This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto involving an Indiana farmer who allegedly bought commodity seed from an elevator and used that seed to plant another crop. Monsanto argues this act would infringe on its technology use agreement. To me it sounds like Bowman did this knowingly violating the agreement. Personally, […]
Critics of conventional farming often decry the use of herbicides. Especially glyphosate. That’s all fine and dandy, but the problem I see with the arguments some people present is they contain no substance. Take a look at a facebook post on the Kellogg’s Facebook page that I shared to my blog page to get other’s response on. […]
You may remember a while back when I wrote a post about biotech sweet corn, and how it could greatly reduce pesticide applications. Thanks to the popularity of that post (which still gets hits almost daily) I was afforded an opportunity by Monsanto to take delivery of a few freshly harvested ears of Seminis® Performance […]
There has been a lot of talk about whether or not food suppliers should be required to label foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). Consumer demand for this type of labeling seems to be growing along with an increased interest in learning how food gets from farm to table. The heated debate over so-called […]
Yesterday I was reviewing my blog statistics and found something interesting. One of the links bringing people in to my Occupy the Food Supply post was coming from NPR’s “Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers’ Case Against Monsanto“. I could not remember commenting on an NPR post or even reading one lately. As it turns out someone left […]
Today is the day. The Occupy movement is going to occupy our food supply. According to the occupiers and Farm Aid president Willie Nelson large corporations have too much control over our food. I won’t deny that there has been a lot of consolidation in the food and seed markets over the years, but that […]