Posted on 06/21/2013 6:09:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How about they take a whack at ethonol too while they were at it.
What about all the money the federal government has been paying to farmers, to NOT grow specific crops, every year?
As far as “agri-business” lobbyists go, any and all of them connected with the name Monsanto, should be brought up on monopoly charges, RICO charges, and treason.
How should they do that?
How will the ten million acre family farm survive now?
The lobbyists got screwed. Gotta love it.
In my dreams, by putting the next Iowa caucus in July 2016.
Reduce or get rid of the ethonol subsidies....I detest using food material for fuels.
If the government were to eliminate all direct agriculture production subsides, fine. But that wouldn't alter the relative value of the end products in which corn is used.
And farmers should be automatically entitled to recompense FROM Monsanto when Monsanto’s genetics pollutes the farmers’ fields -
not the other way around.
A rose is a rose argument....so they hid the ethonol subsidy in the Renewable Fuel Standard requiring so much of the fuel be composed of mostly corn. You are right, there is no ethonol per se subsidy.
The Renewable Fuel Standard should be repealed (as should all other laws mandating American citizens to engage in, or not engage in, any activity against their will).
The problem, is that Monsanto’s genetics don’t pollute a neighboring field by accident.
Wow. I posted an anti-Monsanto comment on a thread yesterday and got attacked by three FReepers. I made a tongue-in-cheek comment about how the few Monsanto loving FReepers must work for them and one FReeper claimed to be a psychologist and told be I was crazy and another agreed.
For you curiosity: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3033358/posts
They’re trying to control the majority of food production...
Monsanto thinks they’re getting a monopoly,
but the leftists have a more Malthusian intent.
Monsanto doesn’t control any food production. They happened to isolate a genetic characteristic that allowed farmers to raise, especially corn and soybeans, in a far more economic and environmentally benign fashion than previously possible. Given the choice in the marketplace, farmers universally adopted the Monsanto technology. Some farmers tried to adopt it without paying for it and got caught.
My late brother-in-law often joked that the only piece of essential farm equipment was a hat so the farmer didn’t get sunburned going to the mailbox to get their government check.
So... how long you been working there at Monsanto?
Actually, I’m a farmer.
translation: We paid yinz guys for a pork-laden farm bill, and by gawd yinz are gonna GIVE us a pork-laden farm bill!
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