Since her early days of activism
in the 1960s protesting the Vietnam War when she was an undergrad
student in Texas, Grass Valley resident Pamela Osgood has been arrested
150 times as a practicing "steward of the world."
Last
May, her loyalty to the health of the human race landed her in the
Woodland Jail after she and a small band of folks from Nevada County and
other parts of the state formed a blockade in front of Monsanto's
largest seed research center in the U.S.
Monsanto
is a Fortune 500, modern agricultural company that employs over 20,000
people globally in 69 countries, according to Monsanto's website.
Monsanto, acquired by Bayer Crop Science Ag in 2016, is known for its
biotech seeds like Roundup Ready Corn.
"The
work that is going on in there is really dreadful. We have to get
people educated about what Monsanto is doing. Monsanto is poisoning
everyone," Osgood said.
Osgood
and her sister (a grandmother) were among 10 environmental and human
rights activists known as the "Monsanto 10" arrested in the early
morning last spring when they tried to block Monsanto staffers arriving
to work at the 90,000-square-foot research facility in Yolo County. The
protest was one of more than 400 "Anti-Monsanto/Anti-GMO" demonstrations
held worldwide in 47 states and 52 countries on six continents.
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