{"id":527,"date":"2009-12-02T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/soy-93-corn-80-monsanto.html"},"modified":"2009-12-02T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T15:00:42","slug":"soy-93-corn-80-monsanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/soy-93-corn-80-monsanto.html","title":{"rendered":"Soy 93% Corn 80% Monsanto"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gm.org\/gm-foods\/a-look-at-gm-soybeans\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.contentwire.com\/img\/6Hd-KhurdAyDE5Tc.jpg\"><\/a>\nIn addition to the problems produced by the pesticides Monsanto seeds are\ndeveloped to be immune to,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/28\/AR2009112802471.html?wprss=rss_print\">\nPeter Whoriskey writes in the Washington Post<\/a>\nabout how 93% of soybeans and 80% of corn grown in the U.S. now\ncomes from Monsanto-developed seeds.\nAnd during the decade in which that has happened:\n<blockquote>\n&#8230;for farmers such as Lowe, prices of the Monsanto-patented seeds have steadily increased, roughly doubling during the past decade, to about $50 for a 50-pound bag of soybean seed, according to seed dealers.\n<\/blockquote>\nIn\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theemergencyfoodsupply.com\/archives\/93-percent-of-soybeans-and-80-percent-of-corn-in-the-u-s-grow-from-seeds-genetically-altered-by-monsanto\">\na blog post about this subject:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nMany farmers are fed up with Monsanto&#8217;s ruthless use of litigation.  All over the United States, the wind is carrying Monsanto&#8217;s genetically altered seeds into neighboring fields.  Monsanto regularly sends out investigators to visit farms and to test whether any Monsanto strains have shown up on those farms.  If they have, then Monsanto proceeds to sue the living daylights out of those farmers.\n<\/blockquote>\nA commenter makes the monoculture point:\n<blockquote>\nThey don\u2019t have to be more susceptible to crop diseases. They have extremely low genetic diversity, so a disease that strongly affects that strain of plant will be able to spread over millions of acres of nearly identical targets.\n<p>\nThis is exactly what happened to the Irish during the potato famine. The Inca, who discovered the potato, had thousands of varieties. Some resisted blight, some resisted insects, others performed better in dry years, etc.\n<\/blockquote>\nMonoculture Monsanto cotton crops have already failed in India.\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\nBack to the farmer first quoted:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;Everybody wants it, and Monsanto is seeing what the market will bear,&#8221; said Lowe, 39. &#8220;People say that&#8217;s capitalism. The question is, where does capitalism meet corruption?&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nCorruption that already results in massive environmental damage and\nhuman illness, and could result in massive crop failure.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to the problems produced by the pesticides Monsanto seeds are developed to be immune to, Peter Whoriskey writes in the Washington Post about how 93% of soybeans and 80% of corn grown in the U.S. now comes from Monsanto-developed seeds. 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