We got a letter from our CSA blaming a nursery that supplies tomato plants to big box stores. Wal*Mart and the like sold the seedlings to backyard growers all over the region; the spores spread on the wind. New York State's tomato crops are basically hosed.
Deadly! Most of those are Monsanto products. They're designed to spread a genetically-engineered type of spore that's actually a copywritten DNA pattern. Monsanto uses its spread as an opportunity to sue farms upon which it falls for violation of copyright (see the nanocosm blog for details).
Please tell me you simply neglected to leave off the [sarcasm] [/sarcasm] tags. I'm not a Monsanto fan by any means, but I really doubt they genetically engineered a crop-killing fungus.
No. What they've done is engineer their plants to be resistant to Round-Up. They have used to the drift of these seeds and spores onto other farms' land as an excuse to sue for copyright infringement (successfully, I might add). Farmers unable to pay the astronomical civil damages imposed have had their assets seized.
Yes: you can now patent DNA combinations. Yes: courts will uphold corporate claims to intellectual property on same. Yes: farms have been seized. Monsanto is a fucking monster.
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Deadly! Most of those are Monsanto products. They're designed to spread a genetically-engineered type of spore that's actually a copywritten DNA pattern. Monsanto uses its spread as an opportunity to sue farms upon which it falls for violation of copyright (see the nanocosm blog for details).
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No. What they've done is engineer their plants to be resistant to Round-Up. They have used to the drift of these seeds and spores onto other farms' land as an excuse to sue for copyright infringement (successfully, I might add). Farmers unable to pay the astronomical civil damages imposed have had their assets seized.
Yes: you can now patent DNA combinations. Yes: courts will uphold corporate claims to intellectual property on same. Yes: farms have been seized. Monsanto is a fucking monster.