In article , Major Ursa
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As for business risk, Monsanto's entire future hinges on the
INCREASING marketability of RoundUp in tandem with
glyphosate-resistant crops no one but themselves can provide. From
their point of view they are "far too businesslike" to ever tell the
truth, since the goal is to increase sales of a product that shouldn't
be sold at all.

So, what you're saying is that they try to keep up the sales so they are
big enough later on to pay for the claims.

Or to pay their attorneys so that they never have to pay the claims. Even
when they settle out of court, they rarely pay off the settlements. So the
real point is that they are so heavily invested in RoundUp they can't let
go of it no matter how bad it is, they must use every trick in the book to
keep it legal. It directly impacts the nature of the crop seed they're
also producing. By providing glyphosate-tolerant grains that grow up to be
sterile crops, they trap famers into an eternal cycle of always having to
buy new seed, plus they can sell them increasing tons of glyphosate to
slather all around the crops. Monsanto will make billions & billions off
this selling toxins to use on crops that are genetically modified to be
tolerant of toxins. This is already far outpacing what they're making by
feeding us harmful bovine growth hormones in milk, as they can't actually
control the flow of the milk the way they can control seed crops by
altering them to never produce fertile seeds. They could have all their
products banned & still be a super-giant so long as they can keep
glyphosate legal. So they can afford a few million for the attorneys when
billions are the reward.

I find it hard to believe that if MS _knows_ that this stuff is as
dangerous as you claim it to be that they would go on and make these false
statements. So, since they keep doing it, they do not know for sure it is
that dangerous. And if they don't _know it, how can _you be so sure.

Certainly when the lies add up to thirty years worth & the evidence that
they are lying is finally too great & definitive for them to lie any
longer, their usual excuse is "we really didn't know." But that assumes
there are no actual scientists in the company. They have plenty of
scientists. So they know.

-paggers

Btw, I'm certainly not a friend of MS, far from it, and I disaprove
strongly of their business practice of forcing gentech on the rest of the
world, but if we can not prove a case as 'clear' as this one, then who is
to blame for the consequences? I think MS is a technocrats business plan,
but that is just one part of our society. If ppl disagree massively, and
the case is as clear as you say, than surely it must me easy to stop them.

Ursa..

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