Dew, Re - Monsanto - yes, they have a really bad reputation around the world, so you never know what to believe. In India, Monsanto reportedly gave the first year's worth of seeds to the farmers essentially for free, promising they would require less water, less pesticides, fertilizers, etc, but the opposite turned out to be true. Once the farmers were hooked on the GMO seeds, Monsanto then jacked up the prices. Being unable to afford the expensive seeds and fertilizers, huge numbers of Indian farmers committed suicide. There were articles all over the internet news sites about it, though I guess not much in the mainstream US press.
In occupied Iraq, it is now illegal for farmers to plant anything except GMO seeds, as dictated by the US overseers. Their heirloom seed lines went back thousands of years, but now they're stuck with GMO forever. Nutritionally, GMO isn't the same as natural bred seed lines, and given the choice, cattle won't touch GMO feed.
