist punks attempt to take advantage of Starving Haitians and taint their sacred land with Monsanto’s demon seed!!
Let It Burn
Nearly 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn seeds and other vegetable seeds were donated to post-earthquake Haiti by Monsanto. In observance of World Environment Day, June 4, 2010, roughly 10,000 rural Haitian farmers gathered in Papaye to march seven kilometers to Hinche in celebration of this gift. Upon arrival, these rewarded farmers took their collective Easter baskets of more than 400 tons of vegetable seeds and burned them all.[i] “Long live the native maize seed!” they chanted in unison. “Monsanto’s GMO [genetically modified organism] & hybrid seed violate peasant agriculture!”
“A fabulous Easter gift,” commented Monsanto Director of Development Initiatives Elizabeth Vancil.
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