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In reply to the discussion: Montana: Wolf Hunts Are Banned in Area Bordering Yellowstone [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)...buffer distances between GM and nonGM crops in order to prevent cross contamination. Unfortunately for Monsanto, this would have severely limited the market in which they could sell their product. One farmer refusing to use their product, meant that Monsanto could not sell to any of his neighbours, and possible none of their's either. So Monsanto lobbied, and the actual buffer distances set have proven, time and time again, to be absolutely worthless.
As for their "Terminator" (tm) technology, environmental concerns might make good marketing copy, but you can lay London to a housebrick that the decision was 100% financial. Eventually they will run into a judge who disagrees with the idea that an independent third party can be penalised because of the actions of Monsanto and/or one or more of their paying customers.
There is also the minor matter of creating captive markets, by making it impossible to save seed grain for the following year.