The NEW World Dictators..... Hitlers Reborn

[WoolyBear]

Huge multinationals want seed monopoly
March 25, 2006
Okanagan Weekender
Jane Turnell of Penticton, B.C., writes that the introduction of terminal seed technology spells the end of natural plant propagation and farming as we know it. Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and the like will eventually contaminate every normal plant and we will have to pay for every seed that is to be planted. Farmers will never be able to save seed from their harvest and plant it the next spring unless it is treated with "sprouting" chemicals.
Starving countries will be at the mercy of rich, greedy, heartless monopolies. A perfect way to select who eats and who doesn't. If one farmer is coerced to plant the terminal seed or if the terminal seed company plants a field of terminal-seed-wheat in a wheat-growing area, the wind and bugs will contaminate the fields in close proximity. When the natural wheat is harvested, some of the harvest will be contaminated with terminal seed genetics. As the natural farmer plants his harvested seed the following year, his contaminated seed will not sprout, causing a loss of production. The terminal seed is again planted and more pollen contaminates natural wheat and even more natural grain planted the next year does not sprout.
Soon the natural farmer must either go out of production or pay for chemicals to sprout his seed, and if history repeats itself, Monsanto or its comrades-at-arms will sue the farmer for using their terminal seed. An added cost to the farmer and the consumers. After a few years of exposure to terminal seed, Monsanto will control all of the world's wheat grain, and us. And wheat is only one of the seeds to be contaminated with terminal seed. Every other edible plant will eventually be terminal.
Poor countries cannot afford to buy seed or chemicals. The world cannot afford to have one or several companies control all the crops of the world.
The chemicals that are used to sprout the terminal seed could very well be detrimental to human and animal health. No one knows the long-term problems.
Terminal seeds must be destroyed. Their destruction must be observed by organic activists, politicians, police and religious leaders. We should be able to trust some of these people. By allowing this seed to be planted and contaminating natural plants, it is a crime against humanity and perpetrates legalized genocide on a mostly unsuspecting world.

IMAGINE having to pay a TUA before you can feed your starving family! Farmers and seed producers best boycott the Terminator Gene, and more importantly Monsanto, Dow and Dupont before this goes any further.

[wd9]

We can also stand in a circle, sing Kum-by-ya and starve to death.

[nw9flynn]

The NEW World Dictators...Hitlers Reborn?

Get real!

I don't even know what to say.

That was one of the dumbest thinngs I have read in a while. I hope it was supposed to be funny.

[jensend]

one of the first laws passed by the iraqi provisional govt. a couple years back was a plant breeders' rights bill. control of food supplies confers a lot of power.

[northfarmer]

Jane should get her head out of her $#%, you would have though her editor would have had the sense.....this type of fear mongering and and ill informed and unitelligent debate will not serve any purpose for producers here or anywhere in the world...it will only undermione the future of agriculture...

[lakenheath]

Typical farmers. Standing up for Monsanto. Instead of opening their eye to some reality. Farmers are blind to a lot of facts. Farmers in North America are technological leaders in agriculture, but heavy consequences will follow in years to come.

Keep supporting ideas like a Terminator Gene. See how our futures generations will suffer.

But, what the hell do you guys care. Let's pollute and destroy agriculuture, because we won't be around to see the net effect.

To hell with sustainable agriculure. Let's develop a model that relies on multi-naitonal science and increasing cost of inputs that pollute our environment.

[WoolyBear]

Maybe using Hilter (Togo, and Mussolini) to compare with Monsanto, Dow and Dupont was out of line, but look what happened when the world ignored what they were doing in the 30's? While the author of the original article might seem to be WAY out in left field, she is only developing some thought processes in the rest of us.

IF the terminator gene is allowed to be put into a select variety of plants, and IF it cross mutates into other plants (AS DID happen with the Roundup Ready gene) pretty soon the outcome will be as she describes. If the in the far future it could be very possible that those that control the gene in question, will in fact control the food source.

RoundUp Ready plants already make up a significant portion of the Corn, Soybean and Canola in this part of the world.

Keep an open mind and maybe things might make more sense

[northfarmer]

i am not sure, but i think it is a US company called Delta Pine that was looking at developing the terminator technolgy and not Monsanto...though they seem to get tagged with the issue...

biotech crops globally have substantailly reduced pesticide use globally, particluarly where stacked traits provide disease resistance..corn and cotton..there is a new rice that will also help deal with blindness of children in third world countries.....

.. I had the chance to hear a speech on the usbject delivered by none other than Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the original founders of Greenpeace....check out his site...greenspirit.com on the subject...

[sawfly]

Its a trap the ultimate big brother, enslavement. wrapped up in nice paper about helping blind children.
Give me a friggin break.
if you want to give supp;ements or whatever to prevent blindness in childern . Do it.
But do not hand the control of the seed, the ability of people to feed themselves , over to the richest 1/10 th of 1% of the population.

[northfarmer]

no, give me a friggin break, the article written by Jane is one of the dumbest thing I have ever read, makes serious factual errors, and appears to be the rant of an fear mongering writer who would also appear to be a conspiracy theorist.....and she apparently has common ground with other conspiracy threorists unwilling to have a logical debate based on actual science....MHO

[sawfly]

i ageee it is a little off the wall and probably does a disservice to the good case against the terminator tech.

[lakenheath]

WOW....are you ever gullable Northfamer....you are what makes the Monsanto rich and successful....do a little bit of objective research into the "yellow rice" savour of the world....it has no nutritional benefit over any other rice.....starving, mal-nurished nations lack food because of over-production in rich countries.....not because there is a lack of food in the world....they can't afford to purchase food becaue of corupt government, war and a lack of agriculture industry in their own countries...and why you ask....because they can't make money farming, because they can compete with our over-production and subsidies......

[lakenheath]

and...yes, Monsanto does not own or did not develope the Terminator Gene...however they did make and offer to purchase the rights to the technology and the purchase was made a few years ago....heavy public outcry forces Monsanto to go back on the deal, but don't think for one minute that it is not in there future plans....

another WOW to a farmer that supports or not the scared all to hell about something like a Terminator Gene.....give your head a shake man....it would be a environmental disaster....what benefit....just tell me one benefit....only one...that farmer would get out of having a Terminator Gene in there seed....

give me a break....and quit being brainwashed by multi-nationals....learn to think outside the box....

[nw9flynn]

Here is a thought. If everyone holds such strong opinions on this "terminator gene", and you don't see any benifits to using it, than don't buy the seed or products from that company. Simple.
If there is no market for it and farmers don't want they won't provide the service. Simple.
If you want the termainator gene buy seed from the monsantos of the world. I don't know why some producers get so mad when on producer does something that works for him. If it dosn't work for you don't do it. Nobody is forcing anybody to buy anything. This debate is ridiculous.

[lakenheath]

Your comment is rediculous nw9flyn. If farmers in the country started using wheat with the Terminator Gene and it cross pollinated with other wheat then that would be the end of bin run seed. Unless you like seeding bin run seed at 25% germination. All I am saying is don't be blind to the potential implications of science. It is not all benefit.