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tj444 -> RE: Our food supply (11/2/2011 5:06:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tolovetolaugh
Yep. On one of the articles I was reading it said 15 years- but that like yours all the promises it had made about increased production were pure crap.Purely about the power, and controlling the worlds food.
You should look at what they did to Argentina.
http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=766
" One country that chose to accept GM crops, whilst refusing to adapt patent law to meet Monsanto’s wishes, was Argentina. Monsanto’s GM Roundup Ready Soya, developed to be resistant to Roundup herbicide, entered the Argentine market at a time when the country had decided to focus its agriculture towards soya for exports. By subsidizing the Roundup, not patenting the crops, and allowing extensive contamination, GM soya took over 95% of the soya market. The social costs of this takeover were considerable -the herbicide-resistant technology was favorable to the largest Agribusiness farms whose farms expanded to tens of thousands of hectares, while hundreds of thousands of farming families were forced off the land to become unemployed in the cities. Once Monsanto controlled the nation’s soya economy in this way, they threatened to cut off the seed supply if the Argentine government did not implement patent law, help Monsanto to recoup their royalties, make GM seed saving illegal, and put an end to the black market. A government proposal for a "Technology Compensation Fund" that would levy a charge on farmers selling their soybean harvests, in order to return the equivalent of the royalty charges to the GM Company, is currently stuck in Congress due to resistance from farming groups. Now Monsanto’s new strategy is to block exports when ships carrying exported soybeans arrive in a different country, until their demands for royalty payments are met. Argentina is currently planning to take legal action against Monsanto as the company blocks soya shipments to Spain from reaching the European Union."
Sounds like terrorism to me!
Yes, Monsanto is nasty scum and it floored me to hear people defend them and say their gmos were going to feed the worlds poor and end starvation.. [8|] I have read lots about Monsanto and their tactics.. and having grown up on a small family farm.. well,.. my mother was very anti-pesticide/chemicals and thats a huge part of what Monsanto is. So, I was automatically anti-Monsanto...
I dont think gmos are going away, unfortunately. The patents on the early gmos are running out soon, in the US and i have read that the Chinese have a cheaper generic round-up now and the generic gmo seeds will happen soon too so Monsanto will lose their edge. I dont know how the patents work in other countries tho, but i expect the Chinese will find a way around them there. Patents expiring is probably the biggest threat to Monsanto, farmers around the world will buy the cheaper stuff when that becomes available to them.
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