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If you'd just bother to read the page you linked for reference, you'd see this:

Since the mid1990s, Monsanto indicates that it has filed suit against 145 individual U.S. farmers for patent infringement and/or breach of contract in connection with its genetically engineered seed but has proceeded through trial against only eleven farmers, all of which it won.[131] The Center for Food Safety has listed 112 lawsuits by Monsanto against farmers for claims of seed patent violations.[132] The usual claim involves violation of a technology agreement that prohibits farmers from saving seed from one season's crop to plant the next. One farmer received an eight-month prison sentence for conspiracy to commit fraud during litigation with Monsanto[133] in addition to having to pay damages.[134]

Monsanto sued the Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator in Pilot Grove, Missouri, on the grounds that by cleaning harvested seeds covered by Monsanto's patents so that farmers could replant them, the elevator was inducing them to infringe Monsanto's patents. The Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator had been cleaning conventional seeds for decades before the development of genetic engineering and developments in patent law led to the existence of issued patents that cover seeds.[135]

In one case in 2002, Monsanto mistakenly sued Gary Rinehart of Eagleville, Missouri for patent violation. Rinehart was not a farmer or seed dealer, but sharecropped land with his brother and nephew, who were violating the patent. Monsanto dropped the lawsuit against him when it discovered the mistake.[135]

If you'd truly like to know more, you can start on these different themes about Monsanto and RoundUp:
Killing 90% of amphibians
Wiping out bee colonies
Killing thousands of farmers
Causing widespready obesity diseases

I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg. They will suck the planet and humanity dry, and vanish like a puff of smoke when everything collapses due to their greed and harmful actions. Make no mistake, Monsanto and the owners behind it will do everything in their effort to prevent being held accountable. Company accountability is almost non-existant by law anyway. So to expect anything better than amoral sociopathic behaviour from corporations is foolish, naive at best.

What fantastic gains:
Killing 90% of amphibians
Wiping out bee colonies
Killing thousands of farmers
Causing widespready obesity diseases

I'm sure there are lots more. This is just the tip of the iceberg. They will suck the planet and humanity dry, and vanish like a puff of smoke when everything collapses due to their greed and harmful actions.

Modern farming techniques are washing both down our rivers to the ocean:

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/are-we-heading-toward-peak-fertilizer

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/03/slow-insidious-soil-erosion-threatens-human-health-and-welfare

At least one country gets it:

http://www.rodale.com/organic-farms

A lot of farmers knew about the patents, but a lot didn't. You must consider that there are small farmers using their products, and if you ask some of them about "do you know what a patent is?" they will think is a kind of fruit. :-) I doubt even who knows about the patents could imagine that they will become victims of it on this level. Monsanto told them that Roundup (glyphosate) was safe and biodegradable (1), I guess what kinds of other advantages and lies they told them when they started to sell their seeds.

And even organic farmers are in danger (2)(3). They affirm that their fields are cross-pollinated with genetic material from neighboring farms growing Monsanto crops. When the question is money, people are unfortunately creative. :-(

(1) http://earthopensource.org/index.php/5-gm-crops-impacts-on-the-farm-and-environment/5-6-myth-roundup-is-a-benign-and-biodegradable-herbicide [earthopensource.org]
(2) http://www.fooddigital.com/production/monsanto-wins-case-against-organic-growers [fooddigital.com]
(3) http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-organic-farmers-lose-right-protect-crops [rodale.com]

A lot of farmers knew about the patents, but a lot didn't. You must consider that there are small farmers using their products, and if you ask some of them about "do you know what a patent is?" they will think is a kind of fruit. :-) I doubt even who knows about the patents could imagine that they will become victims of it on this level. Monsanto told them that Roundup (glyphosate) was safe and biodegradable (1), I guess what kinds of other advantages and lies they told them when they started to sell their seeds.

And even organic farmers are in danger (2)(3). They affirm that their fields are cross-pollinated with genetic material from neighboring farms growing Monsanto crops. When the question is money, people are unfortunately creative. :-(

(1) http://earthopensource.org/index.php/5-gm-crops-impacts-on-the-farm-and-environment/5-6-myth-roundup-is-a-benign-and-biodegradable-herbicide
(2) http://www.fooddigital.com/production/monsanto-wins-case-against-organic-growers
(3) http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-organic-farmers-lose-right-protect-crops

A lot of farmers knew about the patents, but a lot didn't. You must consider that there are small farmers using their products, and if you ask some of them about "do you know what a patent is?" they will think is a kind of fruit. :-) I doubt even who knows about the patents could imagine that they will become victims of it on this level. Monsanto told them that Roundup (glyphosate) was safe and biodegradable (1), I guess what kinds of other advantages and lies they told them when they started to sell their seeds.

