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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: BASSPLYR
They tried keeping the plant illegal so that it wouldn't compete with their lab made BS> but now that thats not happening and decriminialization of the plant is beginning to go underway.
Who did? Monsanto? You have, of course, evidence to support that claim?
There is no GM wheat on the market and Monsanto does not hold the major share of corn seed sales in the US (pretty far from it, actually).
They are already well underway doing that with wheat and corn in the US.
The organic prices on anything is just weird IMO. It's the way we all ate and it's actually cheaper. Organic is far cheaper than chemical nutes (nutrients).
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: ThePublicEnemyNo1
The organic prices on anything is just weird IMO. It's the way we all ate and it's actually cheaper. Organic is far cheaper than chemical nutes (nutrients).
Organic growing is more labor intensive. That's the main reason it's more costly. That, and because people are willing to pay more because it's organic. Farmers (organic and otherwise) get what the market will bear.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: BASSPLYR
They tried keeping the plant illegal so that it wouldn't compete with their lab made BS> but now that thats not happening and decriminialization of the plant is beginning to go underway.
Who did? Monsanto? You have, of course, evidence to support that claim?
There is no GM wheat on the market and Monsanto does not hold the major share of corn seed sales in the US (pretty far from it, actually).
They are already well underway doing that with wheat and corn in the US.
U.S & Monsanto dominate Global Market for GMO seeds
The U.S. and Monsanto dominate the global market for genetically engineered crops. Forty percent of the world’s genetically modified (GM) crops are grown in the U.S., where Monsanto controls 80 percent of the GM corn market, and 93 percent of the GM soy market.
Worldwide, 282 million acres are planted in Monsanto’s GM crops, up from only 3 million in 1996, according to Food and Water Watch.
Forty percent of U.S. cropland, or 151.4 million acres, are planted in Monsanto’s crops. Monsanto owns 1,676 seed, plant and other applicable patents.
Soros' hedge fund bought 897,813 shares (valued at $312.6 million) of Monsanto during the third quarter of 2010.[44]
The Monsanto Company is a U.S.-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as "Roundup." Monsanto is also the leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed; it provides the technology in 90% of the world's GE seeds.[45] It is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
S510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, if and when it is passed, will create an investment windfall for Soros who is the second largest holder of Monsanto stock. S510 is not really about food safety, it is about government control over everything connected to food in the US including seed stock.[
George Soros
FOUNDER / CHAIRMAN
Investor and philanthropist George Soros established the Open Society Foundations to help countries make the transition from communism.
ProDerechos was a leading force in Regulación Responsable .....
....... ProDerechos is supported by the Open Society Foundations
Last time I checked 80% would make Monsanto the major ass hole you say they aren't.
Monsanto recently signed an agreement with the National Institute of Agricultural Investigation (INIA). "This was done very quietly", says says Pablo Galeano, from the leading non-governmental organisation REDES. "Our job in REDES is to uncover these cases and, if we find something wrong, denounce it," says Galeano.
Aside from the Soros agenda for a One World Government, financing the Occupy Movement and of overthrowing governments, destablising nations and fomenting civil wars around the globe through carefully planned ‘color revolutions’, how does the Open Society Institute’s push for legalisation of drugs fit into all of this?
Critics are wondering if it could have something to do with influencing the governments in those countries where the legalisation efforts are most intense. Is this connected to the UN’s Agenda 21? Or is this paving the way for gene giants in big pharma to replace natural strands of cannabis with their own patented GMO variety? Definitely the ladder…
They say the Uruguayan government hopes legalising the sale of marijuana “will tackle drug cartels”, but what they’re not telling you is that they are paving the way for a bigger drug cartel to take over. Soros is reportedly also a big Monsanto shareholder, and guess who is test planting their GMO version of cannabis later this year in Uruguay? Yes, it’s Monsanto.
The agreement says that the INIA project to improve the soya bean crop will incorporate GMOs from Monsanto. “So INIA is allowing Monsanto to take Uruguayan soya bean seeds to their laboratory in Costa Rica where they will insert GMOs into the seeds and then bring them back to Uruguay to be used by the farmers.”
This will mean that Monsanto will effectively have control over, and make money out of, soya farming in Uruguay. “As part of the agreement Monsanto is asking to have intellectual property rights over this GMO technology in Uruguay”,
Incorporation of modern technologies in domestic soybean genetic
On Wednesday, May 16 at 15 pm in INIA National held the agreement with Monsanto to introduce genetic material into the RR2Y soy-Bt technology for the purposes of making it available in future cultivars release.
INIA has identified in its Strategic Plan 2011 - 2015, strengthen activities in soybean breeding nationwide. It is crucial to develop genetic material under their own production environments Uruguay for this results in greater ability to identify the genetic material of high adaptation, with superior performance and greater stability conditions.
“So INIA is allowing Monsanto to take Uruguayan soya bean seeds to their laboratory in Costa Rica where they will insert GMOs into the seeds and then bring them back to Uruguay to be used by the farmers.”
originally posted by: rickymouse
I thought the English were working on this already. A form of Marijuana that has little of the doping effect and increased amounts of the medicinal value. In South America they are already growing GM marijuana, but I doubt if the drug lords have a patent on that.
I suppose Monsanto is going to steal the research from the English people and patent it. In real medical Marijuana, the effect of the THC is masked by other canibinoids. It really does not get you buzzed much. Now if I were to use this as medicine, I would want that type. But most people want regular stuff.
originally posted by: ImpossibilityOfReason
So then the only option of getting unmodified marijuana would be mainly drug cartels... possibly the motive?