Seems the “Progressives” think Monsanto, maker of herbicides as well as herbicide-resistant plants is as bad a boogey-man as the Koch Brothers!
Here’s a link from one of the more hacky “Progressive” bloggers.
Look at the pictures from that protest. If any of them could even READ a scientific report (which I doubt any of them could) they wouldn’t anyway because “Reasoned Discourse” is a lifestyle!
Still this anti-Genetically Modified Food madness is leading to WORSE madness!
The crop-biotechnology company Friday called on authorities to investigate the discovery as it made its strongest statement yet that sabotage led to the incident, which was announced in May by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Monsanto had said earlier this month that sabotage was among several possible causes.
The discovery of the wheat, genetically engineered to survive exposure to the widely used herbicide glyphosate, has threatened to upend the wheat market. In the wake of the discovery, Japan and South Korea imposed restrictions on imports of U.S. wheat, which remain in place.
The fact the genetically modified wheat in question was found in one isolated portion of a farmer’s field, instead of being dispersed throughout the field, indicated that contamination of seed supplies in the region didn’t appear to be a possibility, said Robb Fraley, Monsanto’s chief technology officer and executive vice president.
Instead, Mr. Fraley said during a media briefing, the unapproved wheat appeared to be placed in the northeast Oregon field separately, adding the farmer was a “victim” in the incident….In 2011, Bayer AG BAYN.XE -0.19% settled with U.S. rice farmers for $750 million following the discovery of unapproved genetically modified rice, which caused U.S. exports to plunge.
This scare has also caused exports to plunge and the value of US Wheat to drop on the global market. These environmental terrorists are so hell-bent to cause panic they’re willing to do what they claim to want to prevent just to make a point!
