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Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
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**Scor~Pios** 
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5/9/2008 2:08 PM
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Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele May 2008 No thanks: An anti-Monsanto crop circle made by farmers and volunteers in the Philippines. By Melvyn Calderon/Greenpeace HO/A.P. Images.
Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his “old-time country store,” as he calls it, on the fading town square of Eagleville, Missouri, a tiny farm community 100 miles north of Kansas City.
The Square Deal is a fixture in Eagleville, a place where farmers and townspeople can go for lightbulbs, greeting cards, hunting gear, ice cream, aspirin, and dozens of other small items without having to drive to a big-box store in Bethany, the county seat, 15 miles down Interstate 35.
Everyone knows Rinehart, who was born and raised in the area and runs one of Eagleville’s few surviving businesses. The stranger came up to the counter and asked for him by name.
“Well, that’s me,” said Rinehart.
As Rinehart would recall, the man began verbally attacking him, saying he had proof that Rinehart had planted Monsanto’s genetically modified (G.M.) soybeans in violation of the company’s patent. Better come clean and settle with Monsanto, Rinehart says the man told him—or face the consequences.
Rinehart was incredulous, listening to the words as puzzled customers and employees looked on. Like many others in rural America, Rinehart knew of Monsanto’s fierce reputation for enforcing its patents and suing anyone who allegedly violated them. But Rinehart wasn’t a farmer. He wasn’t a seed dealer. He hadn’t planted any seeds or sold any seeds. He owned a small—a really small—country store in a town of 350 people. He was angry that somebody could just barge into the store and embarrass him in front of everyone. “It made me and my business look bad,” he says. Rinehart says he told the intruder, “You got the wrong guy.”
When the stranger persisted, Rinehart showed him the door. On the way out the man kept making threats. Rinehart says he can’t remember the exact words, but they were to the effect of: “Monsanto is big. You can’t win. We will get you. You will pay.”
Scenes like this are playing out in many parts of rural America these days as Monsanto goes after farmers, farmers’ co-ops, seed dealers—anyone it suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds. As interviews and reams of court documents reveal, Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents in the American heartland to strike fear into farm country. They fan out into fields and farm towns, where they secretly videotape and photograph farmers, store owners, and co-ops; infiltrate community meetings; and gather information from informants about farming activities. Farmers say that some Monsanto agents pretend to be surveyors. Others confront farmers on their land and try to pressure them to sign papers giving Monsanto access to their private records. Farmers call them the “seed police” and use words such as “Gestapo” and “Mafia” to describe their tactics.
When asked about these practices, Monsanto declined to comment specifically, other than to say that the company is simply protecting its patents. “Monsanto spends more than $2 million a day in research to identify, test, develop and bring to market innovative new seeds and technologies that benefit farmers,” Monsanto spokesman Darren Wallis wrote in an e-mailed letter to Vanity Fair. “One tool in protecting this investment is patenting our discoveries and, if necessary, legally defending those patents against those who might choose to infringe upon them.” Wallis said that, while the vast majority of farmers and seed dealers follow the licensing agreements, “a tiny fraction” do not, and that Monsanto is obligated to those who do abide by its rules to enforce its patent rights on those who “reap the benefits of the technology without paying for its use.” He said only a small number of cases ever go to trial.
Some compare Monsanto’s hard-line approach to Microsoft’s zealous efforts to protect its software from pirates. At least with Microsoft the buyer of a program can use it over and over again. But farmers who buy Monsanto’s seeds can’t even do that.
The Control of Nature
For centuries—millennia—farmers have saved seeds from season to season: they planted in the spring, harvested in the fall, then reclaimed and cleaned the seeds over the winter for re-planting the next spring. Monsanto has turned this ancient practice on its head.
Monsanto developed G.M. seeds that would resist its own herbicide, Roundup, offering farmers a convenient way to spray fields with weed killer without affecting crops. Monsanto then patented the seeds. For nearly all of its history the United States Patent and Trademark Office had refused to grant patents on seeds, viewing them as life-forms with too many variables to be patented. “It’s not like describing a widget,” says Joseph Mendelson III, the legal director of the Center for Food Safety, which has tracked Monsanto’s activities in rural America for years.
