Is Monsanto a Threat?

[whitehall]

What is it with the left? They claim that big government is the solution and then they act as if big government is powerless. If Monsanto is a threat it is because the Hussein administration allows it to be a threat.

 

[Clementine]

They control the seeds to the food and when someone controls the food they are uber powerful. Not only that but because Monsanto has given a lot of coin to Congress and the Senate, even becoming part of the government themselves now they are more than Uber powerful...Uberiest? IDK...But now since they've managed to get the Monsanto Protection act slipped into another bill...ANONOMOUSLY!?

Now they don't have to worry about the after effects of the GMO's. Mo' Money Mo' Money

Facts: Monsanto controls about 80-90% of the Soybean market, Monsanto controls about 70-80% of the sugar beet market

Monsanto sued an independent farmer, Percy Schmeiser, for patent infringement for growing GMO genetically modified Roundup resistant canola in 1998. Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola by pollen from a nearby GMO farm. Monsanto successfully argued in a lawsuit that Schmeiser violated their patent rights, and forced Schmeiser to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

etc etc etc. If you have any additional, interesting or otherwise facts on the company please post.

What do you think about it?

They'll make sure people's crops get contaminated with their vile shit and then they can claim patent rights. They should be sued for contaminating other people's crops. Oh, wait, the Dems passed legislation making sure that no one can sue them for contaminated crops, severe illness or death. Ain't government wonderful?

 

[tinydancer]

I don't know who is a bigger threat: Monsanto or DuPont.

Both dangerous and powerful. And one more time never forget Bayer.

 

[whitehall]

Monsanto controls nothing. They manufacture and distribute a product within the guidelines of about a thousand federal regulations. There was a time when the radical left blamed the government for everything. Now that we have a left wing quasi socialist administration the radical left blames big corporations.

 

[Clementine]

Monsanto hold is on roundup ready seeds. if you don't feel the need to use roundup than don't buy from Monsanto.

I don't know of anything at burger King or McDonald that has a Monsanto label to it.

Did you read the above post? You don't have to buy their crap. If the wind blows it onto your fields, they want money.

The Obama administration supports them even though there are plenty of studies showing the dangers of their product. And the liberals in Washington don't have any qualms about this big business making billions by selling people stuff that might make them sick or even kill them. They saw to it that Monsanto is protected against any lawsuits from the little people who might be hurt by them. I thought liberals were against stuff like that, but apparently not.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Monsanto hold is on roundup ready seeds. if you don't feel the need to use roundup than don't buy from Monsanto.

I don't know of anything at burger King or McDonald that has a Monsanto label to it.

Did you read the above post? You don't have to buy their crap. If the wind blows it onto your fields, they want money.

The Obama administration supports them even though there are plenty of studies showing the dangers of their product. And the liberals in Washington don't have any qualms about this big business making billions by selling people stuff that might make them sick or even kill them. They saw to it that Monsanto is protected against any lawsuits from the little people who might be hurt by them. I thought liberals were against stuff like that, but apparently not.

I was a sugarbeet grower for 50 years dumbass. every heard of amalgamated sugar or white satin sugar in Idaho\
the ninth circuit court tried stoppoing roundup ready beat seed in Idaho. The "farmers" fought to get monsanto back, not monsanto
fortunately the farmers won and not you paranoid fools

 

[whitehall]

Monsanto controls nothing. The Hussein administration is in the driver's seat. Worry about Barry for the next 3 1/2 years.

 

[ClosedCaption]

They control the seeds to the food and when someone controls the food they are uber powerful. Not only that but because Monsanto has given a lot of coin to Congress and the Senate, even becoming part of the government themselves now they are more than Uber powerful...Uberiest? IDK...But now since they've managed to get the Monsanto Protection act slipped into another bill...ANONOMOUSLY!?

Now they don't have to worry about the after effects of the GMO's. Mo' Money Mo' Money

Facts: Monsanto controls about 80-90% of the Soybean market, Monsanto controls about 70-80% of the sugar beet market

Monsanto sued an independent farmer, Percy Schmeiser, for patent infringement for growing GMO genetically modified Roundup resistant canola in 1998. Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola by pollen from a nearby GMO farm. Monsanto successfully argued in a lawsuit that Schmeiser violated their patent rights, and forced Schmeiser to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

etc etc etc. If you have any additional, interesting or otherwise facts on the company please post.

What do you think about it?

They'll make sure people's crops get contaminated with their vile shit and then they can claim patent rights. They should be sued for contaminating other people's crops. Oh, wait, the Dems passed legislation making sure that no one can sue them for contaminated crops, severe illness or death. Ain't government wonderful?

The bill was slipped in ANONOMOUSLY but they believe it was Grassley who gets big money from Monsanto. Not only was it slipped in anomalously but it was then voted on and no one read the dam bill!

 

[martybegan]

They control the seeds to the food and when someone controls the food they are uber powerful. Not only that but because Monsanto has given a lot of coin to Congress and the Senate, even becoming part of the government themselves now they are more than Uber powerful...Uberiest? IDK...But now since they've managed to get the Monsanto Protection act slipped into another bill...ANONOMOUSLY!?

