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Dominant Traits
Monsanto's latest court triumph cloaks massive market power |
Tom Philpott |
17 Jan 2008 |
Victual Reality |
| How does your garden grow? Photo: iStockphoto At first glance, it was an open-and-shut case. In 1998, Mississippi farmer Homan McFarling bought soybean seeds with genetic traits owned by Monsanto, then as now the world's dominant provider of genetically modified seeds -- and also the biggest herbicide maker. Like all farmers who buy GM seeds, McFarling signed a contract obliging him not to ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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Tortilla Spat
How Mexico's iconic flatbread went industrial and lost its flavor |
Tom Philpott |
13 Sep 2006 |
Victual Reality |
| In a spectacle similar to the one conjured up by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, a Mexican judiciary panel handed the nation's presidency to Felipe Calderón last week. Even The New York Times, in its circumspect way, acknowledged that the new president-elect's narrow victory over leftist rival Andrés Manuel López Obrador involved seemingly illegal activity by Calderón's governmental and bi ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, local food, Mexico, politics, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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