Indeed not. But in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court, in a five-to-four decision, turned seeds into widgets, laying the groundwork for a handful of corporations to begin taking control of the world’s food supply. In its decision, the court extended patent law to cover “a live human-made microorganism.” In this case, the organism wasn’t even a seed. Rather, it was a Pseudomonas bacterium developed by a General Electric scientist to clean up oil spills. But the precedent was set, and Monsanto took advantage of it. Since the 1980s, Monsanto has become the world leader in genetic modification of seeds and has won 674 biotechnology patents, more than any other company, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
Farmers who buy Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready seeds are required to sign an agreement promising not to save the seed produced after each harvest for re-planting, or to sell the seed to other farmers. This means that farmers must buy new seed every year. Those increased sales, coupled with ballooning sales of its Roundup weed killer, have been a bonanza for Monsanto.
This radical departure from age-old practice has created turmoil in farm country. Some farmers don’t fully understand that they aren’t supposed to save Monsanto’s seeds for next year’s planting. Others do, but ignore the stipulation rather than throw away a perfectly usable product. Still others say that they don’t use Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds, but seeds have been blown into their fields by wind or deposited by birds. It’s certainly easy for G.M. seeds to get mixed in with traditional varieties when seeds are cleaned by commercial dealers for re-planting. The seeds look identical; only a laboratory analysis can show the difference. Even if a farmer doesn’t buy G.M. seeds and doesn’t want them on his land, it’s a safe bet he’ll get a visit from Monsanto’s seed police if crops grown from G.M. seeds are discovered in his fields.
Most Americans know Monsanto because of what it sells to put on our lawns— the ubiquitous weed killer Roundup. What they may not know is that the company now profoundly influences—and one day may virtually control—what we put on our tables. For most of its history Monsanto was a chemical giant, producing some of the most toxic substances ever created, residues from which have left us with some of the most polluted sites on earth. Yet in a little more than a decade, the company has sought to shed its polluted past and morph into something much different and more far-reaching—an “agricultural company” dedicated to making the world “a better place for future generations.” Still, more than one Web log claims to see similarities between Monsanto and the fictional company “U-North” in the movie Michael Clayton, an agribusiness giant accused in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit of selling an herbicide that causes cancer.
six more pages in link....
[link to www.vanityfair.com]
Scor~Pios -AKA- Pit Viper
'When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.'
Thomas Jefferson
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams |
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malu
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5/9/2008 2:17 PM
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i can't even begin to tell you how much i hate monsanto
the kicker was in Iraq, where in the cradle of civilization, they have made it illegal for the farmers to save seeds, a practice which is thousands of years old
Monsanto is more dangerous than the Military Industrial Complex |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/9/2008 2:36 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
Monsanto is all about "control" |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/9/2008 2:45 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
i can't even begin to tell you how much i hate monsanto
the kicker was in Iraq, where in the cradle of civilization, they have made it illegal for the farmers to save seeds, a practice which is thousands of years old
Monsanto is more dangerous than the Military Industrial Complex Quoting: malu
Very disturbing. Hope they get what's coming to them...soon! |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/9/2008 3:01 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
MOHNSANHTO!!!!!
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Anonymous Coward
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5/9/2008 3:02 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
MONSATNO vs.  |
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SHR 
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5/9/2008 3:03 PM
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Hey free markets people, you don't want any trade resrtictions or restrictions on freedom right? This is this corporations freedom to conduct business however it pleases them, if you don't like how they do it? buy yer seeds from someone else....ooops, nobody else? welp tough crap then ya gotta follow their rules however they make em then if you want to guy their products.
Woo hoo! Ain't freedom great?!
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"oannes"
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5/9/2008 3:13 PM
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GraftedPromise U$ofA
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5/9/2008 3:13 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
We have a subscription to The Country Today, a weekly newspaper that deals with agricultural issues.
They had a front page article that said Wal-Mart was going to have its milk come from hormone-free cows from now on because the customers wanted hormone-free milk. |
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Intimosis
User ID: 403814
5/9/2008 3:13 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
[link to www.seedsofchangefilm.org]
Monsanto is a bully that has helped create laws that allow them to pollute on farmer's land (genetic contamination) and then sue them for theft (patent infringement). Its a scam. This is not free or fair market behaviour. In Canada, they hire ex-RCMP officers to harrass and spy on farmers they suspect of infringement.
