Tech Heist: Seeds of Deceit (Chinese try to steal experimental GMO corn seed)

agweb ^ | JANUARY 25, 2014 | Farm Journal Editors

[dennisw]

1. U.S. Charges Chinese Man With Conspiracy to Steal ... - Bloomberg

   www.bloomberg.com/.../u-s-charges-chinese-man-with-c...‎

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   Bloomberg L.P.

   Dec 14, 2013 - Mo Hailong, who drove through the Midwest in a rental car and visited farms ... Mo conspired with others “to steal the intellectual property of the  ...

2. Designer Seed Thought to Be Latest Target by Chinese - NYTimes ...

   www.nytimes.com/.../chinese-implicated-in-agricultur...

   The New York Times

   Feb 4, 2014 - When confronted, the man, Mo Hailong, who was with his colleague Wang Lei, appeared flushed. Mr. Mo told the manager that he worked for  ...

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3. Images for Mo Hailong

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4. Chinese man charged in seed thefts pleads innocent : News ...

   www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=1001814‎

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   KTVO

   Feb 1, 2014 - Mo Hailong, also known as Robert Mo, appeared Thursday before Magistrate Judge Ross Walters. He entered a plea of not guilty to one count  ...

5. 6 Chinese nationals charged in Iowa corn seed theft | TheGazette

   thegazette.com/.../6-chinese-nationals-charged-in-iowa-corn-...‎

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   The Gazette

   Dec 19, 2013 - Mo Hailong, Li Shaoming, Wang Lei, Wang Hongwei, Ye Jian and Lin Yong each have been indicted on conspiring to steal trade secrets from  ...

6. Call the FBI! China Is Trying To Steal America's Seeds! : The Salt ...

   www.npr.org/.../call-the-fbi-china-is-trying-to-steal-americas-seeds

   NPR

   Dec 13, 2013 - The car had been rented to a man named Mo Hailong. The FBI says Mo, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. who lives in Florida, works for  ...

[Kackikat]

China wants our Genetically Modified Corn Seeds from Monsanto? LOL...the wheat is not fit to eat, so I say let them have the GM corn seeds, they will all be as fat as Americans with the same diseases.

Now, if it were heirloom seeds that are pure and safe, it would be a tragedy, and we should put them in prison.

[knarf]

and moose is in china ...

[dennisw]

The Chinese do not eat much corn. This is for animal feed type corn

[Sacajaweau]

A friend of mine worked at "X". They had Chinese visit the plant. My friend said they were there for one reason....to steal anything they could.

They made them put on long lab coats...very unnecessary but there was a security function to them.

[gaijin]

What I’m going to say isn’t going to be popular:

I’m honestly HAPPY this happened to DuPont, and I almost wish the damage had been higher.

If you’re an American with robust BioChem skills and it appears likely that you’ll ask for reasonable pay, it’s very likely it will prove hard for you to get a job:

Companies prefer researchers who’ll settle for long hours, low-pay and must come over to the USA on visas permitting work at THAT SPECIFIC company, and no other —this gives the company an exotically high level of control over him/her.

It’s almost a form of indentured servitude, and for each such position it means a normal American will NOT have a job.

American companies hire such people —people from the very most piracy-prone country on Earth— and then they’re shocked —SHOCKED!— that they end-up ripped-off by them.

The cases most shocking are in sensitive defense tech outfits —they make the dodgiest hires for super sensitive stuff and then YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS...!

What this really is is US taxpayers and consumers SUBSIDIZING China.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

http://www.agweb.com/article/seeds_of_deceit_NAA_Farm_Journal_Editors/

[mountainlion]

The Chinese have already been given the farm by Clinton. I suspect Obama will do the same. After NSA there will be few secrets which will increase competition and our corporations will have to work for their money not make up secret Frankenfood.

[Dick Bachert]

Hell, I say LET ‘EM HAVE ‘EM. Perhaps they’ll grow gills and flippers and wriggle to the sea, solving a number of problems for the West.

[G Larry]

Before you concern yourself with all of the ills of GMOs, you might first consider that their primary concern is yield per acre and number of people fed.

The anti-GMO crowd are wittingly or not, playing into the population control crowd’s game of suppressing global food supply.

[dennisw]

lol!!!!!!!`

[goodwithagun]

Unfortunately there are people still starving. The solution to ending world hunger is not GMOs, it’s eliminating aid to the tyrants who starve their subjects and use our aid money for personal gain. When the subjects can’t take it anymore they can rise up 1776 style and make themselves citizens. Citizens with full bellies. In the mean time, I will continue to grow my own heirlooms. There’s something a bit frightening about people trying to eliminate my food supply.

[Farmer Dean]

That's it exactly.Last season we planted GMO corn,had a poor growing season-and still got an average yield of 217 bu/acre.With regular hybrids I doubt we would have gotten 150/acre.

[Balding_Eagle]

Hell, I say LET ‘EM HAVE ‘EM. Perhaps they’ll grow gills and flippers and wriggle to the sea, solving a number of problems for the West.

GMO has been around for 20 years.

Like monkeys in a cage, Luddites like to mock and scream about GMO seeds, but they have nothing to offer as an alternative.

A special food category has been set up for Luddites, providing them with abroad range of food that fit their desires. But as with the homosexuals, they are not content to eat those foods and leave everyone else alone, they are so insecure in their beliefs that they must pass laws imposing their beliefs on everyone.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The FBI is Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to protecting the interests of the big-government/big-corporate crony-fascist complex.

[Balding_Eagle]

I will continue to grow my own heirlooms. There’s something a bit frightening about people trying to eliminate my food supply.

There is a huge and growing market for your foods.

[Valpal1]

Commercially grown wheat is not GMO, so your statement lacks logic. Using lab techniques to identify useful or harmful heritable traits and then incorporate or delete them is an excellent use of science in agriculture and hardly the doomsday herald the interwebs claim it to be.

I predict the first commercially successful GMO wheat will be a variety that lacks the specific proteins involved in celiac disease and gluten intolerance.

Monsanto will also patent a pesticide resistant GMO honeybee.

I further predict that the “epidemic” of wheat allergy/gluten intolerance may eventually be recognized as an autoimmune reaction to similar proteins caused by Lymes infection.

[dhs12345]

Hey, if you can’t invent it, steal it.

[FatherofFive]

China wants our Genetically Modified Corn Seeds from Monsanto? LOL...the wheat is not fit to eat, so I say let them have the GM corn seeds

I don't eat corn or soy anymore. Tyring to eliminate grains altogether.