Community Garden Magazine Issue Five January 2016 | Page 85

Order in the Court
One of the world’s most criminally corrupt corporations will finally get its day in
court. And it won’t be pretty.
OCA, along with IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration
International (RI), Millions Against Monsanto and dozens of global food,
farming, environmental justice groups announced today that they will put
Monsanto MON (NYSE) on trial for crimes against nature and humanity, and
ecocide.
The announcement was made at a press conference held in conjunction with the
COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, November 30 – December
11, in Paris.
“The time is long overdue for a global citizens’ tribunal to put Monsanto on
trial for crimes against humanity and the environment. We are in Paris this
month to address the most serious threat that humans have ever faced in
our 100-200,000 year evolution—global warming and climate disruption.
Why is there so much carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in the
atmosphere and not enough carbon organic matter in the soil? Corporate
agribusiness, industrial forestry, the garbage and sewage industry and
agricultural biotechnology have literally killed the climate-stabilizing, carbonsink capacity of the Earth's living soil.” - Ronnie Cummins, international
director of the OCA (US) and Via Organica (Mexico), and member of the RI
Steering Committee.

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