They really do have to lighten up and be nicer people. |
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Intimosis
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5/9/2008 3:13 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
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5/9/2008 3:23 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
We have a subscription to The Country Today, a weekly newspaper that deals with agricultural issues.
They had a front page article that said Wal-Mart was going to have its milk come from hormone-free cows from now on because the customers wanted hormone-free milk. Quoting: GraftedPromise U$ofA 430360
WAL-MART?!? Don't jive us Grafted.
I just wonder what else is up their sleeves. Bet it'll be irradiated milk or the cows will be fed genetically-modified grain.
Please give us a link to the article if possible. Thx. |
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**Scor~Pios**
Thought Criminal
User ID: 426929
5/9/2008 3:28 PM
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They really creep me out. Totally EVIL. Why arent they listed as part of the axis of evil?
Scor~Pios -AKA- Pit Viper
'When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.'
Thomas Jefferson
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams |
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"oannes"
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5/9/2008 3:29 PM
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 387677
5/9/2008 3:30 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
The Biohazard symbol is being used to subconsciously program young generations to accept genetic modification. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 387677
5/9/2008 3:32 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
i can't even begin to tell you how much i hate monsanto
the kicker was in Iraq, where in the cradle of civilization, they have made it illegal for the farmers to save seeds, a practice which is thousands of years old
Monsanto is more dangerous than the Military Industrial Complex Quoting: malu
Monsanto IS the Military Industrial Complex |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430466
5/9/2008 3:35 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
[ link to www.seedsofchangefilm.org]
Monsanto is a bully that has helped create laws that allow them to pollute on farmer's land (genetic contamination) and then sue them for theft (patent infringement). Its a scam. This is not free or fair market behaviour. In Canada, they hire ex-RCMP officers to harrass and spy on farmers they suspect of infringement.
They really do have to lighten up and be nicer people.
It's time to start grass-root farmer organizations to meet head-on with these trespassers...start raising money to hire the best attorneys & and become as powerful as NRA (which has protected the U.S. Right to Bear Arms amendment all these years).
If we all go so radical as in the causes that GreenPeace supports, then we are breaking the established laws and that's what TPTB want. Better to out-wit & out-maneuver them by tying them up in court for years & years.
They can't continue to support paying attorney's bills in all 50 states but for so long. That will stop the harrassment.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 387677
5/9/2008 3:35 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
I'll bet Monsanto monitors the internet, they have "schills" even cruising sites like GLP, that's just how they are.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430466
5/9/2008 3:40 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
I'll bet Monsanto monitors the internet, they have "schills" even cruising sites like GLP, that's just how they are.
Be afraid, Monsanto. Be very afraid. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 287857
5/9/2008 3:50 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
phuck MonSATANo
PHUCK THEM
Buy heirloom seeds only-as Monsanto has been buying up heirloom seed companies for at least 3-4 decades that I have followed them and their nefarious plans seem obvious
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds rareseeds.com 417-924-8917
great company and great products
all heirloom and NO monsanto at all or any monsanto funding
Pesticides, poisons, and foods explains why so many are so unhealthy and morbidly obese
Johnny's selected seed with over 230 organic varieties available too 1-877-johnnys johnnyseeds.com
fun factoids
Clarence Thomas of the supreme court use to be Monsantos attorney
They slipped it by many with their "general equivalency" law-that is how they avoided many future lawsuits-and now they act like brownshirts
check for yourselves
If monsanto had been truly looking out for our food supplies they could of easily grown their FRANKENFOODS like human DNA rice(KS) in a CONTAINED ENVIRONMENT and AVOIDED CONTAMINATING all seed. Instead, they have colluded with other multinationals to gain COMPLETE CONTROL via food and water, and energy if one can get the food and water.
All MAIZE in mexico is now contaminated with GMO chit.
