Posted on 04/17/2009 9:28:02 AM PDT by Squidpup
No, Monsanto really is the devil.
Central Planning.
you don’t have seed for the next year.
To understand the result, one only needs consider the
Terror Famine in Ukraine during the 1930s , the government
confiscated all the grain including that used as seed.
Millions of people starved.
How would Monsanto compensate for that??
Thanks for a reasoned analysis.
There are lots of delusional comments on this thread. Anyone who knows nothing about seedcorn could be easily sucked into believing this misinformation.
Bah. Marian Mayet is an ignorant savage hugga bugga-merchant. Monsanto said they will make good f'r chrissakes. What do these witch doctors want anyway? Six year old virgins to cure AIDS with?
People get panicked by weird science fiction "franken-food" fantasies. Don't worry, Killer tomatoes don't really exist.
Single-generation seed.
Augie, I don’t understand why you are saying Monsanto=devil=single-generation seeds.
Many of the plants you buy at Walmart, K-mart, Home Depot, etc. are hybrids, which are single-generation seeds.
Does that make every hybrid seed company the devil in your opinion? That would include Pioneer, Northern King, Burpee to name a few.
Like pharmaceutcal companies, seed companies spend millions on research and like any other company, they don’t want their patents stolen & research given away for free, so why would they allow for farmers to buy the hybrid seed and then harvest seed and plant free next year?
Farmers are welcome to buy heirloom seed, but they don’t have the engineered resistance to drought, insects, disease, etc. like hybrids.
I like to garden and I use both hybrid and heirloom & I just budget to buy new hybrid seed as I need it. I do like hybrids because I know what I am getting & can get fast growing, seedless, big/small, etc.
Would you really want the GOVERNMENT in charge of seed production and distribution? Because if you are opposed to seed companies being in charge, that is the alternative :(
Augie doesn't understand, either. That's the problem.
Ruh-roh!
(w.r.t. upcoming Congressional restrictions on "non-govt. approved" farming in the US).
Cheers!
So they really didn't get little Timmy? That's a relief.
I have read articles on studies that indicate that this is happening. They even give the percentages of genes being replaced.
the seedlessness spreads and within a few generations, you have crops that won’t produce more seeds.
I haven't read of this yet, but who knows ? Perhaps just lower crop yields to start, as not all seeds would have the flawed genes.
at which point, famine is within sight
Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Perhaps this is the means by which is happens.
Totally Man Made.
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