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Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)

24 pointsby 2h agovanityfair.com
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1h agoHN ↗

Where does Monsanto stand now? It’s been many years since HackerNews was AstroTurfed by them.

34m agoHN ↗

Monsanto was bought by Bayer who kept the products and killed off the name.

21m agoHN ↗

I just found out that farmers spray enough of the chems to kill all the plants off so they can be harvested at the same time. They aren't applying it just to grow, they then pump it full of them and then we eat that. No wonder why people are getting sick from it.

28m agoHN ↗

I can't wait for all the usual Monsanto fanboys to start popping up with comments that show how wildly ignorant they are, with comments like "we need this tech to feed everyone!"

1)Hunger is entirely artificial and is a problem of US farm bill policy and trade policy (not to mention using food to produce fuel that provides less energy than the energy required to grow it.) We pay farmers to grow and then till the food into the ground. Or to ship it to a warehouse where it rots. Massive amounts of food are thrown away by supermarkets. The list goes on.

2)European farmers, who cannot use Roundup or a large swath of other pesticides and herbicides, *have greater per-acre productivity.

28m agoHN ↗

These stories have all basically been debunked. Monsanto did sue farmers. But they did so in cases where they had evidence that those farmers were not only planting IP-encumbered seeds, but also spraying them with Roundup. You can't do that accidentally: if your seeds aren't genetically modified, Roundup kills your crop.

17m agoHN ↗

The entire concept of IP-encumbered seeds is cruel and dangerous.

4m agoHN ↗

Why, because without IP encumbrance farmers would be developing their own glyphosate-resistant shikimic acid pathway enzymes?