Argentina had to go with the program and monsantos roundup ready(Spliced into the plants DNA)seeds. They did not want monSATANo in their country-oddly their crops were repeatedly sabotaged(they avoided this word for fear of reprisals)and GMO(genetically modified organisms) was found all over and started blighting their native plants-amazing, now they get GMO monsatano crap every yr like clockwork...they are trapped now with this crap-it wipes out native easy growing stuff and puts sterile plants with herbicide in them...that need fertilizer and need herbicide
In the old days, plants in general were promoted that were native and could tolerate weather conditions or various extremes Now...most are illegal, or cannot be found-wiped out-literally-except in the Monsatan-gates seed storage facility-wonder if they have the 1/3 of bees that have been wiped out too???
Or the butterflies
or the bats???
Frankenfoods are death-liver and kidney failure-calling it intuitive insight...or hysteria if you are sure I am wrong
time will tell I told the truth
time will show monsatano to be wholly malignant imho
watch and see
STERILE
TERMINATOR seeds
killing any others in the field like a plant that is a parasite of sorts-or like Kudzu
so then all bio-diversity is lost except for monsanto and dupont and pioneer foods...etc |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 287857
5/9/2008 3:54 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
Druker´s Anti-Biotech Themes
Druker argues the following points:
1. Genetic engineering is inherently riskier than traditional breeding.
2. Transplanted genes act independently of the host organism´s intricate control system.
3. Foreign genes enter the host DNA haphazardly and disrupt the region into which they enter.
4. There is mounting evidence of genetically engineered (GE) plants with substantial and unexpected alterations in chemical composition.
5. There have been suspicious changes in laboratory animals that consume GE foods.
6. GE foods contain unique hazards.
7. The government has allowed GE foods to be marketed without testing.
8. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) falsely claims expert consensus regarding the safety of GE foods.
9. A large portion of human foodborne illness develops over a long time through repeated doses of harmful substances. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 287857
5/9/2008 4:01 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
[link to www.organicconsumers.org]
[link to www.organicgardening.com]
Baker Creek Seed Company
2278 Baker Creek Road
Mansfield, MO 67504
417-924-8917
www.rareseeds.com
Sand Hill Preservation Center
1878 230th St.
Calamus, Iowa 52729
563-246-2299
Seed Savers Exchange
3076 North Winn Road
Decorah, Iowa 52101
563-382-5990
www.seedsavers.org
Seeds of Change
P.O Box 15700
Santa Fe, NM 87506-5700
888-762-7333
www.seedsofchange.com
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
P.O. Box 460
Mineral, VA 23117
540-894-9480
www.southernexposure.com
victory seeds use to be great but I believe monsatan has bought them out-probably surrepetiously sticking their GMO crap here and there-working on sterilizing all other seeds
even genesis states,"...all plants and herbs, THOSE BEARING SEEDS,...I give to man..."
I do not believe STERILE SEEDS WERE PART OF THAT
BAD
Qi
really bad prana
bad chi/ki
TCM(trad chinese med) knows it |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 287857
5/9/2008 4:10 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
forgot this
say no to Frankenfoods(asia and europe try as well and FDA helps monsanto-rice fields fail-people starve-people bend the knee=you know the drill)
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 287857
5/9/2008 4:20 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
What You Should Know About Genetically Modified Foods!
What is Genetic Modification & Engineering?
Genetic engineering is a process whereby genes from one organism are moved into the genome of another organism. In the case of genetically engineered foods, genes from bacteria or other plants or organisms are moved into crop varieties with the assistance of a viral vector. This provides herbicide-tolerance and/or insect resistance to existing domesticated plant varieties. In many cases, biotechnology breaks down natural species boundaries. The genes inserted cannot be removed and thus become released into the environment during the pollination process.
Which Plants are being Genetically Modified?
Soybeans, Cotton, Corn, Rice, Sugar Beets, Canola, and Potatoes are the predominant crop plants being engineered. From 1996-2001 herbicide-tolerant plants (allowing them to withstand the overspray of herbicides) accounted for 77% of genetically modified acreage while the insect-resistant plants accounted for 15%. There are nearly 170 million global acres were planted with genetically engineered seed. To date, the bulk of modifications have been performed to reduce labor costs while no plants have been engineered for enhanced nutrition. Nearly 70% of foods in the United States grocery stores contain byproducts of genetically engineered organisms. Nabisco®, Frito-Lay®, Proctor & Gamble, and Kraft® are just a few of the food processing companies who are using genetically engineered byproducts.
How are Genetically Modified Foods Regulated?
