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Haiti's New Earthquake: USAID Delivers Monsanto's Poison Pills
Take Action in Solidarity with Haitian Farmers Who Vow to Burn 
Monsanto's Seeds

Monsanto will be giving Haiti 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid 
corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic 
pesticides. Hybrid seeds have to be purchased and planted every year.

Monsanto's seeds will be distributed by the United States Agency for 
International Development's (USAID) WINNER program. USAID is a tax-payer 
funded agency that promotes the United States' interests abroad. It is 
run by Dr. Rajiv Shah, an Obama appointee that the Organic Consumers 
Association opposed because of his work with the explicitly pro-GMO 
Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation works closely with Monsanto.

Haitian peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant 
Movement of Papay (MPP) called Monsanto's poison pills Haiti's “new 
earthquake.” The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds and has 
called for a march to protest the corporation’s presence in Haiti on 
June 4, for World Environment Day.

Like other US efforts to deprive Haiti of food security, dumping 
Monsanto’s seeds on Haiti's farmers will seriously undermine Haitian 
farmers’ independence, force an industrialized agriculture model on the 
impoverished nation and seriously threaten public health in the country.

Haiti’s farmers need support and solidarity to rebuild their local food 
and farming economy, not profit-driven industrial agriculture and hybrid 
seeds. Since independence more than 200 years ago, Haitian farmers have 
protected their seeds. They know that true food security is maintained 
by the farmers who save, trade and breed indigenous seeds using 
traditional methods.