Comment by 332i on "Colombia Will Stop Spraying Monsanto’s RoundUp On Their Cocaine" in /r/worldnews:
This is basically what happens, but Monsanto has a monopoly on this shit. Every year, they release GMO seeds to farmers. The following year, they get more seeds, but this time it requires a different formula of round-up. The farmers plant every seed because of this. They know that even if they hung onto this years seeds to plant next year...next years round up won't work on this years seeds. Monsanto knows what the hell they're doing and they keep farmers on a ferris wheel that doesn't stop. Then, since they plant all of the seeds...they never sell it all. Then the subsidies come in and they get compensated by the govt. with our tax dollars for not being able to sell as much as they bought into. The problem is that they don't spend nearly as much on the plants that don't grow in comparison to what they get back from the govt. It was a hot topic for a while that seemed to day. People were pissed for like two weeks and it just faded away.
Also, Monsanto seeds are brutal on the ground's nutrients. It's not just the round up that ruins fields. If you plant monsanto corn seeds in a field...you can't plant anything that would be remotely sweet for the next year or two in the same field. They rape the soil of nutrients. IDK, I guess you could grow potatoes or some shit. Not yams/sweet potatoes, though. No fruits, etc.
Farmers can't get out of the revolving door right now. At least not in the US. Once Monsanto got the ball rolling, the farmers couldn't stop it. You can't grow next years seed, because it is designed to work with next years round up. If you don't use it, your crops won't go to well that season. If you use last years seeds as I said...it would just be like not using the round up. You'd be spraying useless chemicals for no reason. They design the seeds of the year to work with the respective years round up. Anything else doesn't work out too well for farmers. I believe they're signed to some sort of clauses as well that further tie them down with monsanto.
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