Are You Unintentionally Supporting Monsanto?

[Staff]

Are You Unintentionally Supporting Monsanto?
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For the past few years there has been an uproar in the vegetable seed business as Monsanto purchased Seminis in 2005 (a seed conglomerate that has 40% of the U.S. vegetable seed market) and in 2008, De Ruiter Seeds (one of the top vegetable breeders in the world). Monsanto is now in the vegetable seed business for the first time, and it's in big time. More than 55 percent of store bought lettuce, 75 percent of U.S. tomatoes, and 85 percent of peppers now originate through Monsanto's fingers.* Our salad plate is now being dished out by Monsanto! We now have yet another reason to buy organic produce. Hopefully this will not go to naught, and it will be the impetus to get even more Americans to start a vegetable garden...and possibly a fruit garden as well!

In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty that genetic coding could be owned. This changed the seed industry from public to private, and corporations outside of the seed business (mostly pharmaceutical and chemical cos) started buying up seed companies. A few multinational companies now own our plants' genes! And our choices keep getting smaller as these hybrid seed companies 'perfect' our seed for us, breeding out all of our food history.

Due to Monsanto's huge purchase, you'll need to do a bit of homework if you wish to steer clear of purchasing their seed, as even reputable seed companies that have signed the Safe Seed Pledge, are still...

[jack]

Originally Posted by Staff

Are You Unintentionally Supporting Monsanto?
Organic vegetables start out as seed...

Duplicate of Organic vegetables start out as seed...
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I bookmarked that site. I'll buy only from the companies that don't even handle Monsanto seeds. I look at those larger companies who carry both organic and Mosanto seeds as suspect and supporters of the beast.

[benj1]

I need to do a better job of planning ahead for seed purchases so I don't have to run down to the local hardware for last-minute purchases as my garden plan changes.

[BeeWonderful]

Botanical Interests is the company I've used for the past 3 years, ever since I learned that Johnny's seeds has some Monsanto varieties....I'm glad to see it's on there!