Monsanto antitrust

[Chris Fleming]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Monsanto- ... 4.html?x=0

Glad to see this kind of story come out. This is a very evil company.

Good documentary about them:

[Michael]

Monsanto are the people who brought you Agent Orange, PCB's, aspartame, rBGH (Bovine Growth Hormone), and untested genetically modified foods.

Get the documentary on DVD.

[Chris Fleming]

Including all that, I find their methods of spreading their GMO foods especially loathsome. From untested and scantly reviewed yet somehow passed along (due to lobbying congress) science to the squeezing out farmers who DON'T want to buy their products, they seem set on owning food. From the documentary, their methods are such that the GMO crops spread to non modified farms even if those farmers want nothing to do with them. Plant pollen spreads and you end up with regular crops that won't grow anymore. This leads to people becoming dependent on a company that seeks to put patents on seeds.

[ashe]

It's too late now. People have been screaming about this forever and were written off as hippies and extremests. They and Grumman and Lockheed Martin have gotten such a strangle hold on the system I don't think there's a lot we can do short of hoping for a 'day after tomorrow' or 'post man' type event to even the playing field.