Trying to avoid Monsanto?

[curly_kate]

If you are trying to avoid buying seeds from Mosanto, here is a list of their brands that they offer through their Seminis brand:
http://us.seminis.com/products/products.asp

 

[Texan]

If you are trying to avoid buying seeds from Mosanto, here is a list of their brands that they offer through their Seminis brand:
http://us.seminis.com/products/products.asp

How come we are avoiding Mosanto? Did I miss something?

 

[beavis]

I'm guessing its because they are a huge player in genetically modified seed and/or a large corporation that puts small seed companies out of business.

 

[seedcorn]

Whereas Seminis is Monsantos global vegetable seeds brand
from your site you sent us to.
Don't understand your post.

 

[curly_kate]

I'm guessing its because they are a huge player in genetically modified seed and/or a large corporation that puts small seed companies out of business.

That's what I mean. I don't like their business practices, and I would rather support a diversity in our supply of seeds as opposed to one corporation trying to corner the market. I think there are some other posters who have similar feelings, so I thought the link might be helpful to them. You can click on the links for the vegetables, and it tells you the name of the variety that Monsanto/Seminis owns.

 

[Reinbeau]

They are buying up seeds so they can work on patenting anything and everything, so they have control over all seeds via genetic patents. I avoid them like the plague.

 

[nittygrittydirtdigger]

There is not enough room here to enumerate all the ways Monsanto is destroying (and I use that word with deliberateness) our food crops. Anyone who does not wish to consume GMO foods or weed killer had best take a long hard look at their practices, and then be sure that any homegrown food does not come from seeds distributed by them.

And if some of your crops get pollinated by Monsanto pollen, look out! They could (and have) confiscate the crop, with the argument that you have benefited from their intellectual property.

Here's a blurb from one of their ads for Roundup. Please note that they promote spraying weed killer on a food product/livestock feed that was DESIGNED to be resistant to the herbicide.

Simply the Most Profitable Way to Grow Soybeans
Roundup Ready Soybean varieties contain in-plant tolerance to Roundup agricultural herbicides. This means you can spray Roundup agricultural herbicides in-crop from emergence through flowering for unsurpassed weed control, proven crop safety and maximum yield potential.

 

[curly_kate]

I am all for capitalism, as long as the players don't play dirty. Their business policies are horrible! And it really scares me to think of the source of our food in the hands of one massive global corporation.

 

[okiegirl]

ok, regarding seed saving.

does that mean I need to only buy seeds that aren't from Monsanto so I can save the seeds? I read/heard/saw on tv something to the effect that Monsanto is making seeds not ...um... what's the term.... where the seeds that form on the veggie don't produce new plants. can't remember what that's called.

so I need to only get seed that not genetically modified, right?

 

[curly_kate]

Okiegirl - look for seeds that are open-pollinated or heirloom. If you save hybrid seeds (which is what Monsanto develops/sells), you will not necessarily get the same fruit/veggie that you started with. That said, I am a newbie to seed saving, so I'm sure someone with much more experience will chime in, too.

You can find hybrid seeds that were not created by Monsanto, but they have a hand in a lot of what you find in stores.