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Skybird · 09-19-12, 10:29 AM

One of my most favourite companies making headlines again.

German:
http://www.welt.de/gesundheit/articl...l-frueher.html

English
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...m_hp_ref=green

Well, hints for disease and higher mortality when basing food consumption on genetically modified food, have slowly mounted over the past years.

Adding to these findings Monsanto's often illustrated criminal policies of bullying, intimidating and sueing-to-death farmers, and intentiuonally infesting clean fields of farmers with their seeds and then demanding them to pay licence fees, make a nice reminder for me why I like these gangsters so very much.

Over 97% of all seeds that has been used by human farmers until 60 years ago, have been removed and send into the abyss of extinction, in order to replace them with designer-seeds that do not live a second season, so that farmers must buy them new every year. The bio-diversity and thus redundance of natural crop seeds that gets farmed by humans has been reduced by a factor of almost 30.

Intentionally.

That is a high risk strategy, to put it mildly.

09-19-12, 10:29 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Monsanto offering the means to tackle global overpopulation? One of my most favourite companies making headlines again. German: http://www.welt.de/gesundheit/articl...l-frueher.html English http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...m_hp_ref=green Well, hints for disease and higher mortality when basing food consumption on genetically modified food, have slowly mounted over the past years. Adding to these findings Monsanto's often illustrated criminal policies of bullying, intimidating and sueing-to-death farmers, and intentiuonally infesting clean fields of farmers with their seeds and then demanding them to pay licence fees, make a nice reminder for me why I like these gangsters so very much. Over 97% of all seeds that has been used by human farmers until 60 years ago, have been removed and send into the abyss of extinction, in order to replace them with designer-seeds that do not live a second season, so that farmers must buy them new every year. The bio-diversity and thus redundance of natural crop seeds that gets farmed by humans has been reduced by a factor of almost 30. Intentionally. That is a high risk strategy, to put it mildly. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.