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Topic: Farmer´s Use of Modified
Seeds Reaches Supreme Court |
Farmer´s Use of Modified
Seeds Reaches Supreme Court
Roll Call, by Ellyn Ferguson
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/9/2013 6:12:23 AM
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| By developing and inserting a glyphosate- resistant gene into plant DNA, Monsanto Co. has created premium seeds of soybean, canola and cotton able to withstand its Roundup herbicides and similar weed killers. In the agribusiness world, Monsanto is known as an aggressive enforcer of restrictions on farmers’ use of its patented line of genetically engineered crops. Now the St. Louis-based conglomerate is in a showdown with a southern Indiana farmer that will play out this month in the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue is Vernon Hugh Bowman’s argument that Monsanto lost the right to keep him
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scrubber, 2/9/2013 6:28:33 AM (No. 9166844)
I don´t know the merits of this case either way, but I do know Monsanto. They aggressively pursue in the courts anyone they think is infringing on their business. With their cash (muscle), they can, and have, crush almost anyone, putting them out of business via legal thuggery.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden, 2/9/2013 6:41:39 AM (No. 9166859)
The scary point is who would want to eat anything produced that could withstand Roundup and other weed killers... I chose not to eat GMO anything, as best I can.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LoneVoice, 2/9/2013 6:50:13 AM (No. 9166869)
So Monsanto has a patent that never expires?
I wonder what´ll happen when some company makes genetically modified humans. Will the company own all subsequent generations?
Patent law has been so twisted in this country that it no longer helps an individual inventor. It only helps lawyers and businesses the money to pay those lawyers. Patent law renders most patents by individual inventors meaningless. However, large corporations with patents can crush individual entrepreneurs at a whim.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
right-turn, 2/9/2013 7:16:44 AM (No. 9166898)
It´s easy to criticize large corporations but put yourself in it´s place. Spend time and money inventing something, getting a patent to protect your invention, then lose virtually all rights to that patent. I´m with Monsanto in this case.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BirdsNest, 2/9/2013 7:18:18 AM (No. 9166900)
Monsanto is a boil on the butt of humanity.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
OhMy, 2/9/2013 7:30:39 AM (No. 9166909)
A real problem with GMO and the law is not only frankenfoods which this case is not dealing with but the contamination issue. Monsanto can take over a farmers crop by contamination. A farmer who never has any dealings with Monsanto can have his crop contaminated by the engineered genes from a neighbouring farm and he cannot keep his own seed and replant them without paying Monsanto. In this case the farmer should be able to sue Monsanto for contaminating his natural crop with it´s engineered seeds. GMO seeds pose health dangers. There will be more problems we don´t know about now.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bur Oak, 2/9/2013 8:26:28 AM (No. 9167002)
Humans have been genetically modifying plants for thousands of years. That´s good, since more people are able to eat. Lots of seeds and plants are protected from unauthorized propagation. If you don´t want to abide by the rules, don´t buy the plants or seeds.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 2/9/2013 9:12:17 AM (No. 9167083)
#7, the farmer in this case did not buy the seeds in question from Monsanto. He bought them from a grain elevator. If he had never done business with Monsanto, I believe it would be an open and shut case in his favor.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cowdog, 2/9/2013 9:16:08 AM (No. 9167092)
The farmers problem with Monsanto is they charge a "tech fee" for each bag of cotton seed. At first the price was reasonable but over the years this fee has exploded in price and now a 50 lb. bag of cotton seed costs more than a 500 lb. bale of cotton will bring. And like someone has already stated the patent never runs out. They are greedy!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cowdog, 2/9/2013 9:18:50 AM (No. 9167094)
Also this "tech fee" applies to any modified seed that Monsanto sells.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
marthaville, 2/9/2013 10:54:02 AM (No. 9167283)
#8 you are obviously not a farmer who has purchased genetically modified seed. Otherwise you would know that when you purchase the seed, you agree that the produced seed belongs to the manufacturer. All seed is not sold by Monsanto, in this case, to the farmer. That does not change the agreement.
If you don´t want to use genetically modified seed, don´t buy it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
nonsense, 2/9/2013 11:13:00 AM (No. 9167315)
Big Monsanto is a Big Friend of Big Powerful Government. Any questions?
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