posted on Jul, 15 2008 @ 12:02 AM
Take a look at this interesting article -
The Next Battleground: The world's food
supply
It details how Monsanto is using bribery, the law, intimidation and any other means available to it to start to control the world food supply with
it's genetically modified and patented seeds. Not only is the behavior described in the article reprehensible and scientifically worrying, but food
is *the* most important product in the world. If one company controls the vast majority of the world food supply, especially considering their
development of "suicide seeds", you can predict a worrying situation where that one company effectively controls the entire world. If the only way a
farmer can grow a crop is by paying monsanto, and using their seeds which cannot be reused even a year later, then Monsanto is the only game in town -
the absolute and ultimate arbiter of who eats, how much they eat, and what they pay for that. Because of the natural processes which allow plants to
cross pollinate, such as wind, birds, insects, it is close to inevitable that sooner or later, every crop is a monsanto crop, whether farmers choose
to use them or not. If those crops then are unable to propagate from year to year, we could feasibly end up in a completely untenable position.
Scary.