Compare to how many Ukrainian farmers Stalin starved.
Same goal, slightly different M.O.
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http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h875ih.txt.pdf
.pdf file of S 425:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s425is.txt.pdf
I’m confused, who is Monsanto? This article makes me feel like I walked into the middle of conversation and I’m supposed to know everything that has been said up until that point.
Can someone please help this poor ole ignorant gal out?
Monsanto is a HUGE monopoly. Thier research has been profitable in production but extremely costly in planting. Farmers used to routinely catch seed from their own crop for PART of the next year’s planting but it is illegal for GM seed to be caught. So using their seed is a dead end, one time use activity. I could go on. AT some point, it seems that these seeds would be treated like generic medicine.
Also, this is one big expense justifying crop subsidies.
I’ve heard this from various sources. It is virtually impossible now to procure natural corn seed as all of the seed stocks have been genetically modified. As if this isn’t bad enough, who knows how the food chains are interrupted by the genetic manipulation of animal feedstocks.
Do we trust the better living through the modern chemistry of Dupont or Monsanto, (makers of napalm and Agent Orange for peace on earth, goodwill towards man?)
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/monsantopropaganda723.cfm
Monsanto is not the most cuddly company around. Their manipulation of Washington in support of their rBST hormone for increasing milk production is another case in point.
Check out their web-site. It’s marketing central for nutritional stuff.
My father in law has built a lot of equipment for Monsanto over the years. Coincidentally, my company has built a little bit for them. They are a good customer.
Like you, I don’t know what to make of it.
They learned from big pharma (NPI). Get a patent, run it for all it’s worth, tweak it when it’s time is about out, run some more. Farmers simply can’t afford to counter-sue for the contamination.
It’s a stealth attempt to control the food supply by restricting access to the seeds.
If they own the patents for the hybred seeds and influence, or pay off, legislators to pass laws that restrict or forbid planting of heirloom variety seeds, then Monsanto and other agricorporations can control food production.
Think using food as a political weapon ! It is being done today in Africa.
My starting suspicion is that the author is mainly opposed to genetically modified foods but I’m open to evidence.
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written Monsanto seed laws and gotten legislators to put them through, that make cleaning, collecting and storing of seeds so onerous in terms of fees and paperwork and testing and tracking every variety and being subject to fines, that having normal seed becomes almost impossible (an NAIS approach to wiping out normal seeds). Does your state have such a seed law? Before they existed, farmers just collected the seeds and put them in sacks in the shed and used them the next year, sharing whatever they wished with friends and neighbors, selling some if they wanted. That’s been killed.
In Illinois, which has such a seed law, Madigan, the Speaker of the House, his staff is Monsanto lobbyists.
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the democrat party is a shell game.
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It’s a stealth attempt to control the food supply by restricting access to the seeds.
If they own the patents for the hybred seeds and influence, or pay off, legislators to pass laws that restrict or forbid planting of heirloom variety seeds, then Monsanto and other agricorporations can control food production.
It is so important to encourage and support the small family farms, so that food production will not be totally controlled by international agricorporations.
Think using food as a political weapon ! It is being done today in Africa.
It’s a stealth attempt to control the food supply by restricting access to the seeds.
If they own the patents for the hybred seeds and influence, or pay off, legislators to pass laws that restrict or forbid planting of heirloom variety seeds, then Monsanto and other agricorporations can control food production.
It is so important to encourage and support the small family farms, and maintain access to heirloom variety seeds, so that food production will not be totally controlled by international agricorporations.
Think using food as a political weapon ! It is being done today in Africa.
It’s a stealth attempt to control the food supply by restricting access to the seeds.
If they own the patents for the hybred seeds and influence, or pay off, legislators to pass laws that restrict or forbid planting of heirloom variety seeds, then Monsanto and other agricorporations can control food production.
It is so important to encourage and support the small family farms, and maintain access to heirloom variety seeds, so that food production will not be totally controlled by international agricorporations.
Think using food as a political weapon ! It is being done today in Africa.
Note: I am posting this for information only. I have no association with the company and it is not and endorsement or a solicitation to purchase their products.