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 Monsanto Wins Lawsuit While Food Justice Advocates ‘Occupy’ Food System 
On a day that ‘Occupy’ groups, environmental and food justice organizations have called for a global day of action to resist corporate control of the food system, news comes that a federal judge has ruled in favor of seed giant Monsanto Co. in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations challenging the company’s seed patents.

Probably one of the best arguments against capitalism is in Monsanto’s treatment of farmers through their gene patents. The implications are terrifying.

domesticterrorism:

Monsanto Wins Lawsuit While Food Justice Advocates ‘Occupy’ Food System

On a day that ‘Occupy’ groups, environmental and food justice organizations have called for a global day of action to resist corporate control of the food system, news comes that a federal judge has ruled in favor of seed giant Monsanto Co. in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations challenging the company’s seed patents.

Probably one of the best arguments against capitalism is in Monsanto’s treatment of farmers through their gene patents. The implications are terrifying.