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Christopher Leonard of the Associated Press says (14 Dec 2009)
Monsanto seed biz role revealed:
Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.’s business practices
reveal how the world’s biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors,
controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the
multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated
Press investigation has found.
Why should you care?
Declining competition in the seed business could lead to price hikes
that ripple out to every family’s dinner table. That’s because the corn
flakes you had for breakfast, soda you drank at lunch and beef stew you
ate for dinner likely were produced from crops grown with Monsanto’s
patented genes.
Where does Monsanto get such power?