Biopiracy - India vs Monsanto

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

In any case, GM organisms are not the evil here, rather, it's the monopolizing corporations like Monsanto acting as robber barons over the farmers of North America that are the real problem.

Excellent description!!

[Cainad (dec.)]

This is awesome; go India!

And thanks for sharing that story, Khara. I knew Monsanto are scum, but I knew of very few specific cases (and I don't think I'd heard of them screwing over American farmers before, either. I bet they try to keep that hushed up).

In semi-related info, my university's current president used to work for Monsanto.

[Reginald Ret]

Interesting. Though I take issue with the term "frankencrop", since it seems to imply that GM food is inherently bad, while so far it's been mostly Monsanto's corporate politics that are the real evil (well, that and monocultures, but really mainly Monsanto being evil fucks). It kinda bugs me cause it causes the eco hippies to focus on health risks and such which is a red herring because this is about bigass corporate systems being evil and GM can actually (afaik) be used for good as well.

People should reread frankenstein, The frankencrop is a gentle confused soul it's all other plants that are monster-cunts for wanting to kill frankencrop.
Wait, that metaphore got confused somehow.