European Union begins to unravel

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Ah, you must be talking about a different Bayer and a different Monsanto (or maybe it's a blue tick twitter feed you've read it on)

Bayer clinches Monsanto with improved $66 billion bid | Reuters

Do you even read the content in the links you post?

But the proposed merger will likely face an intense and lengthy regulatory process in the United States, Canada, Brazil, the European Union and elsewhere. Hugh Grant, Monsanto's chief executive, said Wednesday the companies will need to file in about 30 jurisdictions for the merger.

[MrMarkyMark]

Pharrell got fined for 'inadvertently' using a Marvin Gaye song. People would laugh if anyone blamed the estate of Marvin Gaye.

Poor analogy.
The point is he inadvertently used it.

These guys are going for people who fields have been cross contaminated.
You really are talking about something you know absolutely nothing about.

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Poor analogy.
The point is he inadvertently used it.

These guys are going for people who fields have been cross contaminated.
You really are talking about something you know absolutely nothing about.

You posted a link from Russia Today FFS

[WTFH]

You posted a link from Russia Today FFS

Reuters isn't Russia Today.

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Reuters isn't Russia Today.

Oh lord you are thick.

[MrMarkyMark]

You posted a link from Russia Today FFS

Here's another three...

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...s-seed-patents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...feed-the-world

Read up first, then come back here and we will argue GM foods.

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Here's another couple...

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...s-seed-patents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases

Read up first, then come back here and we will argue GM foods.

FFS, the guardian

2 seconds on google searching "myth gm contamination" comes up with dozens of science sites with content like this from people actually in the industry..

To conclude this series, I have found no evidence that farmers are sued by Monsanto for inadvertent contamination. The lawsuits that I examined were for cases where farmers knowingly and admittedly used Monsanto seeds without licensing contracts. The fact that seeds are patented is not exclusive to GMOs: as outlined in the first post, many other traditionally bred seeds are patented. For some seeds, both genetically engineered and traditionally bred, farmers sign annual contracts with seed developers. However, farmers have many choices and in no way are forced to plant these seeds or sign these contracts.

Layla Katiraee, contributor to the Genetic Literacy Project, holds a PhD in molecular genetics from the University of Toronto and is a senior scientist in product development at a biotech company in California. All opinions and views expressed are her own. Her twitter handle is: @BioChicaGMO.

http://www.geneticliteracyproject.or...contamination/

Bunch of feckin crackpots the lot of you

[vetran]

But if they don't make it nobody owns it.

The report also revealed the dominance that large firms and their genetically altered crops have in the US and global market. It found that 53% of the world's commercial seed market is controlled by just three firms – Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta.

Meanwhile genetically-altered commodity crops – and thus the influence of patent protection – have spread to become overwhelmingly dominant. In the US some 93% of soybeans and 86% of corn crops come from such seeds.

The Bowman case has come about after the 75-year-old farmer bought soybeans from a grain elevator near his farm in Indiana and used them to plant a late-season second crop. He then used some of the resulting seeds to replant such crops in subsequent years. Because he bought them from a third party which put no restrictions on their use, Bowman has argued he is legally able to plant and replant them and that Monsanto's patent on the seeds' genes does not apply.

From the Guardian article

scary

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Seeds get treated before they are put down to the advantage of the buyer, ie the farmer.

[minestrone]

This is standard Guardian language...

It found that 53% of the world's commercial seed market is controlled by just three firms – Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta.

..giving the reader the impression that these companies are exploiting the world's hungry.

The chemical companies buy the seed and pre treat with the products they have created through their research. It results in a higher yield so farmers are only too happy to buy the product rather than going with standard untreated seed.

here is one of their corn products...

https://www.pioneer.com/home/site/us...ed-treatments/

I see this as progress.