Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety

[Jan Klimkowski]

Monsanto = The Terminator

They are also a highly aggressive and litigious company.

Genetic use restriction technology (GURT), colloquially known as terminator technology, is the name given to proposed methods for restricting the use of genetically modified plants by causing second generation seeds to be sterile. The technology was under development by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Delta and Pine Land company in the 1990s and is not yet commercially available. Because some stakeholders expressed concerns that this technology might lead to dependence for poor smallholder farmers, Monsanto, an agricultural products company and the world's biggest seed supplier, pledged not to commercialize the technology in 1999.[1] In 2003, it reneged that promise by publishing a position paper espousing the use of GURTs.[2] Late in 2006, it acquired Delta and Pine Land company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_Technology

In June 2007, Monsanto acquired Delta & Pine Land Company, a company that had been involved with a seed technology nicknamed "Terminator". This technology produces plants that have sterile seeds so they do not flower or grow fruit after the initial planting, requiring customers to purchase seed from Monsanto for every planting in which they use Monsanto seed varieties. In recent years, widespread opposition from environmental organizations and farmer associations has grown, mainly out of the concerns that these seeds increase farmers' dependency on seed suppliers especially in the third world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#.2...ontroversy