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In reply to the discussion: Total Ban On GM Corn in France Follows Popular Opposition [View all]JackRiddler
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Monsanto's business model is to claim intellectual property rights on natural organisms as a means of extracting tributary rentier payments from farmers to the nth generation of plant harvests. I don't need to know more. This is the stuff of Bond-movies in terms of the cartoonishness of the villainy. And on top of that, these miscreants want to claim they're doing the world a favor and saving millions from starvation! Epic big-lie. Norman Borlaug didn't try to privatize the wheat varieties he came up with so that he could get Indian peasants to pay him billions of dollars. He genuinely believed what he was doing was to help people, and took pride in that, and didn't expect to profit from it. Whatever one's view of the Green revolution, he at least was still a human being!