On March 7 — the day before International Women’s Day — dozens of Brazilian women occupied a research site of the US-based agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, destroying a greenhouse and experimental plots of genetically-modified corn.
Participants, members of the international farmers’ organization International Peasant Movement, stated in a note that the act was to protest the Brazilian government’s decision in February to legalize Monsanto’s genetically-modified Guardian corn, which came just weeks after the French government prohibited the corn due to environment and human health risks.
LATINAMERICAPRESS
Apr 3, 2008
BRAZIL: Women say “no” to Monsanto in Brazil
Labels: BRAZIL, emancipation, equality, freedom, inequality, inspiration, rights
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