Monsanto: friend or foe?

                Monsanto is a gigantic seed producing conglomerate that is constantly under public scrutiny. While they’re not actually doing anything illegal but they are, because of their size, taking extreme advantage of the market. This is a clear cut example of a company that needs to be reined in. Like Wal-Mart and McDonalds, Monsanto has been getting a lot of negative feedback for doing good business. While their business tactics are technically legal, the sheer size of this corporation threatens to control the entire market, which puts small mom and pop operations into a very uncomfortable position.  Monsanto has for years been producing genetically engineered seeds for the agricultural community that dramatically increase the yield of their crops. Because Monsanto owns all the genotypes they produce, they make the farmer either adhere to strict growing guidelines or sell them a special seed which grows once and doesn’t produce a viable seed for the next crop. Either way, due to the carful and quiet destruction of pure stains, the little guy gets roped in to an endless cycle of needless seed procurement. This attitude raised a definite eyebrow in the medical marijuana community when, as soon as the proposition 19 initiative to legalize marijuana in the state of California was put on the ballot for November, Monsanto bought several hundred acres in the northern part of the state earmarked for just that purpose. It has been rumored that Monsanto has produced special stains of so called “Terminator” seeds that spread their non- pollinating trait like a disease to other crops, making them sterile forever after.  I’m not just talking about one kind of pot sterilizing another, I’m saying there tomatoes will sterilize your corn and everything else in your garden. If these things are even partially true, then the effects of these allegations may have a much father reach than the medical marijuana community. Conspiracy theorists predict that Monsanto and corporations like it will eventually control the entire global food supply. With allegations like these it’s not hard to see what’s freaking people out.

Im just scratching the surface on this one
I will be writting more soon