Post by SPLASH on Jun 26, 2011 22:41:26 GMT -5
And anyone else who may care.............
Remember in the movie "Food INC" the Monsanto company?
For those who haven't seen the movie or don't know about this, Monsanto is a company that has many politicians in their back pocket that has put thousands of smalltime farmers out of business. Monsanto is the company that developed Roundup (weed killer) Roundup was great for the home gardener that is to lazy to hoe up weeds and rather spray a chemical to kill them, but the real money was in bigtime farmers growing crops for sale to grocery stores etc. At first Roundup would kill any plant/weed it touched so you could spray weeds in your garden, but it was useless to to bigtime farmers since they spray from an air plane (crop dusting) it would kill the crop along with the weeds. So, Monsanto developed a soy bean seed that is resistant to Roundup. Here's how they put smalltime farmers out of business. There is a patent on this seed. All smalltime farmers would save soy bean seeds after harvest to plant the next year. This saves thousands of dollars for them.
Now a little horticultural lesson. the pollen from the flowers on all plants drifts in the air currents/winds. So if a farmer used this Monsanto Roundup resistant seed and pollination time came, the pollen drifted from his farm to the farm next door causing cross pollination. No biggie as this has happened since the beginning of farming. No problem until Monsanto patented their seed. Now the farmer who saved his seeds from year to year has Roundup resistent seed genes in their seed. Monsanto sends investigators to farms not buying their seed, the investigators will take crop from that farmer to test for their gene. If the Monsanto gene was found in that farmers crop they sued the farmer for patent infringement. This was shown in the movie and some farmers would not show their face in fear of being sued by Monsanto. The corporate lawyers would keep these farmers in court until the farmer ran out of money from lawyer fees or started buying seed from Monsanto. Corporate domination of farming.
Well guess what? Monsanto has released a Roundup resistant corn seed. Now corporate domination of all corn farming will start and many farmers will be put out of business. Now checkout this link.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/roundup-birth-defects-herbicide-regulators_n_872862.html
they have known since 1980 and it just now has been made public? Must be nice to be a huge corporation with politicians in your pocket. Does this make you mad too?
Remember in the movie "Food INC" the Monsanto company?
For those who haven't seen the movie or don't know about this, Monsanto is a company that has many politicians in their back pocket that has put thousands of smalltime farmers out of business. Monsanto is the company that developed Roundup (weed killer) Roundup was great for the home gardener that is to lazy to hoe up weeds and rather spray a chemical to kill them, but the real money was in bigtime farmers growing crops for sale to grocery stores etc. At first Roundup would kill any plant/weed it touched so you could spray weeds in your garden, but it was useless to to bigtime farmers since they spray from an air plane (crop dusting) it would kill the crop along with the weeds. So, Monsanto developed a soy bean seed that is resistant to Roundup. Here's how they put smalltime farmers out of business. There is a patent on this seed. All smalltime farmers would save soy bean seeds after harvest to plant the next year. This saves thousands of dollars for them.
Now a little horticultural lesson. the pollen from the flowers on all plants drifts in the air currents/winds. So if a farmer used this Monsanto Roundup resistant seed and pollination time came, the pollen drifted from his farm to the farm next door causing cross pollination. No biggie as this has happened since the beginning of farming. No problem until Monsanto patented their seed. Now the farmer who saved his seeds from year to year has Roundup resistent seed genes in their seed. Monsanto sends investigators to farms not buying their seed, the investigators will take crop from that farmer to test for their gene. If the Monsanto gene was found in that farmers crop they sued the farmer for patent infringement. This was shown in the movie and some farmers would not show their face in fear of being sued by Monsanto. The corporate lawyers would keep these farmers in court until the farmer ran out of money from lawyer fees or started buying seed from Monsanto. Corporate domination of farming.
Well guess what? Monsanto has released a Roundup resistant corn seed. Now corporate domination of all corn farming will start and many farmers will be put out of business. Now checkout this link.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/roundup-birth-defects-herbicide-regulators_n_872862.html
they have known since 1980 and it just now has been made public? Must be nice to be a huge corporation with politicians in your pocket. Does this make you mad too?
Look into it Splashy. He owns land over an aquifer, a major aquifer that supplies alot of drinking water and even supplies the great lakes. He had the law changed in Texas so he can now drill for water and cut off the supply anywhere else so theyll have to buy it from him. Rotten s.o.b. 
He had me fooled with his commercials, i actually thought he had some good points until i saw what he was really about.
