Comments on: Agricultural Giant Battles Small Farmers

Monsanto Goes To Great Lengths To Protect Its Patents On Genetically Modified Crops

[missingamerica]

lollll...meanwhile, what of the sons and daughters of those same small farmers that the corporations abuse while the Republicans avert their eyes?

They happily go off to fight a war that was created to enrich the same corporations that will later oppress them in turn, if they survive, and all for "God and Country".

[apprxam]

Monsanto is the example of international hegemony that the rest of the world fears. Selling "suicide" to poor, underdeveloped countries, perpetually dependent on this company''s aegis.

Ken Lay pulled that *** with the Indian government regarding those power plants they built, but didn''t need. The US Commerce dept pushed complaints to the WTO when some African countries and the EU wouldn''t allow their "franken seeds'' to be planted for fear of windblown contamination. This is precisely the type of heavy handed tactics foreign nations resent.

Now it''s the American family farmer, with the help of Congress and various state legislatures that grab subsidies meant or believed to be for small farms.

[apprxam]

Yeah....Brewster, ***?

[apprxam]

This is the door left opened by the US Supreme Court, Reaganomics and the privatization of the public domain.

Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, CLINTON, Bush and CLINTON II all cater to the rich and continues to give away even nature: Spectrum (airwaves), Gemones, seeds.

Privatized things such as: water, electricity, mountain-tops in W.VA.

Public services: Prisons, military, Roads, Social Security (Coming soon), disaster recovery (Katrina)

The making of money by creating money, usary interest rates, comodification of private information.

NOTHING is sacred, everything is for sale.

TAKE BACK AMERICA, America!

[liberalme]

The almighty dollar (now worth about 49 cents) has these big corporation stomping on the very lives that got them started. They want the whole pie the greedy pompus empty suit Ba$tards!

I shop very carefully now, Nike is off the list completely-I will not buy produce grown outside the country--I can grow my own and I will not pay top dollar for anything made out of this country, I will not support sweat shop labor.

We are (in number) larger than they are, if our grandparents could work, grow a garden, and can their own food, we need to get off our lazy A$$es and do the same thing--or shut up and keep these fat cats in a comfort zone none of us can ever imagine!

[actornaught]

Posted by bretster7 at 04:16 PM : Apr 27, 2008

Somehow, in some sick way, this one post shows you don''t have the slightest idea that you''re the worst kind of hypocrite.

[cbutler69]

Sounds like these farmers that are being harrassed by Monsanto should get together and file a class action lawsuit against them. Nobody has the right to check my bank account without my persmission, I dont care who they are. They arent government so they dont have the right to demand anything especially since you arent using there product. What kind of idiots are they? Would make me think twice about useing there stuff for anything.

[peaches1957-2009]

This is nothing new. Monsanto is determined that everyone - from 5,000-acre American farmers to the dirt farmer in Ethiopia - be dependent on their genetically engineered seed. This seed is also famous for killing bees, as they try to pollinate the flowers from genetically manipulated seed. No one knows what end result will occur from the genetically manipulated seed; what harm it could cause by ingestion. Monsanto gives it away free the first time, just like a dealer with a new crack addict - and then charges outrageous prices afterwards. Real growers know - Monsanto is about profit, not about quality. Hilary Clinton used to represent them, after all... That should be all you need to know about smarmy and underhanded, deceitful behavior.

[nick32708]

These monsters (Dupont and Monsanto) got out of control. This is a great danger to the biodiversity of plants. One step towards dooms day. I am happy, i won''t be alive to see that.

[tucano2]

Frankenfood will fail, and there will NOT be any "natural" foods available. The usual chaos and starvation will result.