Bill Gates Calls for More Accountability on Food Programs

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6. A rose-colored glasses view: Monsanto has created a great product

and everyone wants to buy it. Those who didn't/couldn't buy it were left at a disadvantage in the market, and are resentful.

A more pessimistic view: Monsanto has created a product may or may not be better, but is using illegal, monopolistic practices to corner the world's seed market.

I believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. If they truly have created better products, then they should be able to profit from them. But I've always argued that one of the main problems with the current state of capitalism in the U.S. is failure to enforce antitrust. Antitrust/Intellectual Property are two very complicated subjects to begin with, and I admit I don't know enough about the lawsuits which have been filed against Monsanto (except that they've largely failed to stick).