Now they don't have to worry about the after effects of the GMO's. Mo' Money Mo' Money

Facts: Monsanto controls about 80-90% of the Soybean market, Monsanto controls about 70-80% of the sugar beet market

Monsanto sued an independent farmer, Percy Schmeiser, for patent infringement for growing GMO genetically modified Roundup resistant canola in 1998. Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola by pollen from a nearby GMO farm. Monsanto successfully argued in a lawsuit that Schmeiser violated their patent rights, and forced Schmeiser to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

etc etc etc. If you have any additional, interesting or otherwise facts on the company please post.

What do you think about it?

For the next several years, the case traveled through the Canadian court system. Meanwhile, Schmeiser became an international symbol and spokesman for the movement against the genetic engineering of food. He accepted speaking engagements, and received donations for his defense fund, from around the world. Ultimately, a Supreme Court 5-4 ruling found partly in favor of Monsanto, because Schmeiser had intentionally replanted the seed that he had saved.[3]

The publicity around the case focused on whether Monsanto would be held responsible for “genetic engineering crop contamination”. This issue was, in explicit fact, not considered by the courts. The patent infringement finding was based solely on the determination that Schmeiser had collected crossbred seeds, and then replanted and harvested them the next year. No punitive damages, costs of the technology use fee, or legal fees were awarded to Monsanto, as the Supreme Court also ruled 9-0 in Schmeiser's favor that his profits were exactly the same with or without the presence of the Roundup Ready Canola.

Percy Schmeiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Schmeiser v. Monsanto [edit]

On August 11, 1999, Schmeiser sued Monsanto for ten million dollars for "libel, trespass, and contamination of his fields with Roundup Ready Canola". However, that suit went nowhere.[citation needed]

In 2005, more Roundup Ready Canola plants appeared in Schmeiser's fields. Schmeiser and his wife sent Monsanto a bill for $660 in cleanup costs. Monsanto offered to pay the costs with the stipulation that the Schmeisers sign a release stating they would not discuss the terms of the agreement; Percy described this release as a gag order. Schmeiser refused to sign, and filed a lawsuit in small claims court for the same amount. On March 19, 2008 Monsanto settled out of court, paying the $660 without stipulation.[4]

He wasnt sued because the plants just ended up on his land, he was sued because he REPLANTED with the seeds from the Monsanto patented plants. The issue before the court wasnt the plants growing on his land without his doing anything, it was his re-use of the plants when he knew what they were.

His 2nd lawsuit suing for costs to remove said plants when he discovered them on his land was the right way to go.

 

[ClosedCaption]

It's both sides

 

[GHook93]

They control the seeds to the food and when someone controls the food they are uber powerful. Not only that but because Monsanto has given a lot of coin to Congress and the Senate, even becoming part of the government themselves now they are more than Uber powerful...Uberiest? IDK...But now since they've managed to get the Monsanto Protection act slipped into another bill...ANONOMOUSLY!?

Now they don't have to worry about the after effects of the GMO's. Mo' Money Mo' Money

Facts: Monsanto controls about 80-90% of the Soybean market, Monsanto controls about 70-80% of the sugar beet market

Monsanto sued an independent farmer, Percy Schmeiser, for patent infringement for growing GMO genetically modified Roundup resistant canola in 1998. Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola by pollen from a nearby GMO farm. Monsanto successfully argued in a lawsuit that Schmeiser violated their patent rights, and forced Schmeiser to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

etc etc etc. If you have any additional, interesting or otherwise facts on the company please post.

What do you think about it?

What a load of crap. They don't control the seeds! They control their product which happens to be a very EFFECTIVE seed. There are a TON of other seed producers and even copy cats of Monsanto. In fact, Monsanto has been the PLAINTIFF in over a 100 patent infringement lawsuits. However, what liberal don't like or want to accept is that farmers freely go to Monsanto because they get the best product and the biggest yield.

Benefits to Monsanto's genetically engineered seed:
(1) Largest Yield:

Monsanto calls these seeds "Roundup Ready". Monsanto's introduction of this system (planting glyphosate-resistant seed and then applying glyphosate once plants emerged) provided farmers with an opportunity to dramatically increase the yield from a given plot of land, since this allowed them to plant rows closer together. Without it, farmers had to plant rows far enough apart to control post-emergent weeds with mechanical tillage. Farmers have widely adopted the technology
Roundup Ready soybean trait patent nears expiration in 2014

(2) Resistance to herbicides:
Herbicides kill pest, weeds and things that destroy yield. Herbicides are a godsent and many farmers in colonial times wish that had them. However, herbicides can be harmful to seeds, but not to Monsanto's seeds. Another reason people like them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/b...eview-to-delay-two-engineered-crops.html?_r=0

(3) Drought Resistant Seed:
Liberals will somehow say this is bad, but droughts destroy crops worldwide. It's a huge problem and Monsanto is working to find a solution.

