Supreme Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Replicating Product | Wired Did you read the article? Read the article. Monsanto, come on, really? I can't believe what I'm reading. These contracts farmers agree to abide by are redunkulous. I understand that Monsanto is actually creating they own version of mothers natures original hard copies but these contracts and agreements are crazy. And let me just say I am in no way a fan of GMO food and I think I should know what foods and products are GMO and or contain GMO. Why the big secret? Monsanto and these agreements do fascinate me. It almost sounds like Monsanto is keeping tabs on farmers who buy from them and will take action immediately if and when a contract is broken. I can't believe I'm reading that a farmer paid $84,456 to a company that sells seeds. I wonder if Monsanto actually counts on winning lawsuits as a part of their gross? Anyone have any idea how many farmers have been sued? Why are these farmers buying from Monsanto in the first place? Why would any farmer take the risk of being sued by a seed company? Monsanto seeds aren't cheap either so it's not like they get a good bargain for them. The only answer I can come up with is these seeds promise to produce plants who are less susceptible to disease and insects while also promising high crop yields. So I'm all for wanting to know what has GMO in it and not being a fan of Monsanto and their practices but these farmers who continue to do business with them are also to blame. Does anyone know where Monsanto stands currently with sales and farmers in general? I am aware of reading about 200,000 farmers trying to sue Monsanto so there is that :lol:
When Monsanto tried this trick with some farmers in Canada the farmers countersued and our Supreme Court sided with the farmers, so I suppose theres always a chance that your Supreme Court might do the same. But I doubt it.
Federal court I suspect is on Monsanto's side and the farmers will lose all. There is always the chance the right thing will happen and Monsanto will lose but since money does all the walking and Monsanto has lots of it those chances get slimmer and slimmer. I wonder if Monsanto spent much money on Canadian officials and such?
Yeah man shit is way fucked up! Seeds are fucking designed to replicate and be re-used, just one more example of the many ways in which the current society/government is breaking into the natural order of mother nature! Greedy corporate bastards... I've heard of a few cases where farms weren't even growing monsanto seeds, but a nearby farmer was, and that other farmer's GMO crops cross-pollinated with his, and then monsanto sued his family for 100's of thousands (I believe this may have been in Canada). Apparently monsanto actually pays people to go around and sneak into people's farms and check to see if there's any of monsanto crops on that property, and if they've bought any that year. Then they sue the shit out of them.............. Shit's way fucked up man. Farmer's are the LAST people you want to fuck with, they supply ALL the food EVERYONE eats. Buy local. Buy organic. All I can say. Know your farmers. And shit tip them once a year or some shit. Everyone used to be farmers... back when you could grow your own bud and shit just like the good old founding fathers. Those were the days... looks like they're long gone. Fuck man.... we need to save our asses, and if there's a God in heaven we could probably use his help too way things are going....
Still a valid topic on which we can keep educating ourselves... BREEDERS’ RIGHTS AND THE PRESERVATION OF CANNABIS CULTIVARS – PART 1 BREEDERS’ RIGHTS AND THE PRESERVATION OF CANNABIS CULTIVARS – PART 2
Not conspiracy theory! Farmers in California are being paid to plow up their crops. They are fined for planting crops in certain fields. They will either join the co-op or go out of business all together. More and more packing sheds and warehouses are popping up. Some are as big as a city block, others look big enough to be a small village. These small handful of corporations dictate to the farmers how it's gonna be, what they're gonna grow, and what the market will be. If you control the food, you control the masses. It's headed towards world order, and has been for many, many years. Remember when navel oranges came out? How nice it is to bite into watermelon nowadays and not have to spit out a mouthful of seeds! GMO is everywhere. We feed the rest of the world, but most of what we eat is imported. WTF is up with that!
I haven’t seen enough evidence that gmo crops are the boogie man they are made out to be. It’s a necessary evil with the population explosion to be able to help feed the worlds population. Most gmos are designed to limit input, making a farm more profitable along with decreasing the carbon footprint. As for the examples you mentioned Ron, those are hybrids, not gmo. Years of selective breeding vs splicing non-plant genes.
A farm more profitable?? everywhere these corporations came with their Hybrid F1 or GMO seeds and the chemicals going with them, farmers went from a tough lifestyle but decent standard of living to tough and miserable standard of living... This is true everywhere across the world (Europe, South America, Asia and even the US). Hundreds of thousands of farmers in India commit suicide because the soil becomes completely sterile after a decade of intense monoculture farming... It has been observed that technology-empowered permaculture has better yielding than today's chemical intensive monoculture...
Farmers net more profits growing GMOs globally, particularly in developing world | Genetic Literacy Project Less inputs equals more profit. I’m from a farming community. I’ve seen fields in rotation for decades. I’ve yet to see these “dead” fields. Every farmer from the us I know enjoys a fairly good lifestyle. But I’m sure that has more to do with subsidies and crop insurance. Farmers' suicides in India - Wikipedia The cause of suicides isn’t limited to gmo seeds. They may make up a portion, but the leading causes are crop failure and debt.
Farmers in north america and europe make a living from subsidies (it's strategic to keep crops alive and farmers active). Crop failure and debt in India are due to unfit cultivars from those corporations, combined with the need for more input... and the requirement to follow the guidelines from the WCO that the US and EU breach constantly. So Western countries subsidize farmers while it's contrary to WCO rules, but Asia, South American and African farmers do have to comply with those rules. The result is unfair competition, developing countries flooded with our subsidized products and miserable farmers in those countries (increasingly dependant on the supply from the US and EU). Soils in North America, Europe and now Asia are a LOT LESS fertile than they used to be a few decades ago, hence the growing dependency on fertilizers. Africa is now the only fertile soil land available and next on the list of lands to conquer by those corporations... Google "The seed war" or "the world according to monsanto"