Posted on 04/17/2009 9:28:02 AM PDT by Squidpup
transpiration = Transportation (DOT)
But there will be depts of transpiration and respiration in our future.
Why do you say it is a monopoly. As I understand it, they do have competitors—Dow/Pioneer for one.
For now. Think Thinsulate.
My 5th grade teacher told us there would new be anything better than goosedown. My mother was told the atom would never be split.
The problem is, if you can produce a variety of food in the marketplace that doesn’t seed, for whatever reason and these varieties become the standard...what are you left to fall back on should something like this happen? If “natural” and yes I am quoting that because while not bioengineered, no modern cultivate crop ios from from having been manipulated by human intervention at some point along the way, plants aren’t being grown, you don’t have seed for the next year.
No idea what would happen on a commercial level, but I keep hearing ads for Heirloom seeds & I bought some Heirloom tomatoeslast year. Yum.
According to the source, Monsanto is alreasdy compensating the farmers. By doing so they are acknowledging fault, so if they try to stiff anyone a lawsuit against them will be open and shut.
and upon cross pollination with local varieties... the seedlessness spreads and within a few generations, you have crops that won’t produce more seeds.
at which point, famine is within sight
Again, I would have misgivings about doing any business where “village elders” make the law.
bttt
So far I haven’t been impressed!
The gsins in agriculture are pretty small so far, in large part because we suffer from chronic overproduction.
“The seedless cobs show no sign of disease or any kind of fungus. They just have very few seeds, often none at all.”
RUH ROH!
;-)
“They just have to market it as “new diet corn”!”
Sell it to the Muslims as ‘organic toilet paper’.
With luck, a bidding war between Mad Mo’s followers and local Hippy types might break out.
Good thought! :)
Isn’t it great that this is what they want to do to us here in America too?
Okay,,, a couple of comments:
1) Monsanto also sells seed that doesn’t carry the ‘Terminator’ Gene,, and I didn’t read anything that indicated this seed carried that gene.
2) Corn seed is not treated with fertilizer before it is planted. Fertilizer is applied to the SOIL prior to planting the seed.
3) Corn is polinated, with the assistance of BREEZE, not Bees, when the pollen from the tassle settles onto the silks which emerge from the ear.
4) High temps at the time of polination is not a desirable situation, as the high heat interfers with polination.
I am not an agronomist. But my youngest son is. He and his father are both CCA’s (Certified Crop Advisors). I’ve been farming for 45 years, and know just a little bit about how things work in a cornfield.
There is definitely MORE TO THIS STORY than what is being reported in this article.
Ignorant whacknut with a very clear and obvious agenda.
So would I. What does that have to do with a centralized state like South Africa?
“Monsanto is the devil.”
Oh really? I just thot they were a publically held corporation—i.e. MON, based in St. Louis.
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No, Monsanto really is the devil.
SA is barely one step removed.
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