[Diogenesis]

Obama signed something making
them exempt from all future lawsuits.

Payoff must have been steep when the payoff
company learned the truth and kept it hidden.

[diamond6]

How do organic farmers deal with pests?

[tbpiper]

would make corn plants poisonous to the corn rootworm but harmless to other creatures

Yeah,right.

[GoDuke]

Save for later.

[Buckeye McFrog]

God 1
Monstanto 0

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is actually a serious problem, for an odd reason.

Patents still remain in effect even if the patent is obsolete.

And courts have ruled that if GM pollen lands on the crop of another farmer, the patent owner deserves royalties from that crop, and the farmer may even lose ownership of his crop, in unusual cases.

This would take this problem even further, giving to the GM patent holder rights to other crops, even though their GM provided no value whatsoever.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Though the use of chemical pesticides has always been a source of contention, the advent of corn hybrid plants by biotech companies like Monsanto allowed farmers to cut back on their use.

Less chemicals? That's awful!

[PAR35]

Is this a “Pimp my blog” exercise? No author and no website named, just a link.

[MrB]

Notice what they are GMing them to do -

make them able to withstand a good soaking in Roundup.

So, the plants and the beans bioaccumulate a boatload of glysophate... YUMMM YUMMM!

[factoryrat]

Law of unintended consequences claims yet another victim. Now monsanto has patents on plants that are prone to disease and pests. Sounds like an awesome business plan there. Of course, that may have been the plan all along.