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By: American Street » Blog Archive » “We would never trust a company like Monsanto to tell the truth”

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:40:52 +0000

[…] Bryan of Why Now? mentions Monsanto’s control of seeds. […]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:15:57 +0000

I don’t like herbicides. Agent Orange was a herbicide, which people forget. Roundup is worse. I deal with grass in sidewalk cracks with salt. It occurs naturally, and it doesn’t take a lot to do the job. If a cat tracks it and licks their paw you don’t get vet bills.

This GM crap is spreading and forcing monoculture when farmers don’t really want it. To get their seed they seem to have made their new genes dominant which isn’t good. If they were recessive, they could ensure their patents from accidental pollination.

They are playing with things they don’t really understand.

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:42:57 +0000

Monsanto may be the worst of the worst big agricultural companies. ADM and Cargill have a lot of skeletons on the lawn but the sins of Monsanto will echo across the globe for centuries. We may never be able to undo the damage to the ecology of the planet that their gene modified crops have caused. It is estimated that some 80% of the soy beans harvested on the planet are either directly Monsanto franken beans or infected with the Roundup genes.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:33:53 +0000

Just what the developing world needs, having to come up with hard currency for seed money every year. Most of the crops aren’t even eaten in many regions, or are considered animal feed.

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:52:39 +0000

Yeah, and the US was trying to force this bit of agribusiness in Iraq, too.