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US Declares Iraqis Must Destroy Their Own Seeds
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Edited by Iman Khaduri
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- February 1, 2005
- For the record: "U.S. declares Iraqis
can not save their own seeds"
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- "As part of sweeping "economic
restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in
Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their
seeds, which include seeds the Iraqis themselves have developed
over hundreds of years. Instead, they will be forced to buy
seeds from US corporations. That is because in recent years,
transnational corporations have patented and now own many seed
varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples. In a
short time, Iraq will be living under the new American
credo:
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- "Pay Monsanto, or starve ."
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- "The American Administrator of the Iraqi
CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) government, Paul Bremer,
updated Iraq's intellectual property law to 'meet current
internationally-recognized standards of protection'. The updated
law makes saving seeds for next year's harvest, practiced by 97%
of Iraqi farmers in 2002, and is the standard farming practice
for thousands of years across human civilizations, to be now
illegal.. Instead, farmers will have to obtain a yearly license
for genetically modified (GM) seeds from American corporations.
These GM seeds have typically been modified from seeds developed
over thousands of generations by indigenous farmers like the
Iraqis, and shared freely like agricultural 'open source.'"
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- Iraq law Requires Seed Licenses November 13,
2004
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- "According to Order 81, paragraph 66 -
[B], issued by L. Paul Bremer [CFR], the people in Iraq are now
prohibited from saving seeds and may only plant seeds for their
food from licensed, authorized U.S. distributors.
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- The paragraph states, "Farmers shall be
prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any
variety mentioned in items 1 and 2 of paragraph [C] of Article
14 of this chapter."
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- Written in massively intricate legalese, Order
81 directs the reader at Article 14, paragraph 2 [C] to
paragraph [B] of Article 4, which states any variety that is
different from any other known variety may be registered in any
country and become a protected variety of seed - thus defaulting
it into the "protected class" of seeds and prohibiting
the Iraqis from reusing them the following season. Every year,
the Iraqis must destroy any seed they have, and repurchase seeds
from an authorized supplier, or face fines, penalties and/or
jail time."
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- As per an Iraqi proverb, the day will come,
sooner rather than later, when the Iraqis will shred Bremer's
Laws, soak them in water and offer the glass to Bremer to drink.
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- http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KHA501A.html
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- Iraqis Can't Save Seed
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- By Bud Landry
- January
19, 2005
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- "U.S. Declares Iraqis Can't Save Seed," by David Deschesne
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- According to Order 81, paragraph 66 -[B],
issued by L. Paul Bremer [CFR], the people in Iraq are now
prohibited from saving seeds and may only plant seeds for their
food from from licensed, authorized U.S. distributors.
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- The paragraph states, "Farmers shall be
prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any
variety mentioned in items 1 and 2 of paragraph [C] of Article
14 of this chapter."
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- Written in massively intricate legalese, Order
81 directs the reader at Article 14, paragraph 2 [C] to
paragraph [B] of Article 4, which states any variety that is
different from any other known variety may be registered in any
country and become a protected variety of seed - thus defaulting
it into the "protected class" of seeds and prohibiting
the Iraqis from reusing them the following season. Every year,
the Iraqis must destroy any seed they have, and repurchase seeds
from an authorized supplier, or face fines, penalties and/ or
jail time.
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- This is the freedom that comes with the
American form of democracy?
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- http://magic-city-news.com/article_2812.shtml
http://www.rense.com/general62/seeds.htm
