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A lot of people consider it a villian of sorts. Whether those perceptions have merit is a matter for another discussion...
by sjs382 8y ago
A lot of people consider it a villian of sorts.
Whether those perceptions have merit is a matter for another discussion...
- sova 8y agoBullying farmers into buying your custom (patented) seeds, suing others when seeds blow into their farmland for patent infringement, ensuring farmers in South America and remote regions need to rely on your seeds and your pesticides for yields... The list is endless. I don't really see how one could modestly even intimate that those perceptions have no merit, if you have been paying attention to how they conduct business and how they've been patenting natural processes it's a very cut-and-dry matter. Shady is shady no matter what you rebrand yourself.
- stevehawk 8y agoThe last time I read up on that.. Most of the farmers were lying. They had in fact been using the seed illegally.
- sova 8y ago"Using the seed illegally" -- have we all gone mad?
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- seattle_spring 8y agoHalf of the shit you just said is a complete myth. Please consider getting your information from places other than "Natural News" and inflammatory documentaries.
- rmason 8y agoI worked in the fertilizer business as an agronomist when Roundup Ready seeds were introduced. Farmers weren't bullied, they purchased because doing so made them more money. I watched many ag companies introduce products with large marketing pushes that provided too little benefit to farmers and they all failed. Farmers tried these products on a small scale, saw there was too little benefit to them and stopped purchasing. I followed the legal case of Percy Schmeiser and others. They all lost in a battle that went all the way to the US Supreme Court. There is no way that seed blowing over a fence line would lead to a crop that was 95-98% pure Roundup resistant seed, it's physically impossible. The farmers in question were simply cheating and got caught.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y ago> suing others when seeds blow into their farmland for patent infringement This never happened. Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-five-myths-of-genetically-modified-seeds-busted https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/to...