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reply posted on 19-1-2009 @ 03:09 PM by TheWayISeeIt
This is from May of 2008, it discusses Monsanto's acquisition of DeRuiters seed co. and postulates what percentage MS had of various US vegatable seed suppl prior to this purchase.

Here is an excerpt:


In March Monsanto agreed to acquire Netherlands-based De Ruiter Seeds Group BV, which produces seeds for the greenhouse market, for $862.7 million plus debt. Monsanto did not disclose the amount of the debt included in the purchase price.

De Ruiter Seeds, which had global sales of about $170.6 million, works with crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, peppers and rootstock.

The move comes three years after Monsanto began aggressively moving into the vegetable seed arena with the $1.4 billion purchase in 2005 of California-based Seminis, which gave Monsanto control over more than 30 percent of the North American vegetable seed market, as well as more than 20 percent of the world’s tomato seed market and more than 30 percent of the global hot pepper seed market.


LINK

Monsanto has moved aggressively in the last 5 years to take over the global supply of various seedlines by purchasing seed-sellers all over the world.

The statistics, which I will go in search of again and post here when I find them, are staggering. If I remeber correctly at mid-summer of last year they had purchased 85% OF THE SEED SUPPLIERS IN THE ENITRE WORLD.

EDIT TO ADD:

Here is a link to the VEOH video site which shows the entire documenatry
The World According to Monsanto. For Full Length Documentary Click Here

This was aired in France last Spring and was initially pulled from both Google and YouTube as it started to go viral. It then came quitely back online a couple of months later.. after the inital furor had died down.

This is THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO DATE.

It also discusses the acquistion of Global Seed Co.'s as well.

A MUST SEE if you care about this topic at all.

Fight the good fight,
TWISI




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