Harvest of Fear: Monsanto Corp. (Trees And Things)

HidingFromGoro: citation needed

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:41:25 EST

Nope, I can't recommend an alternative company with exclusive rights to the Roundup-Ready Gene or the Terminator Gene. Guess I'm finished- you hit it out of the park on this one, champ.

And the Indian kids handling pesticides? I've go

thefadd: Re: Wikipedia

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:55:42 EST

Took some rooting. It turns out that for whatever reason Monsanto doesn't want farmers saving its seeds from one season to the next. My uneducated guess would be that between the profits and the continual genetic modification the company has relatively leg

profwhat: Wikipedia

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:08:19 EST

The "first link" is to Wikipedia, and it has a big fat "[citation needed]" right after the sentence that mentions the prison sentence. I call BS on this -- I can't imagine how a civil case "turned into" a criminal prosecution, or how patent infringem

HidingFromGoro: Re: "Gestapo?"

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:40:54 EST

The very first link mentions an 8-month prison sentence for one farmer. And even discounting the patent suits or GM debate there's still the toxic waste dumping and child labor issues. I mean, using children in India to handle pesticides?

thefadd: Re: "Gestapo?"

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:22:38 EST

It's not like they are assisting in genocide, here.

They're not? What about their business practices in India that have left whole villages cancer ravaged.

They have a patent. They sue people for infringing the patent.

profwhat: "Gestapo?"

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:52:09 EST
Calling them "Gestapo" or "Mafia" seems pretty extreme. They have a patent. They sue people for infringing the patent. The people they are suing are small fry. That's questionable, but... Gestapo? It's not like they are assist

skeeter1: Re: Harvest of Fear: Monsanto Corp.

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:03:18 EST
Monsanto has been an evil beast for many years. I doubt they'll come looking for me and my little garden of tomatoes, kohlrabi, and herbs. None of the seeds came from Monsanto, and if the tomatoes get cross-pollinated with Monsanto pollen, well