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Any source on the "Monsanto lobbying against seed-banks"? Your down votes may be because of that, because your sentence looks a bit like the typical uneducated

by maaaats 12y ago

Any source on the "Monsanto lobbying against seed-banks"? Your down votes may be because of that, because your sentence looks a bit like the typical uneducated anti-gmo/monsanto hate.

pizza234 12y ago
Most likely, he refers to the 2004 seed act: http://www.eldis.org/go/home&id=18407&type=Document http://www.eldis.org/go/home&id=18407&type=Document which has been used against at least one seed bank. At a quick glance, it indeed lends itself very well to corporatocratic usages. Having said that though, it's quite unsettling how there is much blogging about "monsanto lobbying against seed banks", without absolutely any reference which is not word of mouth.
- mcv 12y ago
  Well, it's not like Monsanto is going to publish press releases about their lobbying efforts.
  - bsdshepherd 12y ago
    They don't have to. https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000055&year=2008 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000005... The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real.
    - dubfan 12y ago
      Yes, Monsanto lobbies, just like every other relatively large company in this country. > The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real. I'm sorry, but this sounds like tin foil hat nonsense. Care to substantiate that?
- dubfan 12y ago
  "Author: V. Shiva" The link to the full paper isn't working but if that is who I think it is (Vandana Shiva) I'd take that paper with a massive grain of gluten-free sea salt. She's the one responsible for the Indian farmer suicide myth, as well as a bunch of other complete nonsense.
  - bsdshepherd 12y ago
    > farmer suicide myth We call it "taking the pipe". I'll be joining others in the complete nonsense in less than two years.
  - jrkelly 12y ago
    The New Yorker finally stepped up to the plate on calling out her myths recently: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt
- bsdshepherd 12y ago
  Would the Wall Street Journal be sufficient? http://online.wsj.com/articles/gardeners-on-alert-as-pennsylvania-targets-risks-of-seed-exchanges-1408626463 http://online.wsj.com/articles/gardeners-on-alert-as-pennsyl... As for word of mouth, until John Deere adds a repeater onto their tractors it's what we have to work with. I'd use my Chromebook, but Google's networking layer in Javascript continues to remain broken.

by maaaats 12y ago

Any source on the "Monsanto lobbying against seed-banks"? Your down votes may be because of that, because your sentence looks a bit like the typical uneducated anti-gmo/monsanto hate.

pizza234 12y ago

Most likely, he refers to the 2004 seed act: http://www.eldis.org/go/home&id=18407&type=Document http://www.eldis.org/go/home&id=18407&type=Document which has been used against at least one seed bank. At a quick glance, it indeed lends itself very well to corporatocratic usages. Having said that though, it's quite unsettling how there is much blogging about "monsanto lobbying against seed banks", without absolutely any reference which is not word of mouth.

mcv 12y ago
Well, it's not like Monsanto is going to publish press releases about their lobbying efforts.
- bsdshepherd 12y ago
  They don't have to. https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000055&year=2008 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000005... The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real.
  - dubfan 12y ago
    Yes, Monsanto lobbies, just like every other relatively large company in this country. > The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real. I'm sorry, but this sounds like tin foil hat nonsense. Care to substantiate that?
dubfan 12y ago
"Author: V. Shiva" The link to the full paper isn't working but if that is who I think it is (Vandana Shiva) I'd take that paper with a massive grain of gluten-free sea salt. She's the one responsible for the Indian farmer suicide myth, as well as a bunch of other complete nonsense.
- bsdshepherd 12y ago
  > farmer suicide myth We call it "taking the pipe". I'll be joining others in the complete nonsense in less than two years.
- jrkelly 12y ago
  The New Yorker finally stepped up to the plate on calling out her myths recently: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt
bsdshepherd 12y ago
Would the Wall Street Journal be sufficient? http://online.wsj.com/articles/gardeners-on-alert-as-pennsylvania-targets-risks-of-seed-exchanges-1408626463 http://online.wsj.com/articles/gardeners-on-alert-as-pennsyl... As for word of mouth, until John Deere adds a repeater onto their tractors it's what we have to work with. I'd use my Chromebook, but Google's networking layer in Javascript continues to remain broken.