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More than 400 simultaneous demonstrations around the world are voicing fury at US biotech leviathan Monsanto, which is facing a hostile takeover from German pharmaceuticals company Bayer, RT reports.
“The whole world hates Monsanto!” read the banners among a throng in Paris, marching to the sound of a drum band.
This is happening as Nigeria just announced that it was accepting three varieties of Monsanto engineered maize seeds to be given to farmers.
Mr Kehinde Johnson, leader of Monsanto GMO big corp in Nigeria, Monsanto Agriculture Nigeria Limited last week announced that three “high yielding conventional maize hybrids” were registered and to be sold to cripple farmers and destroy the land.
The world meanwhile is rejecting Monsanto and other engineered organisms with Russia promising to lead the world as its top organic food producer.
#OMPSG https://t.co/L3cRGLOY4o Incroyable mobilisation marche contre #Monsanto et la transparence alimentaire Éti… pic.twitter.com/v9gJOqavNB
— Occupycentre Debout! (@Occupycentre) May 21, 2016
#Tomorrowland https://t.co/l8ALWZcr6E RT presley243: #MarchAgainstMonsanto NYC #freetheseeds pic.twitter.com/E1HoZmpfcm
— Occupycentre Debout! (@Occupycentre) May 21, 2016
WATCH ‘March against #Monsanto’ activists rally in cities around the world https://t.co/HfGxaEpQpb #GMO pic.twitter.com/JWbVKJwu6e
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) May 21, 2016