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To: dirtboy
This has happened all over the United States. The main point that Monsanto is trying to do is put any competition out of business. If a farmer has any GM in his neighboring field he cannot sell that crop without paying Monsanto for the GM that blew into his field as pollen. If he is a seed producer he is out of business and Monsanto wins. Monsanto has a noncompetitive hold on all GM crops and with cross-pollination hardly none has escaped being GM corn now.

This has hurt our export markets around the world and broke many farmers here because of their inability to sell their crops. Our patent rights are in chaos now because of the laws that have been passed by a compliant Congress relying on corporate campaign contributions.

4 posted on 11/11/2003 11:05:38 AM PST by meenie
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To: meenie
This has hurt our export markets around the world and broke many farmers here because of their inability to sell their crops.

I think that farmers should strike back with a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto for failing to control the release of their patented genes into the wild. Sometimes the only way to fight absurdity is with absurdity.

5 posted on 11/11/2003 11:11:37 AM PST by dirtboy (New Ben and Jerry's flavor - Howard Dean Swirl - no ice cream, just fruit at bottom)
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