A group of angry farmers in Argentina have successfully stopped the expansion of a Monsanto facility and have halted future construction plans. Farmers, anti-GMO activists, and concerned citizens bravely occupied the Monsanto plant in Malvinas, Argentina, by descending on the property and refusing to vacate. Csglobe.com reports: “Residents of an Argentinian town have forced one of Monsanto’s half-completed GMO seed plants to be dismantled,” says Christina Sarich, writing for the Underground Reporter. “Activists have been marching, petitioning, and talking to the government as well as Monsanto for three years now to urge them to disallow the company’s latest expansion — a multi-million dollar, genetically modified seed plant.” Activists create blockade preventing construction of GMO facility Monsanto previously tried to gain local support by saying that residents “will be proud to have one of the most important [seed-producing] plants in the world… The more than one thousand employees of Monsanto Argentina are proud and thankful to be a part of the community of Malvinas, Argentina.” The expansion project was designed to treat 3.5 million hectares of maize, but only 2.5 million hectares were actually sown, leading the biotech giant to pull out of the project. Residents from Argentina were reportedly ordered [...]
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