Argentina’s citizens block construction of Monsanto GMO plant, fight to protect sanctity of seeds and food against corporate imperialism

Wednesday, February 17, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Agri-giant Monsanto continues to lose the public affairs battle with the people of the world who, by the hundreds of millions, are catching on to the dangers of genetically modified foods.

For more than three years now, protestors in Malvinas, Argentina have blocked the construction of what would become Monsanto’s second-largest seed plant in Latin American after the local council approved construction of the plant.

“Cordobeses (residents of Cordoba) will be proud to have one of the most important (seed-producing) plants in the world,” Monsanto’s website claims, according to GMWatch. “The more than one thousand employees of Monsanto Argentina are proud and thankful to be a part of the community of Malvinas, Argentina.”

However, after Monsanto broke ground for the plant in September 2013, “a group of activists blockaded the plant’s five entrances and set up camp,” the site noted.

Soon after, a court injunction halted construction officially in January 2015, but protesters have recently been handed an eviction notice, delivered at Monsanto’s request, prompting local activists to mobilize further to strengthen the blockade. After that, a prosecutor suspended the eviction order.

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