Genetically modified plants are being regulated by a patchwork of three agencies: the EPA, FDA, and the USDA. The FDA considers genetic bioengineering to be a mere extension of traditional agriculture. In 1992, the FDA determined that foods with genetically engineered byproducts were not significantly different than conventionally grown foods. Companies must consult with the FDA but there are no requirements to test the food´s safety prior to full-scale marketing.
Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?
Unless a Life Science company calls the new genetic insertion a "food additive," genetically modified foods are not required to be submitted to pre-market safety testing for substantial equivalence. In 1999, the British Medical Association (BMA) published a report on the impact of genetic modification. The report states the BMA believes more research on issues around allergenicity and possible toxicity needs to be undertaken. In April of 2000, the National Academy of Sciences claimed new allergens may be introduced into foods via genetic engineering; new toxins may be introduced into foods; and existing toxins may reach new levels, or may move into the edible portion of plants. The FDA´s own scientists have warned that caution should be taken with the introduction of genetically engineered foods. FDA scientist, Dr. Gerald Guest writes:
In response to your question on how the agency should regulate genetically modified food plants, I and other scientists at the Center for Veterinary Medicine have concluded that there is ample scientific justification to support a pre-market review of these products. As you state in the Notice, the new methods of genetic modification permit the introduction of genes from a wider range of sources than possible by traditional breeding. The FDA will be confronted with new plant constituents that could be of toxicological or environmental concern.
Do Genetically Modified Foods Hurt or Help the Environment?
Genetically modified plants are promoted in part by claiming reductions in the need for synthetic herbicides and pesticides while the plants will not harm the environment. There is some evidence that insecticide use is down, particularly for the cotton crop which is notorious for large amounts of insecticide use, while studies on herbicide use show that levels have remained the same and in some cases have risen.
Perhaps the most poignant risk from genetically modified plants occurs at the environmental level. Newly introduced genes can spread to weedy relatives creating either more persistent weeds or in some cases sending a rare species into extinction. We need our weeds - they are in many cases the traditional relatives of our domesticated plants. They assist us in overcoming crop blight. General hybridization with wild traditional weedy plants has created more aggressive weeds for many of the world´s most important crops. Are transgenic crops different? No. We know that gene movement is likely and we know we can lose track of gene movement. It will be even more important to track and contain movement as we introduce the second wave of genetically modified crops to produce pharmaceutical and industrial biochemicals.
Do Genetically Modified Foods Solve the World Hunger Problem?
New varieties of genetically engineered crop plants have consistently shown reduced amounts produced per acre since their introduction.
[link to environmentalcommons.org] |
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patented puck slave
User ID: 316413
5/9/2008 4:25 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
Monsanto, the genome licenser, father God, magical seed dispenser.
Alpha? Beta? Epsilon? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430124
5/9/2008 4:31 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
i can't even begin to tell you how much i hate monsanto
the kicker was in Iraq, where in the cradle of civilization, they have made it illegal for the farmers to save seeds, a practice which is thousands of years old
Monsanto is more dangerous than the Military Industrial Complex
Very disturbing. Hope they get what's coming to them...soon! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 430466
they made moregellons, and yes, they will be getting it back very soon. evil freaks all the way around. no mercy for monsanto. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 287857
5/9/2008 5:01 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
[link to www.mindfully.org]
"In June 2003, President George W. Bush made the issue of lifting an 8-year European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) plants a matter of US national strategic priority. This came only days after the US occupation of Baghdad. The timing was not accidental. Since that time, EU resistance to GM plants has crumbled, as has that of Brazil, and other key agriculture producing nations. One year before, the future of GM crops was in doubt.
Now, some months and enormous pressure later, the strategists of GM food hegemony are on the verge of a control over the global human and animal food chain never held by any single nation or power.
The agency at the center of the GM controversy is the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. Over the past decade, this influential private foundation has spent more than $100 million in sponsoring research and development of GM crops to be deployed in world food production. They have specifically targeted key developing nations in their effort."
