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it is NOT trivial if you are a farmer. Monsanto goes to great lengths to deny farmers the right to generate their own seed...to the point of hiring private investigators and lawyers to intimidate guys who own seed cleaning equipment.

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Exactly!!!  If you watch the video LiquidSmoke, you will see that.  Not trivial in the least!  It's that mentality that allows companies like Monsanto to do whatever they want and end up fucking us in the end! 
How is it trivial when they are bankrupting and taking EVERYTHING away from generational farmers for "allegedly" violating their patents on seed?  For trespassing on their property so the gene police can get these "genetic reports" that are used against the farmers in court to sue them for everything they have?
How is it trivial that b/c of Monsanto, you are effectively causing us to create monocultures of cash crops which weakens said crops b/c they are unable to defend themselves NATURALLY against pests/environmental problems, which also plays into their bottom line... ***enter their pesticides**** sold and used to combat these deficiencies that THEIR monocultures have created.  Not to mention the harm that these chemicals do to the ground/ground water and US!!!!

  Need I continue?!?!??!

@LiquidSmoke  Well here's some news articles to help you out w/ that...

http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/09/monsanto-denies-superinsect-science
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/mexican-trial-of-gm-maize-stirs-debate.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/04/05/3182831.htm?WT.mc_id=science_twitterfeed_enviro&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+abcscience_enviro+%28Environment+news+and+features%2C+from+ABC+Science%29
http://www.naturalnews.com/033216_GMO_contamination_lawsuits.html#ixzz1Tx53JlvN


Similar Movies regarding Monsanto:

Food Inc.

Future of Food

The World According to Monsanto

Food Matters


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Mississippi and Iowa, two big farm states, were recently tested for glyphosate levels in the air and water. Researchers found the key ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide in every stream sample tested, Scientific American reports.

The magazine quotes Paul Capel, environmental chemist and head of the agricultural chemicals team at the U.S. Geological Survey Office, saying: "It is out there in significant levels. It is out there consistently."

But Capel said more tests were needed to determine how harmful the chemical, glyphosate, might be to people and animals.

Real-Life Examples Speak For Themselves
However, while a politically-guided agency needs more tests—and probably more tests after that—to make a public statement regarding the health effects of the chemical, some people don't need tests to be sure what those effects are.

People like Viviana Peralta in San Jorge, Argentina. Peralta's baby daughter suffers acute asthma attacks every time a crop duster sprays herbicides and pesticides near her house, which sits in an agriculture-rich province 600 kilometers from Buenos Aires.

A Le Monde story tells of Peralta's experiences, saying that she eventually made the connection between her daughter's asthma attacks and the chemical sprayings—a suspicion that a pediatrician would later confirm. Glyphosate was found present in Ailen's blood.

Le Monde reports more about the town of San Jorge:

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  In San Jorge, cancer rates have spiked 30% in the past 10 years. Residents say that following a crop dusting, their lips turn blue and their tongues swell. Chickens die. Dogs and cats shed their hair. Bees disappear and birds become scarce.

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    In the province of Chaco, which borders Paraguay, a study carried out over the past 10 years in a town called La Leonesa suggests that cancer rates have tripled while the incidence of malformations has quadrupled. The situation has created tensions between residents and rice farmers, who use glyphosate and spray from airplanes...

    Andres Carrasco, an embryologist from the University of Buenos Aires, published a study in late 2010 demonstrating the toxic effects glyphosate can have on amphibian embryos. His work has earned him no shortage of enemies. He was physically attacked on a visit to La Leonesa and the conference he was scheduled to give there was canceled.

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It's just one business' attempt at taking over the niche of another's.  That's all.

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Under U.S. patent law, a farmer commits an offense even if they unknowingly plant Monsanto's seeds without purchasing them from the company. Other countries have similar laws.

In the well-known case of Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser, pollen from a neighbour's GE canola fields and seeds that blew off trucks on their way to a processing plant ended up contaminating his fields with Monsanto's genetics.

The trial court ruled that no matter how the GE plants got there, Schmeiser had infringed on Monsanto's legal rights when he harvested and sold his crop. After a six-year legal battle, Canada's Supreme Court ruled that while Schmeiser had technically infringed on Monsanto's patent, he did not have to pay any penalties.

Schmeiser, who spoke at last year's World Social Forum in India, says it cost 400,000 dollars to defend himself.

"Monsanto should held legally responsible for the contamination," he said.

Another North Dakota farmer, Tom Wiley, explains the situation this way: "Farmers are being sued for having GMOs on their property that they did not buy, do not want, will not use and cannot sell."

"It's a corporation out of control," says Andrew Kimbrell, the executive director of CFS.

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It's just one business' attempt at taking over the niche of another's.  That's all.

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Yep, but  they bamboozled the people who wrote the legislation that governs this shit and it appears the courts are in their pockets too. Farmers who show up with Monsanto genetics in the crops should be suing Monsanto for trespassing. Monsanto made farm crop genetics property and their cash cow is straying onto others property and the courts are coddling Monsanto.

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It's just one business' attempt at taking over the niche of another's.  That's all.

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LiquidSmoke said:
I retract what I said previously.


I thought this was more of that "organic food is superior" mumbo jumbo.

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coolio. i like you now.

but yea, this should be in the political forum....