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DESCRIPTION:Monsanto's location near UC Davis and the USDA enable this biotech 
 corporation easy access to academia and government, with plenty of 
 financial promises to their state benefactors. This Mon Jul 17th on the 
 last day of the G8 nations conference, anti-biotech activists demand an end 
 to biotech GMO/GE monocrop monopolies and say NO GMO, NO SB 
 1056!!\n\nBeginning at 9 am on Mon Jul 17th info available in front of the 
 USDA building in Davis on SB 1056, the biotech sponsored bill that prevents 
 local communities from their Constitutional right to vote on whether or not 
 their town, city or county will allow Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) 
 aka Genetically Engineered (GE) seed crops to be grown in their voting 
 district. SB 1056 excludes local regulations and only allows for state 
 control, thus leaving the decisions on GMO/GE crops in the hands of 
 Arnold's biotech bully lobbyists in Sacramento.. \n\nUnited States 
 Government: USDA Bldg \n(530) 792-5500 \n(530) 792-5800 \n430 G St \nDavis, 
 CA 95616 \n\nCertified organic farmers are at great risk if SB 1056 passes 
 and GMO/GE crop pollen drifts onto their crops and contaminates their 
 pollen. Percy Schmeiser's canola crops in Canada were contaminated with 
 Monsanto's patented "Round-up Ready" GMO/GE canola and he wound up in court 
 for years being sued by Monsanto for "property theft" and "patent 
 infringement" and then the local Davis Calgene (Monsanto subsidiery) 
 representative has the nerve to show up at Jeffery Smith's talk and claim 
 that percy "stole the patent because he wanted the GMO/GE crop himself." 
 \n\nOrganic farmers have pride in their naturally evolved strains and don't 
 want cross contamination from Monsanto's gene spliced bionightmares.. 
 \n\nThe indigenous Zapotec farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico didn't want their 
 diverse land races of maize (corn) contaminated with Monsanto's "Bt" 
 (Bacillus thuringensis" GMO/GE corn either. Ignacio Chapela discovered this 
 contamination by Monsanto's Bt GMO/GE corn years ago and last year lost his 
 tenured position at UC Berkeley because he discussed the ethical 
 implications of Monsanto's habits of biocontamination via pollen drift and 
 biopatenting of living beings.. \n\nUC Davis themselves are recipients of 
 funding from their neighbor Monsanto, and the research potential is 
 directed into biotech instead of crop symbiosis, companion planting, and 
 other permaculture methods equally as scientific and effective for far less 
 expense. Not to mention safer for the ecosystem, consumer and farmer.. 
 \n\nFollowing the protest at the Davis USDA building on G Street, at 12 pm 
 we will march down 5th street to show the ease Monsanto employees have in 
 walking down 5th street if they want a quick favor from their friends at 
 the USDA. This reverse march will wave signs and banners in front of 
 Monsanto's Calgene subsidiary office at 1920 5th Street in Davis showing 
 how Monsanto exploits farmers, workers, ecosystems and consumers with their 
 biotech bully bills like SB 1056 and the global impacts of Monsanto's free 
 trade globalization policies.. \n\nMonsanto's Calgene office at this 
 address; \n\nCalgene Inc \n1920 5th St, Davis, CA \n(530) 753-6313 
 \n\nCalgene is the inventor of the famous Flavr-Savr tomatoes that 
 introduced genes from cold water deep sea fish (waaaay outside plant 
 species natural hybridization ability) into the domestic tomatoe. After 
 Calgene's science flopped they got taken over by biotech giant Monsanto. 
 Though Monsanto's science is also flawed (Round-up Ready GMO/GE crops 
 result in greater, not less applications of Round-up herbicides, ensuring 
 farmers remain hooked onto the pesticide/herbicide treadmill), through 
 genoerous US taxpayer subsidies and frivolous lawsuits (see Percy Schmeiser 
 canola pollen drift) Monsanto somehow manage to stay afloat with their 
 biotech patents.. \n\nAt 5pm after the Monsanto/Calgene protest people 
 remaining can enjoi the alternative to biotech GE/GMO food with a free 
 foodshare at the organic community farm directly across the street from 
 Monsanto/Calgene office. This example could include a quick tour of the 
 diverse garden and show how symbiotic crops can support one another and 
 also provide habitat for pollinators and beneficial predator insects. Bring 
 drums, musical insturments and also any scavanged fruits/veggies from 
 elsewhere to avoid pirating any of the community farm crops.. \n\nMonday 
 July 17th people will show that we won't stand for biotech corporations 
 using WTO/NAFTA and SB 1056 to take away local choice of farm crops and 
 food sovereignty. We also are aware of Monsanto, ADM, Cargill and other 
 biotech/ag giants attempts to monopolize potential biofuel crops like 
 maize/corn, soy, hemp etc.. with their biopatenting process. This G8 summit 
 as the wealthiest nations discuss the future of the world's energy, biotech 
 corporations like Monsanto attempt to use their corporate clout to control 
 both food and biofuel crops, preventing local decentralized economies form 
 existing. We the people rise up and say NO GMO! NO SB 1056! NO WTO! NO 
 MonsantO! control over our food and fuel crops in the US, Oaxaca and 
 elsewhere.. \n\nWe also say; \n\nSI Organics! SI Bioregionalismo! SI 
 Zapatismo! SI Biodiversity! \n\n\n\n\nfollowing is additional info from 
 previous GE/GMO plums article/comment, problems with UC Davis accepting 
 money from corporations; \n\nUC Davis is coerced to spend all their 
 research funding on biotech instead of crop diversity, permaculture and 
 more sustainable (not to mention more affordable) methods of farming. 
