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Companies Like Monsanto and DuPont Practically Own the Meal on Your Plate
Business  (tags: business, corporate, consumers, americans, farming, farms, food, Frankenfoods, GMO )

Roseann
- 56 days ago - alternet.org
Corporations have been given the power to own seeds. And they are eliminating competing varieties and crowning their own patented seeds as the only choice in the marketplace.
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Roseann Dudrick (74)
Tuesday October 13, 2009, 10:09 pm
In the plants world we should advocate for both pro-life (biodiversity) AND pro-choice (biodiversity).
 

Jodi S B. (120)
Wednesday October 14, 2009, 6:29 pm
THIS is extremely messed up!!! I had read some where that there use to be many many varieties of apples to but all but a few have disappeared!!! This up sets me so much!!!
 

Jodi S B. (120)
Wednesday October 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
no one should have such power and control over food....no one...really upsets me...
 

Daniel Barker (35)
Wednesday October 14, 2009, 7:57 pm
Boycott! Grow your own food! Sell seeds! put the corporations out of business.......
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (258)
Saturday October 17, 2009, 4:35 am
Oh boy is that why so many of us have indigestion... pass the maalox please
 
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