Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro...
by randomdata on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:19AM
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> Not supporting Monsanto's business model isn't the same thing as not 'listen[ing] to scientists'.
Monsanto is dead. Its assets were sold off to other players in the industry.
Further, the patents that brought disdain to the Monsanto of the past expired years ago. The business model that centred around those specific patents has not been a business model for quite some time. Even before those patents expired, it was not their business model anymore as the technology moved forward and those patents were no longer all that relevant.
> it is also a driving force in the expansion of monoculture techniques rather than more sustainable polycultures.
Yet, when I travel through the rural parts of the world, I see endless rows of rusted out row crop equipment that are older than the invention of Glyphosate itself. I am not convinced your timeline really fits.
> Monocultural key foodcrops are a long-tail risk to food security. The Irish potato famine
Another good example. The famine took place 129 years before Glyphosate was sold for agriculture use. Not to mention that it took another 22 years after that before the first roundup resistant crop made it to market.
Monsanto is dead. Its assets were sold off to other players in the industry.
Further, the patents that brought disdain to the Monsanto of the past expired years ago. The business model that centred around those specific patents has not been a business model for quite some time. Even before those patents expired, it was not their business model anymore as the technology moved forward and those patents were no longer all that relevant.
> it is also a driving force in the expansion of monoculture techniques rather than more sustainable polycultures.
Yet, when I travel through the rural parts of the world, I see endless rows of rusted out row crop equipment that are older than the invention of Glyphosate itself. I am not convinced your timeline really fits.
> Monocultural key foodcrops are a long-tail risk to food security. The Irish potato famine
Another good example. The famine took place 129 years before Glyphosate was sold for agriculture use. Not to mention that it took another 22 years after that before the first roundup resistant crop made it to market.