Monsanto's dominance draws antitrust inquiry

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Source: Washington Post

Patented seeds are go-to for farmers, who decry their fast-growing price

For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they've come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents.

Ninety-three percent of soybeans. Eighty percent of corn.

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The revolution, and Monsanto's dominant role in the nation's agriculture, has not unfolded without complaint. Farmers have decried the price increases, and competitors say the company has ruthlessly stifled competition.

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Now Monsanto -- like IBM and Google -- has drawn scrutiny from U.S. antitrust investigators, who under the Obama administration have looked more skeptically at the actions of dominant firms.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/28/AR2009112802471.html?hpid=topnews

[QC]

1. Vilsack will not be pleased. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. Human beings of common sense, however, will be pleased

Stop the occult corporate mutation of the food supply.

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3. Did you see their new restaurant?

[truedelphi]

5. Are reservations necessary? And can we bring the kids?

I'd sure hate the next generation growing up healthy and strong.

Let's get them their GMO foods today!

[Greyhound]

8. IHOP has been serving this for years.

The last time I went in there I ordered a simple breakfast, two eggs, hashed-browns, and a short-stack, and there was not one real thing on the plates, even the "butter" was some chemically flavored oil-like substance.

Needless to say, I haven't been back since.

[DeSwiss]

4. No one can stop Monsanto Claus, I tell you!!!!

- By the time this winds its way through the courts, all the plaintiffs will be dead from unknown causes.....

K&R

[Stargazer99]

6. L o n g past due

The common man is just begining to understand corporate America is not on their side.

[MrsCorleone]

10. It's good to see that some are catching a clue, but what took them so long?

[dmosh42]

7. Must be looking for a payoff! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

9. "Gmo-o-o-o-o good." - The Mutanians (R)