{"id":5443,"date":"2011-02-01T23:49:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2011-02-02T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T11:54:29","slug":"australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/02\/01\/australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s First Legal Attack on Monsanto for GM Contamination of Organically Certified Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculture.org.au\/2011\/02\/01\/australias-first-legal-attack-on-monsanto-for-gm-contamination-of-organically-certified-crops\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5447\" title=\"110202_monsanto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/110202_monsanto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Over the Christmas and New Year, whilst people on the east and south  of Australia were suffering floods and their consequences, one farmer,  much further west, discovered a far more insidious flood was occurring  on his property. He is also reeling from the consequences. Steve Marsh is the farmer of an organic certified property near Kojonup, south-east of Perth in Western Australia. Well, I must correct myself \u2013 it is now more accurate to say that he <em>was<\/em> the farmer of an organic certified property\u2026. In December, Western  Australia\u2019s Department of Agriculture conducted tests which confirmed  that 70% of Steve\u2019s wheat and oats crops have been  contaminated by  Monsanto\u2019s Roundup Ready canola, grown on a neighbouring farm. Due to  Monsanto\u2019s inability to control the spread of their \u2018product\u2019, Steve\u2019s  farm has lost its organic certification, and is accordingly facing  significant financial losses as a result.\u00c2\u00a0 The offending farmer has apparently &#8220;complied with his obligation to  keep a 5m buffer between his GM crop and the adjoining farm.&#8221; (weeklytimesnow.com). We should know by now that the only way to stop the spread of GMO plants is complete elimination (see also).  A bee can carry pollen kilometres in a day. A five metre buffer   between GM and non-GM crops is meaningless fine print which only serves  to hasten the rapid spread of Big Biotech\u2019s \u2018proprietary technology\u2019,  and create potentially new captive customers of the same. <a href=\"http:\/\/permaculture.org.au\/2011\/02\/01\/australias-first-legal-attack-on-monsanto-for-gm-contamination-of-organically-certified-crops\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: Monsanto | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/permaculture.org.au\/2011\/02\/01\/australias-first-legal-attack-on-monsanto-for-gm-contamination-of-organically-certified-crops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Permaculture Research Institute of Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Christmas and New Year, whilst people on the east and south of Australia were suffering floods and their consequences, one farmer, much further west, discovered a far more insidious flood was occurring on his property. He is also reeling from the consequences. Steve Marsh is the farmer of an organic certified property near&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-monsanto","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}