[link to www.mindfully.org]
Glyphosate=roundup
the agreement farmers are required to sign to use monsanto
[link to www.mindfully.org]
[link to www.mindfully.org]
and rBGH their crappy growth hormone
Down a dirt road, tucked in rolling fields, John Nutting's farm is a picture of tranquility. A wintry breeze sighs through the forest. Black-and-white Holsteins chew their cuds in a lazy rhythm. Only the large sign hammered onto a red barn attests to the defiant mood in Maine dairy country: OUR PLEDGE--NO ARTIFICIAL HORMONES.
"We are in the business of marketing milk not Monsanto's drugs."
Hormones are a hot issue in these parts. As do at least 85% of Maine's milk producers, Nutting signs an affidavit each year vowing not to inject his cows with recombinant bovine somatotropin (RBST), a genetically engineered growth hormone. "We're proud of the way we farm," says the third-generation dairyman. "Consumers have the right to know how their milk is made."
monsanto frequently bribes govt officials
[link to www.mindfully.org]
anyone say F D A
# Monsanto Cuts Jobs Because of . . . WHAT? - St Louis Post-Dispatch 15oct03
# GM Crops Giant Monsanto Pulls Out of Europe - Daily Telegraph (UK) 15oct03
# Monsanto Posts Loss, to Cut Jobs - Fox News 15oct03
# Monsanto Pulling Out of Cambridge - BBC News 15oct03
# Monsanto Retreating from European Wheat Business - Reuters 15oct03
# Banning GM Crops Not Enough to Save Wildlife - New Scientist 15oct03
# Judge Allows Antitrust Case Against Seed Producers - NY Times 24sep03
# rBGH Labeling May Harm Dairy Industry - Badger Herald (Wisconsin) 22sep03
# Monsanto Urges Brazil Soy Growers to Pay Royalties - Reuters 16sep03
# Indian Farmers Wreck Monsanto Research Station in Bangalore - AP 12sep03
# Indian Farmers Target Monsanto: Following the suicide of 70 farmers in last 3 months - BBC News 11sep03
# Japan Wheat Buyers Warn Against Biotech Wheat in US - Reuters 10sep03
# Brazil Court Overturns GM Soy Ruling - just-food.com 9sep03
# Monsanto's French GM Maize Crop Attacked - Reuters 6sep03
# Solutia, Monsanto Agree to Pay $600 Million to Settle PCB Claims - Wall Street Journal 21aug03
# Deal Reached in PCB Trials - Anniston Star 21aug03 |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 355852
5/9/2008 5:44 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
Hey free markets people, you don't want any trade resrtictions or restrictions on freedom right? This is this corporations freedom to conduct business however it pleases them, if you don't like how they do it? buy yer seeds from someone else....ooops, nobody else? welp tough crap then ya gotta follow their rules however they make em then if you want to guy their products.
Woo hoo! Ain't freedom great?! Quoting: SHR
Gotta love capitalism run amok! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 287857
5/9/2008 5:48 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
Hey free markets people, you don't want any trade resrtictions or restrictions on freedom right? This is this corporations freedom to conduct business however it pleases them, if you don't like how they do it? buy yer seeds from someone else....ooops, nobody else? welp tough crap then ya gotta follow their rules however they make em then if you want to guy their products.
Woo hoo! Ain't freedom great?!
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Gotta love capitalism run amok! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 355852
Doesn't hurt to install Clarence Thomas on the supremecourt when they help bring in tyrannical laws
He use to be a Monsanto attorney-imagine that
to help pass the illegal "equivalency law"
liars throughout-obfuscating the truth
The reports demonstrated it was not as safe as they presented if one would look-even in the documentation monsanto presented |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 356615
5/9/2008 6:36 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
HEY MONSANTO, YOU BUNCH OF BIG AHOLES.
REMEMBER THE 300 BRAZILIAN WOMEN THAT RANSACKED MONSANTO
FACILITIES!!!
YOU AIN"T SEEN NOTHING YET YOU BUNCH OF SEED OUT THE ASS SPUTTIN AHOLES. |
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End Game
User ID: 429660
5/9/2008 7:00 PM | | Re: Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear | Quote |
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 424418
I guess the Japanese won the war after all.
Fucking with the food, fucking with our minds.
Fucking with everything all the time
and in general making life worse.
like smaller clothes washers that use less water but you end up doing 2 loads of wash instead on one and using twice amount of resources. idiot!
Great thread keep the pressure on fucking Monsanto.
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