[Homestead] Golden Rice, GM food pros and cons

Tvoivozhd tvoivozd at infionline.net
Sat Oct 2 23:39:47 EDT 2004


Toni Hawryluk wrote:

>From: Tvoivozhd<mailto:tvoivozd at infionline.net> 
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>>If you have to eat a half a bushel of the stuff to get  your daily requiement of Vitamin B or Vitamin A, it doesn't sound very useful to me, nor does enslavement to Syngenta. 
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>Isn't Syngenta Monstanto's new name ? They
>changed it somewhere along the line, or at least
>for some of their poisons, er, products ....
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tvoivozhd---nope, as far as I know Syngenta is a Swiss Corporation, 
Monsanto American/  A  lot  of cross-licensing..of patents to blur the 
edges between them........

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>>the patent-holder.  Farmers need to be able to save and replant their seed---the hell with buying it from 
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>a seed-monopoly.
>http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=5119204<http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=5119204>
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