On 20 Aug 2003 06:22:18 GMT, Brian Sandle
posted:

In sci.agriculture Mooshie peas wrote:
On 17 Aug 2003 11:20:51 GMT, Brian Sandle
posted:
And they cheat by trapsing them from northern to southern hemisphere
and back every 6 months to get two summer growing seasons per year
to build stocks. That is done under the guise of `field testing'.

A small company takes the profits and the public the risks.

Please give an example of company profits derived from a product that
the market doesn't want.

As quite frequently it is hard to see the relation of your statements to
what you are supposedly replying to.

Haven't you been repeatedly telling us that NO-ONE wants GM seed? But
that Monsanto (or some other bogie man) forces everyone to use it?

Well back into the 1990s seed companies developing GM crops were taking
them to New Zealand and other southern hemisphere countries to increase
stocks more quickly from the post transformation stage up to amounts they
could release commercially. Corn and rape came to New Zealand. I
complained about the small separation requirements, insufficient I thought
to prevent pollen transferring genes. New Zealand has subsequently had GM
corn pollution. Do the genes of the corn pollution here indicate that it
did not come from those early `field tests'?

The companies doing the seed multiplication were getting paid, but the
public was taking the risk.

And the ultimate aim was for Monsanto to make a profit on this stuff
that no-one wants?