Posted on 03/07/2009 10:39:24 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
You called me a lot of names (a typical leftie technique by the way) and even when you were wrong, you come back and called me a zealot. And you are not a zealot? I stated I have no connections with Monsanto, nor any interest in them. I asked you a couple of questions, although I am not sure I will get a honest answer. Are you a supporter of organic food and/or anti-GM food?
Cost of seeding one acre of Monsanto corn = $31.00 (37,000 seeds)
Average yield of 150 bushels/acre = $450.00 at 3.00/Bushel
Cost is not the issue. Anti GM politics is.
A lot of names? I said you were a zealot which was an observation not a pejorative. The substance of every single one of your posts is to associate every claim against Monsanto with Green Peace. Character assassination. So don't tell me about lefty techniques.
Are you a supporter of organic food and/or anti-GM food?
Nope. I rarely eat anything but meat. I never buy organic anything because I consider it a waste of money. I do like organic gardening though. I am also an herbalist and have been for about 19 years so I am familiar with Monsanto's legal and legislative efforts to control agriculture and seed distribution. Also their efforts to use government to spread herbicides and pesticides on government lands for profit.
I saw no place where you showed me to be wrong about anything. I did see where you completely ignored the information I passed your way.
The issue is freedom.
The issue is being allowed to grow a crop that hasn't been contaminated by Monsanto's proprietary genes so you don't owe them a royalty, if that's the route you choose to go.
Their goal is to disallow that.
Isn't it just Greenpeace, it is the whole Green movement, including Friends (Fiends) of Earth that it trying to kill Mosanto and BASF and anyone else who tries to produce GM seeds.
I am just amazed how good Greenpeace's propaganda machine is and, if people like you, believe that this is grass roots movement by the farmers, then they can convince a lot of people.
The good news is that Greenpeace has been mostly failing. GM crops are now being used all over the world to dramatically increase food production, and by far, most farmers realize the benefits and how much safer (dramatic reduction of pesticides) the use of hybrid and GM seeds bring to their farms.
Ping to #33.
Take it up with the moderators.
Your unsubstantiated accusations don't add up to much. Except zealous bigotry.
get your heirloom seeds from rareseeds.com
Just got an order from them yesterday.
Faremrs are definitely thinking money. The last thing they want to do is to have to share their crop to a Genetic seed company because that seed company cross pollinated their crop with the neighbors crop that just didn’t happen to be that seed strain.
So the seed company claims the farmer is stealing their patent that they own the rights to exclusively.
And they use that as an excuse to steal crops that aren’t theirs from people who don’t buy their seed.
There should be no rights to cross pollination because it is a natural process. The seed companies claim otherwise.
In Missouri, Budweiser sued some farmers because their hops might have been cross pollinated by other varieties.
Just a thought here. Maybe the genetically altered crops are what is killing the honey bees?
One has to believe there are consequences out there somewhere.
My Grandfather worked as a chemist there 30+ years and insists they were going downhill when he left and are not the same company.
You are being used (unless you really are a Greenpeace lover). If anyone does any honest research on both how Greenpeace uses a small number of farmers (and organic crop growers) in their propaganda efforts and into the science of just how little chance there is of crop contamination and all the controls that farmers must put into place. Instead, you post links to leftists and anti-GM sites and believe people who have been convicted of stealing. I just don't understand how real conservatives can fall into this trap.
There is no doubt. When you go messing with Mother Nature, you are messing with a delicate thread.
I want to know where all the don’t kill the polar bear crowds are?
The same freaks that regularly protest the WTO/IMF have been on this story for years....and usually getting lambasted for it.
It's too bad your contract with Monsanto doesn't allow that.
So Monsanto doesn't hire private detective to trespass on farms and test crops for their "proprietary" gene?
If the Nelson's stole patented seeds, then they didn't need to be sued, they should have been just charged with theft. All that they could accomplish would to be to get that one year's worth of crop from them because they couldn't save seed to grow from HYBRIDS.
And what, exactly, is the point of stealing HYBRIDIZED seeds that are sterile and can only produce one years crop, aside from getting that crop? Since hybrid seeds are sterile, there's no benefit to *stealing* the technology because nobody can get it to reproduce. It's a waste of time and money and not worth the risk.
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