Michele Obama Partners with Monsatan!!!

[deansayso]

Monsanto offers a few things to the market place. Corn, Soybeans, a couple chemicals. They are not a diverse company, they just happened to stumble upon roundup and bought out one of the best seed corn companies. They are only doing this for the PR and Mrs. O is doing it for some cash.

I think it's hypocritical because of the push to label GMOs. Monsanto does not sell a single seed that isn't genetically modified.

[GroundSupport]

Monsanto offers a few things to the market place. Corn, Soybeans, a couple chemicals. They are not a diverse company, they just happened to stumble upon roundup and bought out one of the best seed corn companies. They are only doing this for the PR and Mrs. O is doing it for some cash.

I think it's hypocritical because of the push to label GMOs. Monsanto does not sell a single seed that isn't genetically modified.

Not to mention they pretty much shut down all farmers who refuse to use their seed. There has been cases that wind would blow their seed from adjacent fields onto fields of farmers who refuse to use their seed. The Monsanto sues the dump trucks out of that said farmer and either shuts him down, or get's him to use their seed.

Easily one the most of the evil companies in the US.

[deansayso]

Not to mention they pretty much shut down all farmers who refuse to use their seed. There has been cases that wind would blow their seed from adjacent fields onto fields of farmers who refuse to use their seed. The Monsanto sues the dump trucks out of that said farmer and either shuts him down, or get's him to use their seed.

Easily one the most of the evil companies in the US.

Yeah but they have every right to do that. The plants they create are patented or branded. Don't listen to the sap stories from these farmers. There are companies out there that sell just straight conventional corn and soybeans. These farmers just don't want to pay 150 bucks a bag for corn and 40 for beans when they can pull them out of the bin for 3 and 11.50 bucks a bag right now. They try and get away with planting GMO soybeans one year and store them over winter and plant that patented seed.

[GroundSupport]

Yeah but they have every right to do that. The plants they create are patented or branded. Don't listen to the sap stories from these farmers. There are companies out there that sell just straight conventional corn and soybeans. These farmers just don't want to pay 150 bucks a bag for corn and 40 for beans when they can pull them out of the bin for 3 and 11.50 bucks a bag right now. They try and get away with planting GMO soybeans one year and store them over winter and plant that patented seed.

Uh that isn't the case with the farmer in the video. Their seed blew onto his field. They sued him for using the seed that he didn't acquire. He didn't want the GMO seeds period. His seed of 50 years was destroyed. Life longs work.

So he was sued, then he counter sued and Monsanto had him affraid for their life because they tried to play bully.

[deansayso]

Uh that isn't the case with the farmer in the video. Their seed blew onto his field. They sued him for using the seed that he didn't acquire. He didn't want the GMO seeds period. His seed of 50 years was destroyed. Life longs work.

So he was sued, then he counter sued and Monsanto had him affraid for their life because they tried to play bully.

He's about the only one with a situation like this. His soybeans were cross pollinated with round up ready soybeans planted next door. This has likely been going on since the gene first came out. Kind of a sticky situation for both sides.
Most people who get it in trouble with monsanto is because they are replanting patented seed.

[GroundSupport]

He's about the only one with a situation like this. His soybeans were cross pollinated with round up ready soybeans planted next door. This has likely been going on since the gene first came out. Kind of a sticky situation for both sides.
Most people who get it in trouble with monsanto is because they are replanting patented seed.

He's not the only one though. That's the thing. He's just one that didn't bow down to them.

[deansayso]

He's not the only one though. That's the thing. He's just one that didn't bow down to them.

True, but there aren't that many. Your cost savings for saving seed aren't enough to make it worth it. With new genetics and seed treatments you are only behind the latest technology as well. Because we have been mono-cropping for the last 50 years there is resistance to certain traits. Without the newest traits you could have complete crop failure.

[Wickabee]

So here we have a company maximizing its profits in, really, no different a way that McDonald's or Wal-Mart, and big business / free market supporters are against them?

[duane1969]

Michelle Obama's "healthy meals" idea is a joke. Our Director of Food Services is an Obama fan and has designed our county school's food program to meet Obama guidelines. The food is disgusting. It is so bad that last year one of our high schools staged a sit-in during lunch to protest. Many of the kids in our community come from poverty-stricken homes and the only meal they get that day will be the school breakfast and lunch and it is so nasty that they won't eat it. I can't blame them...a low-fat hotdog on an all wheat bun with no ketchup allowed sounds pretty disgusting to me.