And even organic farmers are in danger (2)(3). They affirm that their fields are cross-pollinated with genetic material from neighboring farms growing Monsanto crops. When the question is money, people are unfortunately creative. :-(

(1) http://earthopensource.org/index.php/5-gm-crops-impacts-on-the-farm-and-environment/5-6-myth-roundup-is-a-benign-and-biodegradable-herbicide
(2) http://www.fooddigital.com/production/monsanto-wins-case-against-organic-growers
(3) http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-organic-farmers-lose-right-protect-crops

A lot of farmers knew about the patents, but a lot didn't. You must consider that there are small farmers using their products, and if you ask some of them about "do you know what a patent is?" they will think is a kind of fruit. :-) I doubt even who knows about the patents could imagine that they will become victims of it on this level. Monsanto told them that Roundup (glyphosate) was safe and biodegradable (1), I guess what kinds of other advantages and lies they told them when they started to sell their seeds.

And even organic farmers are in danger (2)(3). They affirm that their fields are cross-pollinated with genetic material from neighboring farms growing Monsanto crops. When the question is money, people are unfortunately creative. :-(

(1) http://earthopensource.org/index.php/5-gm-crops-impacts-on-the-farm-and-environment/5-6-myth-roundup-is-a-benign-and-biodegradable-herbicide
(2) http://www.fooddigital.com/production/monsanto-wins-case-against-organic-growers
(3) http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-organic-farmers-lose-right-protect-crops

The forces at work to put GMO crops into the market is every bit as political as the movement to have the food produced from the same crops labeled. Your suggestion that the desire to have GMO labeling on food is merely a political movement makes it no less important.

Look, remove the incentive with patents and we'll see how important it really is to the companies that want to "feed the world.

You're right, I could educate myself and I do. But most people would like a guide. Here's a sample: "His survey found that 91 percent of people want GMOs labeled, while 81 percent "strongly favor" such labeling." http://www.rodale.com/gmo-labeling

But then again, the will of the people doesn't matter, does it? Corporate profits are more important, aren't they?

In other news, superbugs are growing resistant to bug-resistant gmo crops:

http://www.rodale.com/gmo-corn

I would have to give them up if I worked 100 hour weeks at google.

You would give up a lot more than that if you worked a 100-hour week. That's about 14 hours and 17 minutes per day, even at seven days per week. Add in even a few minutes of travel time back to your house, time to shower, time for eating food, and time for getting to bed, and you basically can't get a healthy eight hours of sleep. Anywhere near that level of work is considered a serious health hazard.

More importantly, working more than about 55 hours per week results in statistically significant cognitive decline even among otherwise healthy adults. So if you're working a 100-hour week, you're giving up your mind, too, not just your body.

Bingo! And don't think once they have run all us smokers out of existence things will be happy and sunny, oh no. You see they still want that "sin tax" money to blow even if there aren't any sinners left. So what to do? Oh we'll just label sweets and fats as "sins" and tax the hell out of them as well!

Remember folks, being free includes being free to choose what one puts in their own body, be it foods, drinks, or even drugs like alcohol and tobacco. If you are only "free" to drink what they tell you to, eat what they tell you to, and take what drugs they tell you to, or are taxed into the poorhouse, are you really free?

And before somebody brings up the "You'll cost us healthcare" red herring, even though we've blown more on pointless crap in Iraq in a year than all the smokers could EVER use, I'll tell you what: I'll gladly sign a contract saying I will only get Morphine (which is cheap) if I get cancer, and you give me back my right to choose without being taxed to death, deal? But you and I know that NO politician would ever go for that, because it is NOT about healthcare, it is about having more money to blow because you are stupid and nanny government knows best.

When they are done with smokers they'll move onto fats, sugars (which you are subsidizing with corn subsidies, which will probably increase if demand for HF Corn syrup goes down BTW) and salt, all because you are too stupid to take care of yourselves according to mama government. The TFA just proves that health is NOT the agenda, it is ever increasing taxes upon the poor and working class, with TARP and tax breaks for the wealthy. The only "socialism" we see in America is socialism for the rich, the rest of us just get buried in taxes.

A guy driving a BMW tried to kill me. He wasn't paying attention and came over into my lane.

• See 19 year old kills two in Utah.
• See My 350Z may be totaled!
• See comment from Mark K. Williams in artilce Promoting the Car Phone, Despite Risks.
• See comment from M in article 6 new Oregon business laws take effect 2010.

So what is the difference between drunk drivers or cell phone users trying to kill us?

The reason you do not hear about these things is because you do not research them. Searching the web reveals lots of death and destruction from cell phone users.