Brazilian Farmers Win Big Against Monsanto   Leave a comment

Reblogged from Earth First! Newswire:

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Crossposted from Reader Supported News

Five million Brazilian farmers have taken on US based biotech company Monsanto through a lawsuit demanding return of about 6.2 billion euros taken as royalties from them. The farmers are claiming that the powerful company has unfairly extracted these royalties from poor farmers because they were using seeds produced from crops grown from Monsanto’s genetically engineered seeds, reports Merco Press.

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Posted June 17, 2012 by nonviolentconflict in Discussion

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