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Monsanto Executive Wins World Food Prize
sfcrazy writes "A top Monsanto executive has won the prestigious World Food Prize. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the award where Robert T. Fraley, the executive vice president and CTO of Monsanto, won the prize along with two other scientists from Belgium and the US. The award was given for devising a method to insert genes from another organism into plant cells, which could produce new genetic lines with highly favorable traits."
Would you like a tasty serving of irony with your patented GM beans?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
It is Monsanto. "Sell" isn't exactly wrong.
Hey, if Obama can win the Nobel Peace Prize for expanding our wars and the war powers assumed by his office, why shouldn't a company that that profiteers on regulatory agriculture monopolies get the World Food Prize?
To be fair, Obama didn't win the Nobel prize for ending wars. He won the prize for not being Bush.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
You can't put the *gene* back in the bottle again.
The day that happens you better have your guns ready.