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Old 02-15-2009 | 12:02 AM
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Bugflipper
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When corn pollinates whatever is down wind it picks up the qualities of the upwind corn. Monsanto corn is patented. They recently won a ruling to receive royalties from farmers whose land their crop invaded by pollination. Monsanto doesn't allow reseeding, you have to buy from them. Not only did the farmers lose their human consumption status, they had to pay royalties to Monsanto for their yield and could not plant the crop for next year without buying new. Livestock corn obviously sells at a much lower rate to boot. 400,000 acres have been lost to this in the last 3 years. Since the jet stream pushes East each year more land is overcome by altered corn.
Since the Midwest is the chief supplier of human corn for the world this is a major concern. My corn goes to Asia. A DNA test is done each year on it to see if it suitable for consumption. The reason altered corn usually has a livestock status is it generally causes liver and kidney toxicity in the animal's short life span. With the current rate of GA corn migration there will be major problems within the next 10 years. If it is just round up ready that is fine. But in most cases there is more to it. If you grow a corn with more than 2 ears per stalk there the problem lies.
In closing sir I mean absolutely no disrespect to you. I have read thousands of studies on this subject since it is a portion of my income. Personally I don't like it. If you do I have no problem with it.
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