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See for example: http://www.capitalpress.com/Ca... Note especially the part where some farmers got 5 percent of normal. Farmers always take the first hit because they can handle it more easily than others although the few with senior water rights do get it easier than the rest.

> Monsanto is a herbicide company, not a seed company.

Not according to their income statement. $790M profit from seeds and trait licensing, $181 from everything else.

Most Round-Up these days is made by generic Chinese manufacturers. Not Monsanto.

http://www.capitalpress.com/content/mp-glyphosate-dumping

Here's one from last year.

Neither one of those links could be considered source material for the harmful effects of this sort of tecnology. The first one reports on increased cancers at the site where RFID chips are implanted. It's not about exposure to radio energy so much as it is about having a radio receiver implanted in the body. The second one doesn't offer up any facts related to the harmfulness of wireless technology. It's purely a specultative 'what if fluff' piece. Got anything better?

http://capitalpress.com/Main.asp?SectionID=94&ArticleID=35165 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/21/dangers-of-wi-fi-should-be-reevaluated-possibly-more-harmful-than-previosuly-indicated/ And about a zillion other articles debating the harmfulness of all the various wireless technologies. Of course you will always find a study that counters the previous one. Still, things like cellphones heating up body tissue are undebatable, long time studies aren't available for modern technologies, for obvious reasons.

Scott, the big turf company, is working hard to try and get Roundup-ready bent grass seed into the market. They've had the same problems with seed getting out into the wild (i.e., into and past their buffer zone areas around the test plots and production evaluation fields in Central Oregon far more than they anticipated). Naturally, the Willamette Valley, arguably the principal grass seed growing region in the US, if not the world, is not too happy about this.

But at least plans for Roundup-Ready wheat have been shelved indefinitely.

Read up about it more on the Capital Press website: http://capitalpress.com/

The problem I have for it is that Monsanto essentially has pushed ALL liability for the use of its GM seed onto the farmer, as well as leaving the burden of proof of innocence on the farmer. It *should* be that Monsanto has to prove that the farmer intentionally kept the seed after production.

What it really should be is that once the seed leaves the seed warehouse and is stuck into the ground, it's out of Monsanto's control.

Or perhaps they should just then figure out how to get Roundup-ready genes to be passed into hybrids, which inherently on their own typically have less vigor the next generation or two later.

If a smart farmer has essentially developed their own localized, optimized blend of seed over 20 or 40 years, *NEVER* bought RR seed from Monsanto or worked land that had it recently and some of it has been introduced through no action of the farmer (how's he supposed to kill it off, because it's roundup-ready!), and Monsanto can essentially declare the farmer a thief and force him to destroy his life's work?

That is completely fucked up.