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Cartoon courtesy of gmeducation Farmers describe failure of Roundup ready crops TRANSGENIC CROPS CONTAMINATE CONVENTIONAL SEED AND UNDERMINE PREMIUM NON-GMO MARKETS Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | April 3, 2014 In a recent comment submitted to the USDA/APHIS on my opposition to the proposed co-existence policy, I describe how a growing number of GMO farmers actually want off the stacked-traits transgenic treadmill . In the coming days I will be posting a variety of evidence of this phenomenon gleaned from video and audio clips and ethnographic narratives from ongoing policy action research by a fairly diverse group of colleagues associated with a nonGMO listserv. Farmers are the best source for direct knowledge of the experience of working with transgenic crops. Here is one of those GMO American farmers explaining why he wants to get off the treadmill and wishes for preferably non-GMO alternatives to the current desperate situation farmers face across the globe. Monsanto’s technology i...

Huichol yarn weaving of a sacred ceremony for maize USDA Co-Existence Policy Proposal Statement of Dr. Devon G. Peña The Acequia Institute Submitted to USDA-APHIS | March 4, 2014 I am submitting this statement to express opposition to the proposed USDA co- existence policy. As a plant breeder, seed saver, traditional acequia farmer, and agro-ecologist familiar with the scientific evidence on gene flow I am unequivocally opposed to this policy. Asking for co-existence with GMO crops means seed-savers and plant breeders like myself have to accept the inevitability of severe business losses due to damage to our native seed stocks and active plant breeding programs. I ask that you consider the fact that farmers like myself are the keepers of the nation’s diverse bioregional ‘arks’ of native seeds and these are the ultimate basis of all agriculture in this country. As vulnerable traditional seed savers, we cannot accept co-existence. The scientific fact of gene flow makes it so. Let’s not p...