Most countries are trying to keep our gmo stuff out. lol
Because it’s cheaper to steal than to do the research for yourself.
Seeing how I don’t believe in Patented seeds and have a particular animosity towards Monsanto I can loudly proclaim that I don’t care. The more food for the world the merrier.
They could just buy them, the seed stocks used by the hybrid seed corn companies do this all the time - they buy the inbred parent seed from the breeding farms (usually maintained by the Land Grant University of any of the participating states), where the pure lines are kept, then the seed is planted in “male” and “female” rows when grown to produce the F1 hybrid seed corn. The F1 crop does NOT breed true when planted to produce the F2 generation, nor is it a good example of the hybrid qualities being sought.
China however, isn’t scared of shadows. They want to eat.
Heck, we’ve been selling them our balance sheet in order to prop up our income statement for decades.
Some day we should just send China a bill for a trillion or two and cancel any US debt they hold. Their violations of US patents and copyrights and all sorts of product counterfeiting would easily run into the trillions over the past several decades.
A point has been made to me about GMO
How many people have died from malnutrition?
How many people have died from GMO?
Kinda favors GMO, doesn’t it?
Stupid.
Set up an actual farm and order the seeds.
Idiots.
Better be nice to the chicoms, if they cut off all of those container ships headed to our shores, most of the industry and sales in the US will grind to a halt. That’s what happens when you give all of your manufacturing, technology, and money to a communist nation.
It's not all about GMO. These corn seed companies sell a lot of non-GMO hybrids that have special seed traits such as resistance to certain pesticides and weed killers.
These seed traits are not the product of GMO technology, but of plant breeding.
I know for a fact, for example, the Monsano's Dekalb corn seeds (which are not GMO) are major sellers, if not market leaders, in certain regions because they increase yield by 20-30 bushels per acre over other brands.
Farmers pay some 10% more per bag of Dekalb than for the competing seeds because of its productivity.
He should have stopped at the local co-op like the farmers do and bought some......
The Chinese have been doing this for years. Their diplomatic staff successfully smuggled out branch cuttings from Pacific Rose apples, a successful apple developed in New Zealand. See:
http://adamapples.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-zealand-apple-budwood-theft.html
Pacific Rose was the one involved in the ‘underpants’ saga. A visiting Chinese delegation were stopped at by customs as the airport as they left NZ. The ones without diplomatic protection were searched and quite literally had their undergarments stuffed with Pacific Rose budwood. Unfortunately the ones with diplomatic protection had equally bulging pants.
The theft apparently took place in the spring of 1997, a date that is a few years too early for the online archive of the New Zealand Herald. The only reference I could find to this incident online is from this report from a New Zealand - based trade-watchdog group:
In April, Opposition MPs and pip-fruit industry representatives lambasted the Government over its decision not to prosecute a visiting Chinese horticultural delegation after a foiled attempt to steal 15 apple budwood cuttings. Was this “theft” a genuine mistake, some asked - or a case of industrial espionage which could have seriously threatened New Zealand’s $1.6 billion horticulture export industry?
China will steal anything of value it can get its hands on, especially if its related to agriculture, technology or energy.
The corn is all three.
The reason is the same in both cases: it is superior to the product they produce.
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