So you think it's not difficult enough for "Small Farmers" to "stay-afloat"??? It has now "come-to-light", that Corporate-farmer/chemical companies are conspiring to run them out of business. After securing exclusive "patents" on "G.M.O.s" (Genetically Modified Organisms), companies such as Monsanto, have sued small farmers for "patent-infringment" when THEIR OWN crops inadvertantly pollinate small-farmers crops. These chemical companies seize the suspect crops and conduct D.N.A. testing to determine if the "G.M.O." crops are present. When they find such plants, they sue the farmers, in-effect bankrupting them with MASSIVE legal costs. These crops know no-such thing as "property-lines", and their pollen is often carried miles away by insects and the wind. With "corporate-lawyers" on their payrolls, the "small-farmers' cannot defend themselves from the litigation. These are the SAME chemical companies who so-generously contribute to the Republican coffers. This is nothing but a clever scheme to consolidate agriculture and eliminate competition, much the way that oil-companies have done. Dave
- posted by Dave @ 5:13 PM