Biotech companies race for drought-tolerant crops | Reuters

(4) Cheaper Price:
Monsanto's products are rapidly produced at a lower cost. This allows Monsanto to sell at a lower price tag.


Monsanto has had some bumps in the road much like every corporation - such as the ineffective seeds in India. I mean even Walmart had some misses. A few years ago Walmart lost billions on trying to go into designer/higher quality clothes and it was a huge flopper! Monsanto is no different. Liberals scream at them as evil for having a miss that ended in many farmers going bankrupt, but I guarantee that was not intentional. I mean why would Monsanto want their product to fail? That is a lose of customers, a market and worst of all (from a business standpoint) goodwill!

Liberals scream about Monsanto because of the science fiction what ifs! This should be taken seriously, but Monsanto seeds must pass inspections in every country they sell to and they do. Liberals will scream about the political contributions they make, but will ignore the political contributions unions, like the IRS employees union and Public Teachers Unions provide!

Monsanto is NOT an evil corporation and they have made the world better!

 

[ClosedCaption]

Ok Ghook, they don't control the seed but they control their product...which is seed. Thanks for clarifying that.

 

[editec]

They control the seeds to the food and when someone controls the food they are uber powerful. Not only that but because Monsanto has given a lot of coin to Congress and the Senate, even becoming part of the government themselves now they are more than Uber powerful...Uberiest? IDK...But now since they've managed to get the Monsanto Protection act slipped into another bill...ANONOMOUSLY!?

Now they don't have to worry about the after effects of the GMO's. Mo' Money Mo' Money

Facts: Monsanto controls about 80-90% of the Soybean market, Monsanto controls about 70-80% of the sugar beet market

Monsanto sued an independent farmer, Percy Schmeiser, for patent infringement for growing GMO genetically modified Roundup resistant canola in 1998. Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola by pollen from a nearby GMO farm. Monsanto successfully argued in a lawsuit that Schmeiser violated their patent rights, and forced Schmeiser to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

etc etc etc. If you have any additional, interesting or otherwise facts on the company please post.

What do you think about it?

I think its a international corporation gone out of control.

I note with no amusement that OBAMA seems to love them, just the SCOTUS does.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Russia warns of world war over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) | Care2 Share

Important to note, this report says, is that Syngenta, along with bio-tech giants Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont, now control nearly 100% of the global market for genetically modified pesticides, plants and seeds.

Also to note about Syngenta, this report continues, is that in 2012 it was criminally charged in Germany for concealing the fact that its genetically modified corn killed cattle, and settled a class-action lawsuit in the US for $105 million after it was discovered they had contaminated the drinking supply of some 52 million Americans in more than 2,000 water districts with its “gender-bending” herbicide Atrazine.

 

[whitehall]

Corporations can't hurt you unless you are too ignorant to understand the product or you want to be hurt. Why do lefties conveniently forget that only government has the power whenever a left wing socialist is in the White House?

 

[KissMy]

Genetic seed licensing has caused a serious problem this year. Food prices are riseing because of it. There was a drought last year & the genetic seed farms failed to produce enough seed for this years corn planting. I have mixed corn in my bin but I am not allowed to plant it. The seed companies have the same problem I do. I planted multiple genetic varieties of corn & beans. They are all combined into 2 large grain bins. The seed company can't just buy corn on the commodities market, sort, clean & bag it for seed because all different genetics are combined together. If you plant this & don't pay tech fees for each genetic variety to the various corporations like Dupont, Stine, Monsanto, etc you get in serious legal trouble & will lose your farm.

Since the contracted seed corn farmers who keep the gene varieties separated failed to produce enough, there is now legally a shortage of corn seed even though there was physically enough to plant. I have never came across this conundrum before. I planned on planting at least half my 1,000 acres in corn but I only had seed for 25 acres. So that 25 acres is all that got planted. This is causing food prices soar. Congress needs to pass a law to allow planting of stored seed when seed companies fail to supply the market.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Corporations can't hurt you unless you are too ignorant to understand the product or you want to be hurt. Why do lefties conveniently forget that only government has the power whenever a left wing socialist is in the White House?

Go sit in the corner grown folks are talking

 

[bendog]

yes.

 

[GHook93]

Ok Ghook, they don't control the seed but they control their product...which is seed. Thanks for clarifying that.

You made it seem like they control every seed in the entire world, which is far from the truth. There are natural seed producers and genetic modified producers like Monsanto that are competing directly with Monsanto. Don't make it seem like you weren't suggesting they had a world monopoly on seed production!

 

[ClosedCaption]

Ok Ghook, they don't control the seed but they control their product...which is seed. Thanks for clarifying that.

You made it seem like they control every seed in the entire world, which is far from the truth. There are natural seed producers and genetic modified producers like Monsanto that are competing directly with Monsanto. Don't make it seem like you weren't suggesting they had a world monopoly on seed production!

See, people who think this is not the people I'm talking to. I'm talking to those with a brain in their skulls.