[DeTomaso] NPC - Monsanto

Gray Gregory rgg at gregorycook.com
Thu Jan 20 19:27:10 EST 2011


I was just pointing out the specific reason for sitting on GM rice. I'm NOT defending Monsanto! People can do their own research on them and make up their own minds. I'm personally not a fan of their business tactics, but their technology has enabled farmers to achieve crop yields that were unimaginable a decade or so ago. And as food resources become more and more sought after around the world we're going to be glad we have these high yielding crops!

Gray

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf Of Larry Finch
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:11 PM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - Monsanto


 Now that we have morphed to Monsanto........what a dick of a company THEY are.

Google the Canadian farmer that lost in court to them over his 'use' of Monsanto's Round-up resistant flax seed.

Now flax is a very small seed, prone to falling off trucks on the way to mills. So this farmer, NOT wanting to use their seed for his crop as it cannot be exported to Europe, winds up with volunteer Monsanto plants in his flax field. Which in turn wind up in his harvest. Monsanto somehow gets wind of this, sues his ass for using their seed without buying it.....

Now the whole Canadian flax industry is contaminated and the Europe market is lost to Canadian farmers.

Amazing, but true.

Don't be surprised if you really get worked up once your Google results start to feed you to other instances of that company's greed and legalese.

Larry

 


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