Democracy Now 5

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From: Cynthia Davila <cynthiadav95@mail.fresnostate.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Subject: Democracy Now 5
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Democracy 5 

03-19-14

Cynthia Davila 

The two topics that I learned about on democracy now were about the UN panel having enough evidence to indict Syrian combatants for War crimes and France banning Monsanto GM corn. In the first topic, the United Nations investigators have expanded their list of suspected war criminals from both sides of Syria's civil war. Paulo Pinheiro the panel chair and Carla Del Ponte the inquiry member said they've collected enough evidence to indict. Carla Del Ponte says, "I just say as former prosecutor that I would be glad to be prosecutor of this office of the prosecutor, because the commission have collected a lot of evidence that can be used tomorrow to prepare an indictment," which errands that she agrees with the incident and she is ready and prepared to support It. I think that's great that they finally have enough evidence to stop war crimes. 

The second topic that I heard was about France and how they have banned the agribusiness giant Monsanto's genetically modified corn ahead of the season annually of sowing maize. The corn is the only diversity allowed in the European Union. Although, France has long attempted to ban all the GM crops, causing threats to health and the environment. After I read that, I further examined why they have been banned and according to the editor of Buzzflash at Truthout, it says, "The sale, use and cultivation of varieties of maize seed from the line of genetically modified maize MON 810(...) is banned in the country until the adoption, on the one hand, of a final decision, and secondly, of (EU) community action" showing that the annual sowing of maize in France gets under way in the second half of March. I will continue to research that topic because it seems very interesting to me they banned corn because it is a sign of firm opposition to modified seeds.