IMO; They'd make an awesome villian for the next James Bond Movie 8-) It would be sooooo believable for Bond to eliminate them before they eliminated us.
Monsanto bought up ...family owned seed companies selling open pollinated seeds... you could save yourself instead of having to buy them every year...
What ever cranks your tractor. But come on, FAMILY OWNED SEED COMPANIES?
... As late as the 1980s, most seed companies were small, family owed operations. Many of them offered quality open pollinated seed and they maintained a huge genetic diversity...
And we're big supporters of the 'seed savers exchange' who've been around for a while.I joined Seed Savers Exchange in 1984 and was a member for 20 years. I even visited the farm in Decorah, IA once.
For example, corn seed is considerably more simple to save than tomato seed.Well, I guess it's a matter of what one means by easy or simple. I save about 25 varieties but I do avoid biennials. Tomatoes are quite easy if you let the pulp sit for 3 days to develop a fungal coating. Then just wash through a strainer.
... I was talking to an old friend from the State Department the other day and he was telling me that a lot of the dollars currently supporting the opposition to the KEYSTONE PIPELINE ... is coming from... Monsanto...
As for Monsanto suing farmers, the last time I looked, ALL Monsanto's seed customers were farmers. If Monsanto did not produce seed products that farmers wanted, needed, and valued, no one would buy a single grain of GM corn from Monsanto. Furthermore, if Monsanto treated its customers like some of you have been convinced by politicos that they do, no North American farmer would allow a Monsanto seed or seed salesman on his land. Monsanto has way to much cash invested to treat customers or potential customers like that. Step back and objectively listen to and read what is being said and written on the subject, but most of all don't let some politico dude or dudet with a hidden agenda jerk you around by the nose and make you nod your head, clap your hands, and yelp like a trained seal.They do actually treat their customers this badly. It is well documented. My husband was in a meeting with Monsanto seed salesman, who had tacked on enormous "technology fees" to each bag of corn and soy seeds. When asked why, the salesman said "Because we can."
... Buying organic is the ONLY way to be sure you're not eating GMO...
... We went from ...discussing eating organic as an effort to not eat GMO crops, to a discussion of armyworms...
... Buying organic is the ONLY way to be sure you're not eating GMO...
You think so? ......Now I see nothing wrong with organics as long as the consumer employs a little of that most uncommon thing called common sense. But I am not prepaired to hold my breath until the man or woman on the street gets an education about the relative dangers and benefits between so called "organic" food and food produced using other methods.
IMHO, eating Organic is about a childish warm and fuzzy feeling, meaning feeling superior about our inferior selves, by finding something to hold over the heads of others. Its like shouting, "LOOK AT ME, I'M BETTER THAN YOU BECAUSE MY ETHICS CAN BEAT UP YOUR ETHICS!!! Just my two cents worth.
Now I ask you, is it any wonder then that many people in the Third World think we in the First World are out to kill the people living in Developing Countries?
... Kingbee, out here in farm country they have been spreading their animal waste for centuries. I take some good ol organics from my cows and chickens and shovel some onto my garden plot annually...
... organic is old. Very old...
... Kingbee, actually spend some time in ag before you talk like you understand it all. I am surrounded by conventional agriculture...
... My conventional farming husband used to... vehement attack... organic [agriculture] also... He still has reservations about its feasability on a grand scale (I don't)...
... I don't see anyone "imposing" organic. You simply buy it, or you don't...
In the reading I've done, starvation seems to be more of a distribution/unstable governments problem than lack of food...
... Artificial fertilizers are like eating starch, sugar, and fat to get your nutrition...
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... Why can't folks denounce companies and industries that they are odds with?...
... GMO is new. I am not convinced it is safe. I am not convinced it is dangerous. I simply don't know. I would prefer to not consume it until there is a LONG track record for it...Fine, there are hundreds and hundreds of organic choices available to you or to anyone else at the local grocery store, just in case your home garden comes up short.
... As for the OTHER issues with GMO--contamination of other species, etc., I'm firmly against it....No one is for contaminating anything, quite the opposite. But are there any FACTS that state that GMOs contaminate anything? If there are I fail to find them. There is this one fact that no one who opposes GMOs seems willing to admit. Before Bt corn or cotton came on the scene it was quite common for farmers to spray their crops multiple times with dangerous chemical pesticides in order to control insect pest. In one of your posts you mentioned a neighbor farmer who you came close to claiming died from brain cancer as a result of exposure to chemical pesticides. The flip side of that coin is that this man may still be living if GMOs had arrived sooner. I don't think that you are happy that he died, but would you trade his life for fewer GMO crops in your neck of the woods? I am betting that his family would not.
... I will continue to denounce any company that tries to patent the seed supply and forces so many other seed producers out of business...The facts are that Monsanto has never sold a single seed to anyone anywhere. They do license their gene splicing technology to other seed companies both local, national, and international. The seed companies that you have been told that Monsanto is forcing out of business are doing quite well because they now have a product, Monsanto’s GMO seed, that is very much in demand. Besides Monsanto's paten for Round Up Ready soybeans expires in 2014. After that Round Up Ready beans will be in the public domain and you, your husband, even Old McDonald will be free to save and replant Round Up Ready soybeans. They will be free. What is wrong with free?
... Kingbee--I still think comparing labeling GMO foods to the Holocaust is ridiculous. Now if I were suggesting putting stars on the PEOPLE who consume/grow GMO foods, I would agree with you....Refer to the first part of my post. You are free to eat all the organic food you desire or can hold. All organic food is GMO free food. Like there is no GMOs in organic food, nada, non, zip, nien. What more is there to wish for other than slapping identifying symbols or labels on nor organic food like the Nazis did to Jews????
... I'm not suggesting that. I personally consider it a right of the consumer to know where their products come from...Then let them eat organic, read the above but when ever in doubt resort to the facts.