therealkrispy

They'll go on their own. In a trade war with us, they starve.

therealkrispy

True, but if you look at it at a global scale we can just cull India and China. Eugenics is too Keynesian of a concept for my taste.

OriginalReaper

i was just kidding

therealkrispy

No, they'll just have a flu epidemic and patient zero will be a cotton farmer in India.

therealkrispy

Indigenous Seed would be a fun band name.

Helios-Apollo

Indigenous Seed is what white America needs more of.

odb281

only if it was an aboriginal band made up of children.

44NJ9

Each million adds up. MonSatan let go of about 3,000 employees last year because sales were down. I;m glad these people are taking their health and the health of the plants back. Who wants to buy seeds where the DNA has been so dramatically changed they can't reproduce. And to keep buying franked-seeds over and over again to replenish their crops.

therealkrispy

Thing is, the absence of reproductive capacity in the plants isn't a side effect, it's obviously a clear goal.

DeadMary

Actually, it is. It's not even a secret really. They purposefully put in a gene that terminates their ability to produce fertile seeds, so that you buy whole new seeds for the next farming year.

This is so wide spread right now because a lot of farmers can not maintain their livelihood without being a contract farmer. Meaning they get funded and paid by a company to produce a certain crop and have to abide by that company's rules.

Most of the time they require you to use these seeds because they have a deal put into place that benefits those at the top, and because they produce the most yield when paired with the pesticides that YOU ARE REQUIRED to spray the plants with. They will not 'buy' them from you at the end of your contract period if you do not.

The agriculture world has become very deadly for anyone who dares to go against the corporate norm. Rest assure that these farmers will not go unpunished for simply trying to produce crops a healthier way. Believe me when I say the farming world is run like the freaking mafia.

therealkrispy

Seems like every industry in the world is run like the mafia these days.

OriginalReaper

you must be really poor

odb281

$11 million lost on a $15 Billion revenue is nothing more than chump change. If anything, that loss saved them money in taxes as it can be used as a write off.

gosso920

So... MON is still a strong buy, then?

odb281

I'd hold off for now. Monsanto is currently embedded in a lawsuit in California that would make them listing the ingredients to Roundup as cancer causing agents. Until that lawsuit is issued a verdict, it isn't a sure bet.

therealkrispy

And even if that verdict comes through, they're probably half way through finding new cancer causing ingredients to use instead, so we have to back around again to make them disclose those.

Zanbato

$11 Million is probably the CEO's travel expenses alone for a year.

2drunk

Don't worry. Monsanto will trespass on their land and plant their death seeds then sue them.