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Haitian farmers reject Monsanto seeds
Despite their desperate need of seed, Haitian farmers know what is good for them long term. After the earthquake much of the seed farmers were saving for planting went to feed people when they fled to rural areas in search of safety.
With such a small seed supply to grow more food some was needed. In stepped Monsanto to donate some hybrid seeds. These seeds, of saved the following growing year will not grow true to the plant that they were collected from. This means that farmers would have to go back to Monsanto to buy more seed the following year, and the following, and the following.
Benoit Griouard of Union Paysanne (a called Monsanto's donation "...and attack on Hatian farmers and the future of their local seeds." Chavannes Jean-Baptist of the Peasant Movement of Papay called on farmers to burn the Monsanto seeds.
The article is fascinating and gives one a lot to think about. Download the rest of the National Farmers Union article.