Posted on 04/11/2016 12:30:08 PM PDT by Trump20162020
ARLINGTON, Iowa (Reuters) - Tim Burrack, a northern Iowa farmer in his 44th growing season, has taken to keeping a wary eye out for unfamiliar vehicles around his 300 acres of genetically modified corn seeds.
Along with other farmers in this vast agricultural region, he has upped his vigilance ever since Mo Hailong and six other Chinese nationals were accused by U.S. authorities in 2013 of digging up seeds from Iowa farms and planning to send them back to China.
The case, in which Mo pleaded guilty in January, has laid bare the value -- and vulnerability -- of advanced food technology in a world with 7 billion mouths to feed, 1.36 billion of them Chinese.
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I though GMO seed was evil?
Now they’re digging it up to send to China?
It’s China. They’d steal cyanide from us, just on general principles.
What those people need is a good famine followed by random acts of cannibalism, resulting in the deaths of 60 millions people.
It worked out well the 1st time they did that, in the 1950s.
With China having so much money they could pay for it. Is business they are cheaters by basis. Also many farmers have their seeds posted in the fields, No “Mo” for corn for him.
Then why don’t they steal our dogs and cats?................................
Mo Hailong and six other Chinese nationals could have bought the seeds just like whoever planted them.
Mo Hailong and six other Chinese nationals either has a terminal stupid or this is some fake crap.
I vote fake crap.
Just what China needs to add to all the pollution - GMO crops to further harm their people.
Would it not be easier to just buy a farm, buy a few hundred pounds of Monsanto GMO seeds, plant all but a bag or two and them figure out how to get those seeds back to China? Why dig up the seeds?
The chinese have been stealing agricultural assets for years. The following is from a commenter at http://adamapples.blogspot.com/2010/01/pacific-rose-sciros.html:
“Also, I’m sure the (Pacific) Rose (apple) was the one involved in the ‘underpants’ saga. A visiting Chinese delegation were stopped at by customs as the airport as they left New Zealand. The ones without diplomatic protection were searched and quite literally had their undergarments stuffed with Pacific Rose budwood. Unfortunately the ones with diplomatic protection had equally bulging pants....”
LOL!
And then package it into their pet food, and milk formula ... if it will save a penny.
“...resulting in the deaths of 60 millions people.”
Sixty million deaths wouldn’t even begin to put a dent into China’s population problem.
When China and Russia were fighting on the border in 1969 and Russia threatened a nuclear strike, Mao is reported to have said, “go ahead, give me 100 million fewer mouths to feed.”
fake.
Bill Clinton would have given it to them for nothing. Maybe a small donation to the foundation.
While I can't substantiate it, there are rumors that the Chinese were roaming the woods in northern Michigan last spring looking for morel mushrooms to send back to China......
Costs more than they are worth on the market just to send them from here to there. If it were profitable the Norks would be doing it.
My Chinese friend said that in Chinese culture it’s ok to break any rule as long as you don’t get caught.
Hey, they could charge more because it’s IMPORTED!
Domestic dog and cat just doesn’t have that flavor and succulence that imported ones do!....................
Payback for when the Brits stole tea plants and tea cultivation tech from China.
Irony is that India had native tea plants that actually made better tea in India than the Chinese plants... It took a long time to get the Chinese strains bred out of the Indian strains...
We are to trusting and open as a culture.
The rest of the world views the West as fools and idiots.
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