 Instead young minds at UC Davis are led down the path of genetic 
 engineering with the funding coming from their neighbor Monsanto (Calgene). 
 Other scientists like Mae-Wan Ho are prevented from being heard in the 
 local library. Her book entitled "The Fluid Genome" illustrates the 
 futility of depending on biotech for the continous evolution of genetic 
 variations and plant and insect phylogeny & biochemistry that occurs in 
 nature. Why not add this book to the UC Davis library so students can get a 
 balanced perspective, or are UC Davis biotech funders scared of a little 
 real science?? \n\n"In this two-part series, Dr Mae-Wan Ho describes why 
 Genetic Modification is unsafe. Growing scientific evidence suggests that 
 genes are not permanently fixed, but can change in response to their 
 environment. As a result, GM scientists cannot guarantee that the function 
 and structure of genes will remain unchanged once modified. This has 
 profound safety implications for genetically modified products and renders 
 quality control useless." \n\nmore on "the Fluid Genome" @; 
 \nhttp://www.bigpicture.tv/index.php?id=46&cat=&a=95 \n\nRecently Vandana 
 Shive came to speak at UC Davis and cautioned students on depending on 
 biotech to solve world hunger. She stated clearly that crop diversity and 
 farmers working with nature (instead of controlling) would be the answer to 
 world hunger. However, speakers who challenge biotech's science are a rare 
 occurance at US Davis. Maybe because UC Davis has their hands deep into the 
 biotech lobbyists cookie jar, from Monsanto to Genentech and Chiron (Solano 
 county neighbors).. \n\nMaybe we need some more direct action at UC Davis? 
 \n\n"..forest activists traveled to the UC campus in Davis where the 
 Davis-based Dendrome project seeks to map the genetics of majorcommercial 
 tree species, setting the stage for more aggressive research on tree 
 genetic engineering. Three experienced climbers from the Pacific Northwest 
 entered the Life Sciences building and suspended themselves by ropes from a 
 two-story-high DNA sculpture in the lobby. They stayed for several hours 
 while reporters snapped photos and several dozen supporters gathered 
 outside, demanding an end to GE tree research—and all corporate-funded 
 biotech research—at the University of California." \n\nmore on biotech 
 protest direct action @; \nhttp://zmagsite.zmag.org/Sept2003/tokar0903.html 
 \n\nnot to mention the UC Davis primate research center, also in cahoots 
 with biotech and big PHARMA; \n\n"The University of California-Davis \nAll 
 is not well in sunny California. In 2005, the USDA leveled a nearly $5,000 
 fine against UC-Davis for animal care violations that resulted in the 
 deaths of seven cynomalgus monkeys. According to the USDA, UC-Davis did not 
 properly maintain the thermostat or temperature cutoff switch in the 
 monkeys’ room, thus allowing the room to reach a scorching 115°F for 
 many hours at a time. \n\nUC-Davis is home to the California National 
 Primate Research Center (CNPRC), which houses approximately 5,000 primates. 
 While many institutions are phasing out animal experiments, UC-Davis is 
 expanding its primate facilities and is constructing a level-3 
 biocontainment lab for deadly viral infection studies on primates. UC-Davis 
 also subjects more primates to painful and distressing experiments than any 
 other U.S. university: More than 2,000 primates were used there in 2004. In 
 addition to this unparalleled exploitation of primates, more than 500 dogs, 
 400 cats, 450 rabbits, and 250 horses were used in painful or distressing 
 experiments at UC-Davis in 2004." \n\nmore on UC Davis primate research @; 
 \nhttp://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-worstlabs_04.asp \n\nPrimate research 
 may be a bit off the subject from GE trees, though the connecting thread is 
 that UC Davis is the enabling body that provides various corporations with 
 facilities to perform unethical experiments on primates and genetic 
 tampering with biotech plants. The USDA is supposed to be the regulatory 
 agency that provides the public with safety from dangerous and cruel 
 research activities from taking place in the Univesity system, though the 
 USDA has stopped functioning as a regulatory agency recently.. \n\nIs the 
 USDA Monsanto's HOE?? \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/14/18288022.php
SUMMARY:DAVIS: MARCH AND PROTEST @ Monsanto in solidarity w/ G8 days of action
LOCATION:9 A.M. -- meet at USDA office, located at: 430 G St \nDavis, CA 95616 
 \nNoon -- Mansanto, 1920 5th St, Davis, CA \n\nFrom the USDA building, 
 there will be a march, starting at noon. it will continue down 5th street 
 to show the ease Monsanto employees have in walking down 5th street if they 
 want a quick favor from their friends at the USDA. This reverse march will 
 wave signs and banners in front of Monsanto's Calgene subsidiary office at 
 1920 5th Street in Davis showing how Monsanto exploits farmers, workers, 
 ecosystems and consumers with their biotech bully bills like SB 1056 and 
 the global impacts of Monsanto's free trade globalization policies.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/14/18288022.php
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