Monsanto

Money.

vnescape wrote:

Why is Vietnam allowing Monsanto....maker of Agent Orange to bring in poison GMO's to the food chain here?

Read about it in Thanhnien news......use search word Monsanto.

DanFromSF wrote:

Money.

yeah...follow the money....but I wonder if they have considered what it will do to their export market in lieu of many Euros banning such poisons, not to mention that even China says...no thanks to GMO poison and refuses imports of GMO corn.

Yes because the VN government wants to increase production levels.

Most of the big, and bad, American food conglomerates are operating in VN. Archer Daniels Midland Company, Con Agra Foods, Cargill, Dole, General Mills, Nestlé, PepsiCo, etc.

hi

I feel lucky when I dont like those beverages and American food.

Time for Vietnamese to buy life insurance

Regards

I have a Thai friend in Thailand who is an ex-Monsanto staff and she told me she quit because she keep discovering deeper and deeper levels of evil while there and couldnt do anything about it. She said all of SE Asia is under Monsanto control and that was a few years ago. Myself, I only know its impossible to find heirloom seeds here, all seem to hybrid now and the growing results from seeds are DISMAL.

Monsanto isnt the only predator. Beatrice Foods in US once infamously said there was no reason Beatrice shouldnt be the worlds sole supplier of food and that they would achieve that one day. Dole and Del Monte are also famous food supply predators. Manufactured evil in food-farming-water supplying is a pretty old game. People wont act against them because in the end they have to eat, have to drink.

My hope and advice is to grab a small plot of land somewhere which has its own water and quietly farm it for a family's survival.

cvco wrote:

My hope and advice is to grab a small plot of land somewhere which has its own water and quietly farm it for a family's survival.

Many my friends have a garden on the roof. They can provide enough vegetables for family. Most of them have successful career, they are quite busy with work and take care family. But they still spend much time to grow vegetables, flower. And they spend much time for FB, for friends who have same habits too . I saw they shared many experiences about growing tree, making cake, cooking, taking care family.

Here my friend's garden: http://hn.eva.vn/nha-dep/me-man-vuon-ra … 93405.html

Actually it was my original idea about coming to VN to have a small farm. I know of a few expats who did that and was hoping to catch them to learn more.

cvco wrote:

Actually it was my original idea about coming to VN to have a small farm. I know of a few expats who did that and was hoping to catch them to learn more.

If so you should visit Da Lat. I am impressed by their farms. Some Japanese there

My small garden in my office, I can see some trees when I look out the window. I felt very relaxing... But these picture are taken by mobile, their quality are not good.

Nice weekends to everyone  !

ngattt wrote:

My small garden in my office, I can see some trees when I look out the window. I felt very relaxing... But these picture are taken by mobile, their quality are not good.

Nice weekends to everyone  !

Nice. You planted them by yourself?

Dejavu.dot wrote:

Nice. You planted them by yourself?

Yeah, I bought one tree last year. They flower some times, very beautiful. After that, I have many seeds of this tree, and there are many small trees in there. Just separate one into this pot about 40 days ago, and today morning it flower.

I dont have any pics of my garden in Malaysia but im dismayed that for the past 4 years I have been able to grow any flower but not any vegetable or fruit where the source was a seed. All my foods die within 6-12 months. I noticed my neighbors with the same results. A fellow nearby who owns a restaurant, he stole public land to grow food for his restaurant and 90% of it dies. Thats how you know you got hybrid instead of heirloom seeds. Someone in every country needs to start cultivating and storing heirloom seeds in seed banks for the future. They do in US, even though its becoming illegal, state by state, as Monsanto and DuPont gain power in the GMO field.