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Posted on 05/13/2013 11:00:31 AM PDT by blam
Edited on 05/13/2013 11:01:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto Monday over an Indiana farmer accused of having pirated the genetically-modified crops developed by the agribusiness giant.
The high court was unanimous in its decision, ruling that laws limiting patents do "not permit a farmer to reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holder's permission."
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Monsanto now effectively controls food supply, because once their GMO POS seeds destroy all others, we will be dependent on their junk science to feed us, and there’s no conclusive data that GMOs are safe for human consumption.
One of the most evil corporations on Earth.
Control the production of food
Control the distribution of food
Control everything
Should there be an exception for old farmers?
Yep. There’s alot of FReepers though that don’t get this. Sad.
Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto lawyer and he did not recuse himself.
” there’s no conclusive data that GMOs are safe for human consumption.”
Correct
Is there conclusive data that they are UN-safe?
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It’s time someone patents a plant that cross pollinates with Monsanto’s patented crops like bunnies, then plant it around every Monsanto field in America then wait a season or two and then claim all of Monsanto’s crops are theirs!
From reading the actual court case it is pretty obvious that Bowman was in the wrong. If he did want to pay Monsanto to use their seeds, he should not have used their seeds.
I am fascinated by people who do not get that concept, it is so simple.
Even Micki Obama’s changing or school lunches and the taxpayer funded “move it” videos, falls right in line with the concept.
If I control the production of food
If I control the distribution of food
I control everything
I think the farmer was clearly in the right.
Man...beat me to it.
QUICK!!
Somebody Patent the Liberal gene!!!
May be only way to control the spread of this DEFECT!!!
However, the soy in question in not technically genetically modified (GMO). No gene splicing was done. The plants are grown in a lab environment and simply selected for many generations for resistance to herbicides.
This is similar to how early humans changed many of the plants we use today. For example, corn was originally only a few inches long and not very tasty. Humans kept selecting the seeds from the largest, most tasty corn to plant for the next generation. Over time corn was developed into what we see today.
I don't agree with this "resistance" type of breeding because it encourages herbicide overuse. However, I do believe plant breeders should be somehow protected from outright commercial piracy since they invest millions into development. Without protection, someone will simply steal their work and undercut them each time. If the court allowed this, the plant breeding industry would be dead: “Buy perfect copies of Monsanto's super seeds here. Half price.”
Bravo to you but as for me I would run from these foam-mouthed botanist wanna-bees.
GMO soybean seeds don’t “destroy all others”. Soybeans don’t cross pollinate, which is why it’s so easy for Monsanto to prove when its seed stock has been pirated.
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