Monsanto will single-handedly destroy agriculture in North America, and will profit handsomely while doing it. And they will have the gratitude of the US government and their vested interests for doing so. See zimbabwe, ethiopia, south africa, soviet era russia, china, and every other despot run third world shithole as an example.
Those who control the food, control the country. Famine is a powerful weapon.
No, International Agriculture Corporations are in the process of destroying North American Agriculture. They have lots of help from anti-competition laws and corporations. Both on the technology and marketing sides of AG production.
They are sure trying but there are lots of people waking up. Thanks for the post!
Monsanto is what happens when you get a state sponsored monopoly...
The farm bill(s) only feeds the individual farmers chicken feed while Big State Sponsored Agribusinesses like Monsanto get all sorts of slop shoved into their troughs.
Meanwhile Medium and small sized LOCAL agribusinesses get ran out of business or are gobbled up BY Monsanto and other state sponsored “Big-Agro”.
Remember what John D Rockefeller said: “Competition is a sin”
It is all part of a game the big boys play with government to keep the upstart medium and median-large upstarts at arms length so they can continue their hold on power.
If they were solely using good business practices and good products and delivering a customer’s needs to stay #1 that is an admirable thing. If they are are using collusion with the government to keep their competition at bay and poisoning the seeds of entrepreneurship through regulations that they have lobbied for.
Then that is simple treason against the free market system.
uh, Zimbabwe and a lot of other third world countries don’t allow modern GM foods. That’s why they were starving. Ditto for much of Africa, where our “greens” (including church NGO’s) oppose GM food and anything that smacks of modern agriculture.
And a lot of the complaints ignore that without the green revolution, we’d have suffered all the stuff predicted by the Population bomb thirty years ago.
Luckily, China is busy buying up lots of under utilized land in many African countries and using lots of fertilizer, irrigation, GM food and herbicides so they can export grain back to China to feed their growing middle class, who no longer want to live on a bowl of rice with a few fish every day.