You've bought the leftist agitprop hook, line and sinker. Only an anti-capitalist could think that a company wants to force its customers out of business.
They want the land and don't want the competition..
Monsanto wants the land? That's nuts. Most family farms use commercial seed, and even if it isn't GMO, it is hybridized. Monsanto is the biggest in the industry because they provide products that farmers willingly purchase because they find value in it.
They regularly sue these farms for "illegally using Monsanto crops".
Regularly? Really? Monsanto has more than a quarter million customer who sign purchase agreements with Monsanto every year. Over the last 12 years, there have been less than 150 legal actions between Monsanto and their contracted customers. Of those, only about 10 have ever been required a trial for resolution. For a company of that size, with hundreds of thousands of contracts, to only have about 12 legal actions a year is pretty damn low. Those are not the kinds of numbers a rational person would describe as "regularly."
I prefers God's genetic structure in my food and should have the choice regarding what I eat.
Just about everything you eat these days has been genetically modified. If you only ate what was originally found on earth, you'd probably starve. No one is forcing you to do anything. You can find non-GMO labeled food if you want to find it. If this is such a big issue, then the market will deliver options for you without you demanding big government force the market to provide it for you. That is, unless you want government to have even more power over industry......
How many more years do you have left at monsanto before you can retire?
What about the number of Monsanto legal actions against those not under contract to them? Contract disputes are one thing, taking action against one not under contract because of DNA issues of crops is entirely different.
GMO crops are no big deal to me, the overbearing brutality of how Monsanto works is where I have my problem with them. The federal government has far too much control over our food production, whether it be with subsidies or siding with companies such as Monsanto and that federal control needs to be reined in.
I primarily plant heirloom crops, but do enjoy several specific hybrids which I regularly plant. But I also like playing with the seeds of those hybrids by saving some for another planting and seeing what I come up with. It's a fun, and harmless little hobby, but one that some frown upon, which is why Monsanto (among others) seek to patent their seeds and then come after those who have crops that show some of "their" DNA.