Originally posted by drevill... if Monsanto "owns" the patent can they claim the cross pollinated plants as theirs as it now contains "their" gene? If so would a subsidy have to be paid?

Interesting question, drevill... I think most of us would agree that Monsanto would certainly try to make that claim, and it most likely would be upheld if reviewed by our corrupt courts.

Originally posted by sylvieAnyone know who Monsanto's founders were? I wouldn't be surprised to see some names from the 1940s' Bayer or IG Farben ranks on the list...

Wow! Awsome job with all the added info everyone! And a big star to Grinder on this thread

And a very good inquiry, sylvie... not sure if you caught the Rumsfeld, Searle-Monsanto connection in my second or third post here... so start from Searle if you look. I will try to find time later to do so myself, as well.

Just an interesting sidebar...

I work at the Home Depot, where money is being laudered through some of the most wasteful packaging I've ever seen (yet they still have the nerve to cut freight team into part time positions while working practically full time anyway), and we have an aisle of mostly cleaning products and an aisle of mostly pesticides parallel to each other.... and I get really nervous packing out freight in those aisles, because a lot of that stuff is powder, and a lotta times, the bags or little cans they come in are not sealed well enough. You can smell it all over yourself, you can feel the residue on your hands, and it literally makes me sick to work in that ailse.
It's hilarious to me that we're "Thinking Green", yet at the same time, we have a whole aisle dedicated to plant poisoning.

I checked today, and we sell plenty-o-RoundUp. It makes me wonder about our CEO and the top shareholders. We're still selling these horribly deadly chemicals that make you sick just being near them, yet we've got this whole rediculous "going green" campaign thing. The only thing that's gone green is a line of Ryobi power tools (Note: they're literally green in color... teheh).

I often wonder (and I more or less have woken and can smell the roses here) if this "going green" B.S. propaganda brainwashing campaign here in the States is just a distraction thought up by heads of Monsanto and the likes, to keep people looking the other way at some hybrid cars and some bottles with flowers on them, while the pollution just continues to get worse and people continue to die because of the poisoning of the environment.

What does a corporation that owns everything in the world need with more wealth? They already have the world in the palm of their hand....well not yet, but they are getting there. Corporations frighten the dickens outta me, because once you study them and see just how much of everything is controlled by these handful of behemoths, you start to see that profit is not the main goal of these corporations. Profit is just kinda like the battery that motivates the machine to complete it's main objective, which is total control.

Once they have the market cornered in one area, they expand and corner the next market, and the next, and the next, and the next, until you have a company like Monsanto... who has every market cornered, even if it's indirectly.... and its scary because corporations cannot be put on trial for murder. They have all the same rights as people, except for some reason, they are completely exempt from responsibility, as long as the check is big enough..... and the check can be as big as they want it. The same people who own the corporations own the banks and the right to print currency.

They have one weakness, though. Their power supply has free will.

Great vid!

Immoral big-business in cahoots with the government. Untempered capitalism and the definition of Fascism.

I thought rabbitchaser posted this.

I sent the link out to my whole address book.

Most of my friends and family are so sure that there could NEVER be a conspiracy - with corporations and the government...to control us completely, kill us off with ease...

Why do you think they have that seed repository? I bet there are no GM seeds THERE! Geez.

Investors are the pesticide or "Roundup" of any malignant and malicious corporation. Monsanto could be retired within a few hours if investors had a conscience that prioritized human, agricultural, and environmental concerns over money. Monsanto's tactics stem from its sworn fiduciary duty to its investors. Monsanto is sworn to generate a return on the investments made by its investors. That's it. Nothing else. Investors could demand an ethical, accountable, transparent Monsanto and it would have to oblige. Yet, how many investors do you know who are willing to say no to more money?

What would be the impact on the world's food supply if farmers around the world stopped planting Monsanto's seeds and using its pesticides?

The World According To Monsanto delivers a deeply troubling message. As the Monsanto employee expressed at the end of the documentary, "We suspect that there is nothing positive that would come of our participation in an interview or the documentary." That really sums it up.