Monsanto Defeats Small Farmers in "Critical Bioethics Class Action Suit" - allowing its patented crops to blow seeds onto their properties, then suing them
source: http://www.dailytech.com/Monsanto+Defeats+Small+Farmers+in+Critical+Bioethics+Class+Action+S...
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Company argues it's not "out to get" America's small population of organic farmers, cites lack of lawsuits.Monsanto It is accused of abusing intellectual property rights to sue small farms (allowing its patented crops to blow seeds onto their properties, then suing them);
trying to bribe officials in Canada and Indonesia, and suing dairy farmers who advertise that their milk doesn't contain growth hormones. They also were the company responsible for spraying Agent Orange all over soldiers in Vietnam, which is thought to have led to cancer and other ailments.
In the case the farmers, sought relief against Monsanto in the form a prohibition on Monsanto from bringing suit against organic farmers regarding seed contamination, given the really real possibility of cross-pollination via the wind and animals.
Mr. Stephens, who received degrees from Wichita State University (Kans.) and Washburn University (Kans.), turned away from a potentially lucrative career in law to instead run an 1,000 acre family farm that has been organic since 1994. But Mr. Stephens states that he was unable to grow organic soybeans -- a high demand crop -- for two reason both tracing to Monsanto's transgenic crops.
First, he says that his neighbors grew the transgenic strain. When other farmers in the area took their soybeans to be genetically tested, they test positive for Monsanto's patented genes -- the Monsanto crop had spread its germ into their fields. As bulk buyers who supply such mega-health food chains such as Whole Food Market, Inc. (WFM) test for transgenic genetics, this would have made his crop essentially worthless. It is estimated that between 0.5 and 2 percent of "organic" corn is really genetically modified.
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The "industrial food producers" are a sickening disgrace! They need to be REGULATED!!! Their mad-greed needs to be CONTROLLED or they'll kill us all with the so-called "food" they -produce-.
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MSII:
That is exactly correct !!!!
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ejasun
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Food, Inc. - Industrial Chicken Farmers - Do you know they give chickens hormones and prozac! So you eating the samething. Plus all the gmo from the government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enwU5jIXSlU&feature=related
Grow your own or find a small scale farmer near you.... period. No need to give up meat... just give up the big name companies.
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ejasun:
Truth!
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Between corporate greed, fascism and poverty, we are creating THE scenario that increases the possibility of a major pandemic. This is exactly the END elitists intended for us ~ are you prepared? Only the improved immune systems of raw-foodists will be able to endure the imminent catastrophic consequences of the coming revolution... What? Thanks to internet, the age of knowledge IS upon us. Wake up to truth, tell others NOW before its too late for us 99%.
Bill Maher is a lunatic on food/health issues. Michael Pollen is completely reasonable.
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Food, Inc. Monsanto control 90% of US .
Monsanto. They force the farmers to plant their crap and then cause the rest of us to develop cancer through their modified shit. The farmers should just stop planting for a few years. This roundup ready seed kills the bee population and God knows what else!
MonSATAN largest shareholder? William Gates..the vaccine murderer along with his murdering wife Melinda..nobody knows better than Gates than how to monopolize a market as he did with his Windows operating system..& now nobody is better at killing women & children with vaccines made by Pig Farm-ah than Gates..47,500 children in India paralyzed or murdered by Bill Gates..his father murders children for Planned Parenthood..???
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Organic Firm Spars with Monsanto in Seed Lawsuit.
"Essentially, it's a suit to get Monsanto to stop suing people whose farms have been contaminated by their genetically modified seeds,"Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, began suing farmers for patent infringement in 1997, citing intellectual property rights of the genetic material carried by their patented seeds.
For the first time, farmers weren't allowed to plant seeds in the spring from last fall's crop. They had to sign technology agreements agreeing not to use the seeds or to pay royalties to Monsanto for the right to.
Although the extra expense of buying seed annually isn't popular, the seeds are. "Roundup Ready" soybeans, corn and cotton dominate their respective markets, and similar versions of canola, sugar beets and alfalfa are gaining in popularity. The seeds, which have had genetic material from another species inserted into them, are popular because of their ability to resist potent herbicides that kill nearly every other plant in the field, minimizing labor and maximizing yields.
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