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BREAKING: Monsanto Slapped With A $7.7 Billion Lawsuit By 5 Million Farmers!!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 34752337:MV8yMTQ2NDc1XzM2MjYzMDc0Xzg0MTBFQzJC] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1278561:MV8yMTQ2NDc1XzM2MjYyOTM1XzIwMTY0NTUz] [quote:Anonymous Coward 8943526:MV8yMTQ2NDc1XzM2MjYyODUxXzcwRTM0Q0ZC] YOU DONT OWN THE SEEDS YOU FUCKING CUNTZ MONSANTO [/quote] You are incorrect. Monsanto has a patient for their modified seeds they sell. The seeds give a farmer more bushels per acre. Farmers sign a contract that they will not gather seeds to replant. Farmers break the contract and become thieves. [/quote] Well, maybe monsanto should have never been allowed to patent seeds. No one has a right to do that and given that, they are ruining our food supply. No descent, right thinking nation will allow them into their country or their crops. Wake up idiot Americans. Wake the hell up! [/quote]
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Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the ones that led certain farming regions to be known as the ‘suicide belt’, Monsanto has been reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous royalty charges. The farmers state that Monsanto has been unfairly gathering exorbitant profits each year on a global scale from “renewal” seed harvests, which are crops planted using seed from the previous year’s harvest.
The practice of using renewal seeds dates back to ancient times, but Monsanto seeks to collect massive royalties and put an end to the practice. Why? Because Monsanto owns the very patent to the genetically modified seed, and is charging the farmers not only for the original crops, but the later harvests as well. Eventually, the royalties compound and many farmers begin to struggle with even keeping their farm afloat. It is for this reason that India slammed Monsanto with groundbreaking ‘bio-piracy’ charges in an effort to stop Monsanto from ‘patenting life’.
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