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Originally Posted by schola  I don't know their motivation. Do you? |
Profit. The seeds have to be purchased every year and the farmers cannot harvest their own seeds.
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Originally Posted by schola No it is not a free market. Who told you we have a free market in the United States? Companies like Monsanto collude with big government to enforce their monopolies. |
No the US is a free market for the most part however there are some industries that have monopolies. I am open to the idea that the gov't created a seed monopoly. Just give me a little evidence other than the seeds being infertile.
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Originally Posted by schola How can a farmer buy seeds from somewhere else when Monsanto and a few other very large corporations have the market cornered? |
I have heard that Monsantos seeds yield bigger and more healthy crops. Is that true? If so then maybe the farmers are also buying Monsantos seeds because they are superior.
Just because Monsantos makes their seeds infertile doesn't necessarily mean that they are in on a conspiracy to control the world's food supply.
You said that I was flippant to assume that its easy to make a switch but maybe you're flippant that Monsantos is in on a food control conspiracy. I am not saying that they are not but I am saying that the motivation to make seeds infertile for profits is clear; any other accusation should be supported by some facts. Again, farmers have to buy seeds yearly from Monsantos and so therefore they keep a loyal customer. HP attempts to control consumer's ink cartridge purchases by not uniforming their cartridge supplies. Are they doing this for profit or are they in on a major conspiracy to control what the world's printing of documents and therefore control all future information? You see my point.
I will tell you how I'll believe that Monsantos is in on a world food conspiracy. Show me that private bankers who have a monopoly on the USD own a controlling share in Monsantos and I'll buy it. Quite frankly I don't know why more people are pissed that 13 private banks charge the US gov't interest on printing a fiat currency. Why do we pay interest to private banks in London, NY and Israel to print money for the US gov't? Why do they control our money supply, this is beyond understanding ?!