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Originally Posted by plwhit
Roundup is a broad-spectrum herbicide, has nothing to do with this thread and is off-topic.
Would you grow up and stay on topic please?
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Outside of your insulting tone. This is directly on-topic.
Anything that is intimately inter-twined with the topic is likewise a part of the topic.
Discuss cars without discussing engines? Engines without carburetors?
Can not do it.
A large portion of GMO is 'roundup-ready'. It is a topic of GMO. It effects all crop economics. Do you pay the big bucks for round-up? Or do you plant GMO?
Do you risk growing conventional and possibly being sued by Monsanto because their pollen blew over your land?
Or their trucks drove by and spilled grain onto your land?
So later you stand to lose your farm in their law suit?
By the way, they have an army of lawyers, and they have never lost a law suit against any of the farmers they have fought against. They can afford to file motion after motion, so any lawyer against them is racking thousands of billable hours.
No farmer whose only actual 'income; is the Federal subsidy dollars, can afford to fight Monsanto in a courtroom.
My BIL's only income is from farming. His only 'profit' is from the subsidies [thanks to the gospel of Earl Butz]. Otherwise he breaks even. He has no money to go fighting a big corporation.
What they tell him to plant, he plants.
I see other farmers around me, some take subsidies. I have been offered Fed subsidies for my operation. I turned it down. It might have made my operation break even, but I don't need it. I get a military pension. I can afford to run a farm at a small loss.
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