{"id":5555,"date":"2011-03-28T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2011-03-30T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:49:22","slug":"the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/03\/28\/the-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for Biodiversity: Monsanto and Farmers Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/life\/archive\/2011\/03\/the-battle-for-biodiversity-monsanto-and-farmers-clash\/73117\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5558\" title=\"110330_monsanto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/110330_monsanto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Two weeks ago, Monsanto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.growersforwheatbiotechnology.org\/html\/news.cfm?ID=1067\">announced<\/a> the latest genetically engineered crop it hopes to bring to market: a soybean rejiggered to resist the herbicide dicamba. The new product, says Monsanto, will aid in weed control and &#8220;deliver peace of mind for growers.&#8221; Meanwhile, half a world away, La Via Campesina, a farmers&#8217; movement of 150 organizations from 70 countries, had a slightly different idea about what would bring peace of mind to its millions of members: protecting biodiversity. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viacampesina.org\/en\/\">its statement<\/a> to those gathered\u00c2\u00a0in Bali\u00c2\u00a0for the United Nations\u00c2\u00a0treaty on plant genetics, the organization urged treaty drafters to\u00c2\u00a0reevaluate the legal framework that allows seed patenting and the spread of genetically engineered crops, like those Monsanto soybeans. These genetically modified crops and the international patent regime, La Via Campesina said, block farmers&#8217; ability to save and share seeds, threatening biodiversity and food security. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/life\/archive\/2011\/03\/the-battle-for-biodiversity-monsanto-and-farmers-clash\/73117\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: Monsanto | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/life\/archive\/2011\/03\/the-battle-for-biodiversity-monsanto-and-farmers-clash\/73117\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, Monsanto announced the latest genetically engineered crop it hopes to bring to market: a soybean rejiggered to resist the herbicide dicamba. The new product, says Monsanto, will aid in weed control and &#8220;deliver peace of mind for growers.&#8221; Meanwhile, half a world away, La Via Campesina, a farmers&#8217; movement of 150 organizations&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":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","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=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}