list of MONSANTO GMO companies

magerum

To the original poster -- you do understand that everything you eat has been genetically modified over the last 2000 years or so of farming and domestication don't you? Or perhaps its just "evil" corporations that you dislike.

As you said tinfoil meet head -- head meet tinfoil.

Respectfully, this is a common misperception. There is a VAST difference between genetic engineering and selective breeding.

2000 years ago we most certainly did not have the capacity to splice the gene of a spider into a goat to produce silk in its milk. Historically, humans have used *selective breeding* in an attempt to have the most positive traits of two CLOSELY RELATED organisms (different species of corn, cattle, etc.) come forward in the resulting offspring. We've done that here for years on our farm with the livestock. It's done through selective breeding, be it through the "regular" means, cross-pollination, artificial insemination, etc. This form of production can be reproduced in nature.

Genetic engineering, on the other hand, splices DNA from several unrelated organisms into embryotic tissue with a small percentage of these attempts actually surviving. NOT a form of production reproducible in nature. And this is more than crossing animal DNA, we're also talking combining animal and/or plant DNA with DNA from viruses & bacteria ... several genetic combinations at a time ...

The part that truly worries me are the consequences of these GM crops now appearing in the form of super resistant weeds. So much for RoundUp ready fields! A vicious cycle. This is akin to overuse of antibiotics developing a super-strain of antibiotic resistant diseases.

As for the Monsanto/farmer controversy. The current lawsuit, as I understand it, prevented a farmer from saving seed from a previous years crop - a standard practice for the past 2000 years or so - how's that for tying it in to the original post! ) - and effectively forcing him to buy new seed annually from Monsanto. The GM seed beginning to be used today is a "terminator" seed, i.e. sterile, which reinforces the buying from Monsanto. These RoundUp Ready crops require buying Roundup from the pesticide company ... which is guess who? Monsanto.

Now if you are trying to avoid GM crops, be prepared to be sued by Monsanto for patent infringement if your fields are downwind and become cross-pollinated by neighboring fields growing Roundup Ready crops.

Conspiracy? No. Monopoly? LOL

Let's discuss this again in 5 years and see how the wind blew. (pun intended) How many of us believed processed food and fast food were "just fine" 5 years ago because we were told it was so?

Epic first post.