Monsanto and the other biggees like ADM (Archer, Daniels, Midland) etc., are genetically engineering farm foods with all sorts of claims about increased yield, resistance to drought, and so on, but their only real goal is to engineer hybrids the seeds of which will not germinate.
The net effect is that we can no longer grow our own seed stock, we have to go back and buy more germinatable seeds from them. It is an effort to exert more control over the general populace: control the food supply, and you control the people.
Screw these tyrant sphincters where they breathe, they should all be hung for treason. IMHO.
Those Bastards! Norman Borlaug did the same thing. It was called the "Green Revolution." In the process, the bastard and his GM foods saved anywhere from hundreds of millions to billions of people - a large percentage of them children - from starving to death. Damn him and his genetically engineered farm foods!
but their only real goal is to engineer hybrids the seeds of which will not germinate.
From what I understand, commercially planted corn is not open pollinated. If so, farmers won’t save the kernels from their current crop to plant in the future. Farmers, at least the ones I know, have paperwork and receipts regarding the seed for every crop planted. These anti-Monsanto threads always bring charges of Monsanto suing all sorts of small farmers into bankruptcy simply because their crops unintentionally cross polinated with a patented hybrid. I've yet to see a case of this actually happening, but we hear about it all the time.
The net effect is that we can no longer grow our own seed stock, we have to go back and buy more germinatable seeds from them.
What seed are you talking about? It's been a long time since serious farmers kept the best seeds from their crops to use as seed in the future. The reason is that seed companies produce different varieties of corn seed for farmers to buy and use as their seed stock that is far superior to the seed they used to save. These hybrid seeds, produced by evil companies like Monsanto, have resulted in a significant increase in yields. And yes, you can't save seed from this corn to be used later. Even so, serious farmers haven't kept corn seed for as long as I've been alive....which is long before all this nonsense about GMO seeds and Monsanto ruling the world ever became popular.
The same thing is now happening with soybeans. You can make the claim that we'd all be better off without these hybrid seeds, but the fact that farmers are rushing to use them tells us you're wrong. The fact that Monsanto is so successful with selling their products tells you the people who really matter know what's in their best interest. They'll continue using the seeds that allow them to generate the yields that make farming a profitable business. That fact will, no doubt, sadden Luddites everywhere.