Dow-DuPont Merger Will Cripple Farmers and Food Sovereignty, Groups Warn

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[Java4Jay]

“Today’s wave of agribusiness and food company mega-mergers is surrendering our food system to a corporate cabal that thwarts our efforts to build an fair and healthy food system. Together, the two companies would control 76% of the market for corn and 66% of the market for soybeans"

[Sacajaweau]

Don’t ever forget.....It’s ALWAYS about profit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The screaming Leftist nujobs on college radio may actually have a point on this one.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[ to build an fair and healthy food system. ]

Is it just me, or does this sound like just regular liberal outrage??

[NorthMountain]

Those damned evil capitalists ... always trying to make a profit.

[DPMD]

And, if they were honest - snort - they would see the further point in substituting “food system” with “health care system” in noting that control of such a huge majority of an industry by a single entity - in this case the Federal government - is detrimental to Americans.

If they were honest.

[dfwgator]

Anti-Trust Laws, what are those?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Who controls the food
controls the country !

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bayer is buying Monsanto too.

[Carry me back]

This isn’t good.

[Rurudyne]

What we need is the court to rule that incidental cross pollination of crops that are not genetically modified with those that are represents an Act of God and thereby invalidates the patent claims for whatever seed results from that crop.

[dljordan]

“Those damned evil capitalists ... always trying to make a profit. “

Profit? Fine, but when they go buying politicians and bureaucrats and writing legislation they become your masters.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Do you mean that the Chinese don't want to control
our food supply ?
There must be something wrong here, already !!

[NorthMountain]

I’m all in favor of limiting the government to those powers explicitly delegated to it in the Constitution.

The problem is not that congressmen and bureaucrats are corrupt and can be bought. The problem is that they’re worth buying.

[central_va]

Today’s wave of agribusiness and food company mega-mergers is surrendering our food system to a corporate cabal that thwarts our efforts to build an fair and healthy food system

Why is the industrial base and manufacturing not so important?

[dfwgator]

Profit? Fine, but when they go buying politicians and bureaucrats and writing legislation they become your masters.

It's called "Fascism."

[HarleyLady27]

Their agenda is to turn off the water, California for example, not being able to grow crops, and obuma will blame green house gases for this...

Meantime, FEMA is ready for all of us to beg the government for food, look at Venezuela for an example, that is what is coming here, to us, prepare folks, prepare now...

[VTenigma]

Anti=trust monopolistic merger on it’s face. But I’m sure the right people got their payola so it should happen anyway.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The danger is, as we know, no elitist is anywhere NEAR as smart as he thinks he is.

Thus there is a high probability they will screw-up and engineer a global famine by accident.

[Scrambler Bob]

The Chinese can wait till our food supply is all one monopoly.

Then control that.