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Brazilian soybean farmers oppose contract with Monsanto to end royalties’ dispute
Brazilian farmer groups are opposing a contract that Monsanto the world’s biggest seed company is offering farmers to end a dispute over royalty payments on its genetically modified soybean seeds. Monsanto is trying to resolve uncertainty over its ability to collect fees on its new Intacta soybeans, which it is scheduled to start selling in Brazil during the next growing season. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSr. Silveira says ”“We believe producers are being tricked into signing a contract that will get them trapped to Monsanto for every new technology” and he is exactly correct. The farmers must reject EVERY contract that Monsanto puts on the table. It will be worded to look like a short term benefit, but it will never be a long term benefit for the farmer's. Monsanto is out to destroy the the world, one bio-system and one farmer at a time. See this if you don't believe what I am saying: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/19/1607161/monsanto-supreme-court-hearing/
Feb 21st, 2013 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and this to see who the courts will back if a farmer is taken to court: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/19/1607161/monsanto-supreme-court-hearing/
Okay, Trolls.... you can come out now.
(1) rylang23
Feb 21st, 2013 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have been called a “Troll” so many times in here that I feel entitled to anserw you ;-)
Seriously now, except for the part where you say “Monsanto is out to destroy the the World”; I fully agree with your assesment.....
Life is to important a thing to be the private property of a Missourian Corporation, well known for some of its products as DDT, PCB, Agent Orange and Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin.
(2) It may not be in Monsanto's Mission Statement nor its yearly reports, but the destruction of bio-diversity is exactly what Monsanto is about. As they would put it in private, “We want to control all of the seeds in the world being used for growing food”, which means all seed will become GMO, which means death to bio-diversity in the food chain. So, allow me to restate that sentence you pointed out:“Monsanto cares only about its profits, and will severely damage the bio-deversity and long term food security of the world in the pursuit of its stated goals”.
Feb 21st, 2013 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's more like it .......
Feb 21st, 2013 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Somebody should stop those guys.....
My advice is stop buying the seeds and the pesticides immediately. Go back to the seeds you were using prior to the Round Up ready and watch your yields plummet along with your income.
Feb 21st, 2013 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina in particular has nothing else to offer the world. Ask CFK if she wants to stop selling soy.
Idiots
Irrespective of the merits or otherwise of GM, Monsanto single handedly manages to give the whole industry a bad name.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 01:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0See yankeeboy? Seems like a lot of people are turning away from your ways of making business. Why so desperate on getting everybody on your train of free trade? You fear to feel all alone at the bottom?
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 02:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0I predict absolutely no one will turn away from my system, and thank you for billing me as the creator of capitalism it's a little late and I am not that old.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the end the Brazilian farmers will come to agreement with Monsanto or be forced to use pre 90s seeds that will kill their yields. They have no choice.
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220082: Forced to use pre 1990 seeds as they did before 2005? I think not.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The issue is the levy. The farmers have won every court case so far. And Monsanto will loose its further appeals.
Monsanto will never be in the position to sell to anyone it doesn't want to. The Brazilians will agree or be forced out of the SOY business.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Totally up to them.
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220145: Before 2005 the GM seed used was not bought from Monsanto. If Monsanto does not sell then the farmers will get the seed from the same source as they did pre 2005.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In any case Monsanto has registered the patent in Brazil. If Monsanto refuses to sell then Brazil will break the patent under law.
I don't think that would go over very well with the USA gov't and in the end Brazil will pay Monsanto for the patent anyway. Monsanto can block the sale of the their patented Soy until it is paid just like they did with Argentina a few years ago.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you know nothing of which you speak?
Go to EMBRAPA brothers. The better agricultural research in the world. 90% of the technology in the farms of Brasil is EMBRAPA, not Monsanto.
Feb 22nd, 2013 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0EMBRAPA = EMpresa BRAsileira de Pesquisas Agrícolas
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220165: When Brazil has broken patents held by US corporations (because they have not complied with Brazilian law) in the past the US government has done nothing. Why should it be different now?
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Show me the links because you are so very wrong as usual.
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is begin....if you want more, take me........Do you are Obama Bin Laden?
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 02:28 am - Link - Report abuse 016. Those are English words but whatever you typed is certainly not English.
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry, i dont speak and dont understand englisee. But, yours words about our civilization i can to understand. Please, peace when you to speak about our civilization. I like USA because democracy, liberty and EDUCATION is everything. Thanks brother.
Feb 23rd, 2013 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220295: I would have thought that you could have found the links yourself. Brazil has broken patents a number of times - in 2000 and 2006 IIRC. All this has been covered extensively. Here is one link: http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220295:
Feb 24th, 2013 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well that article says “Brazil plans..in retaliation...” not quite the same thing
Feb 24th, 2013 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so try again
loser
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/21/brazilian-soybean-farmers-oppose-contract-with-monsanto-to-end-royalties-dispute#comment220658: It mentions past instances as part of the over view. As I have said these have been widely reported at the time.
Feb 25th, 2013 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Monsanto is going to loose this one.
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