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Monsanto Vs. Dupont: Glyphosate In The Seeds

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If companies like Monsanto have a truly safe product, why do they consumers, have to fight to know what is in their food. Monsanto has had on previous and ongoing lawsuits filed against farmers and other companies over their seed patents and distribution of seeds. There is the famous case of Monsanto sued their competitors DuPont over seed patents Monsanto claimed that DuPont engineered a seed with the same exact technology as they round up ready seeds and they violated the patent. When scientists analyzed both seed, they found the same exact application of glyphosate in the seeds. Does one not believe in the responsiveness for American laws being upheld? Americans pretentiousness towards laws that protect the cosmopolites and corporations, …show more content…

(BowmanV Monsanto) Bowman uses the defense of the timing of his second harvest was too risky to pay for the Monsanto premium price of the soy beans until he purchased a commodity seeds that was intended for planting or for animal feed that he sold to the grain elevator so he did could plant the superior seeds at a discount. Bowman filed a motion for patent exhaustion stating that Monsanto can not control where their seeds are sold to from farmers and he claimed that he bought these seeds from a grain elevator the court denied the motion furthermore, awarded Monsanto $84,456 the courts reasoning for their decision is that Bowman created new infringing article patent exhaustion does not protect bowmen from creating a new technology on top of the original essentially he is unable to plant new seeds from the harvest even though their DNA structure is …show more content…

(Bowman V Monsanto) C Wright Mills a famous sociologist who created the theory of the power elite, which draws conclusions, that people in dominate positions of power or dominate institutions will use their power to change politics at the executive level to protect their own profits. There are parallels in the united states of this thing that's happening right now President Obama passed a farm bill in 2014 the writer of the farm bill by senator Roy Blunt who received $64,250 from Monsanto to secure his place in office. (Bowman V Monsanto) Although there is no state ban on the planting and importing of genetically modified foods, there is two counties in Marin and Mendocino have enacted ordinances forbidding the cultivation of genetically modified foods not to mention California has banned a few crops but the majority of them are still

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