Dioclese wrote:
"Jan Flora" wrote in message
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Billy, Charlie, Everyone --

Go read this:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...monsanto200805

Jan

Specifically, I would like to know exactly what Monsanto's patents
are. If its genetically engineered, how is that a patent?

It's not that it's genetically engineered, it's that it's resistant to
Roundup or produces BT toxin or whatever.

How can
one patent a lifeform, good or bad for the humankind?

By going down to the patent office and filing a form.

The link kind
of said it, profit is the goal. If the law allows it, they go for
it. Lock in their patents, and attack those who don't adhere.
Mother nature, here in S. TX ain't adhering either. Sprayed half
the
dilution recommended roundup on a roadbase driveway in full sun, the
native foliage returned in less that 2 months.

Same plants or new ones from seed? Ordinary Roundup doesn't kill seed
in the soil and it doesn't kill roots. They have formulations that
will control weeds for up to 4 months and that will kill the root, but
those features aren't in the "normal" formulation. Try the one that
kills roots and the one that is good for 4 months and if those don't
work, _then_ complain.

Also tried, at the
same time in different area of same driveway, recommended dilution
similar results. This, despite TX summer heat. Worse yet, for
Monsanto, all is green in the same treated driveway this spring
despite the severe drought.

What makes you think that Roundup is supposed to prevent this? It
doesn't permantly render soil infertile you know. Seems to me that
you didn't bother to read the label on the product to find out what it
is and is not supposed to do. You spray it on a weed the weed may die
or may just die back to the root depending on the species and how well
established it is. Anything that tries to grow in the spot the weed
occupied, including another weed, will grow fine. If it rendered soil
infertile, which it would have to do to prevent the driveway from
being "green this spring", then it wouldn't be much use in preparing
fields for planting and every time you used it on a weed in a lawn
there would be a permanent hole in the location the weed had occupied.

Next time, after you use the Roundup, try planting something that will
displace the weeds.

The solution for these locked-in farmers is simple, get seed from a
different source. Grow seed bearing crop intentionally for their
own
use. Stop using roundup.

Stop making money as farmers who don't follow your suggestion undercut
your prices. Farmers aren't in business for fun you know--they have
bills to pay.

Somebody needs to toss some Monsanto soybeans or whatever into various
legislators' flowerbeds and then sic Monsanto on 'em.

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