Farmfresh
City Biddy
No now days you get sued for silly stuff like that.
Rising Food Prices May Start With Seeds
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freemotion
Food Guru
You must see Food, Inc. It is shocking...especially the part about why farmers CANNOT save seed. Monsatan made sure that it is now impossible by going after the ones who clean the seed so it can be planted and putting them out of business.Bettacreek said:
Also, see my previous post about my dad's neighbors and Monsatan's lawsuits.
rebecca100
Almost Self-Reliant
Wow. this is a real eye opener. I know nothing of farming commercially, but I can see how saving seed wouldn't be allowed, just like you can't propagate patened, say, grapes. Another reason to grow you own. Just a thought, but do you guys remember the contraceptive corn? What could a company like that do to the general public who eats their food(not necessarily contraceptives) without the farmers even knowing? Hmmmm........
freemotion
Food Guru
Contraceptive corn????
rebecca100
Almost Self-Reliant
I think I read about the contraceptive corn here. I know I read about it somewhere.
rebecca100
Almost Self-Reliant
here it is
http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2144
hmmmm........also about Monsanto
Here is another article about it
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/053005-2009-07-07-contraceptive-corn.htm
My point is if they can do that then what else are they capable of?
http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2144
hmmmm........also about Monsanto
Here is another article about it
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/053005-2009-07-07-contraceptive-corn.htm
My point is if they can do that then what else are they capable of?
Farmfresh
City Biddy
The whole goal is to control ALL food produced from seed to market. No big deal. (sarcasm)
Wifezilla
Low-Carb Queen - RIP: 1963-2021
Exactly.
"Even as the company is pushing its G.M. agenda, Monsanto is buying up conventional-seed companies. In 2005, Monsanto paid $1.4 billion for Seminis, which controlled 40 percent of the U.S. market for lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetable and fruit seeds. Two weeks later it announced the acquisition of the countrys third-largest cottonseed company, Emergent Genetics, for $300 million. Its estimated that Monsanto seeds now account for 90 percent of the U.S. production of soybeans, which are used in food products beyond counting. Monsantos acquisitions have fueled explosive growth, transforming the St. Louisbased corporation into the largest seed company in the world.
In Iraq, the groundwork has been laid to protect the patents of Monsanto and other G.M.-seed companies. One of L. Paul Bremers last acts as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority was an order stipulating that farmers shall be prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties. Monsanto has said that it has no interest in doing business in Iraq, but should the company change its mind, the American-style law is in place.
To be sure, more and more agricultural corporations and individual farmers are using Monsantos G.M. seeds. As recently as 1980, no genetically modified crops were grown in the U.S. In 2007, the total was 142 million acres planted. Worldwide, the figure was 282 million acres. Many farmers believe that G.M. seeds increase crop yields and save money. Another reason for their attraction is convenience. By using Roundup Ready soybean seeds, a farmer can spend less time tending to his fields. With Monsanto seeds, a farmer plants his crop, then treats it later with Roundup to kill weeds. That takes the place of labor-intensive weed control and plowing.
Monsanto portrays its move into G.M. seeds as a giant leap for mankind. But out in the American countryside, Monsantos no-holds-barred tactics have made it feared and loathed. Like it or not, farmers say, they have fewer and fewer choices in buying seeds.
And controlling the seeds is not some abstraction. Whoever provides the worlds seeds controls the worlds food supply."
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805
"Even as the company is pushing its G.M. agenda, Monsanto is buying up conventional-seed companies. In 2005, Monsanto paid $1.4 billion for Seminis, which controlled 40 percent of the U.S. market for lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetable and fruit seeds. Two weeks later it announced the acquisition of the countrys third-largest cottonseed company, Emergent Genetics, for $300 million. Its estimated that Monsanto seeds now account for 90 percent of the U.S. production of soybeans, which are used in food products beyond counting. Monsantos acquisitions have fueled explosive growth, transforming the St. Louisbased corporation into the largest seed company in the world.
In Iraq, the groundwork has been laid to protect the patents of Monsanto and other G.M.-seed companies. One of L. Paul Bremers last acts as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority was an order stipulating that farmers shall be prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties. Monsanto has said that it has no interest in doing business in Iraq, but should the company change its mind, the American-style law is in place.
To be sure, more and more agricultural corporations and individual farmers are using Monsantos G.M. seeds. As recently as 1980, no genetically modified crops were grown in the U.S. In 2007, the total was 142 million acres planted. Worldwide, the figure was 282 million acres. Many farmers believe that G.M. seeds increase crop yields and save money. Another reason for their attraction is convenience. By using Roundup Ready soybean seeds, a farmer can spend less time tending to his fields. With Monsanto seeds, a farmer plants his crop, then treats it later with Roundup to kill weeds. That takes the place of labor-intensive weed control and plowing.
Monsanto portrays its move into G.M. seeds as a giant leap for mankind. But out in the American countryside, Monsantos no-holds-barred tactics have made it feared and loathed. Like it or not, farmers say, they have fewer and fewer choices in buying seeds.
And controlling the seeds is not some abstraction. Whoever provides the worlds seeds controls the worlds food supply."
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805
patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
Most field crops have not used open-pollinated varieties for, jeez, I dunno, decades and decades and decades. You can get better yields from hybrids, and you can't (usefully) save hybrid seed. Also most farmers don't have the facilities to clean their seed (of weed seeds) and modern yield requirements require fairly clean seed.Bettacreek said:
Pat
patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
That is a good way of putting it. I guess technically it isn't organized "crime" since it is perfectly legal, but in SPIRIT it certainly is!On Our own said:
(although, from the big ag company perspective, they are just doing what is best for their stockholders, same as any other company -- they just happen to have much stronger leverage to do horrible damage to the world than, say, Joe's Shoe Factory does)
Pat
