I would like to see farmers suing Monsanto for polluting their crops! What a switch. Has this ever happened?

I wonder how many crop farmers in this country presently use Monsanto seeds and how many chose not to from the very beginning and how many have quit using their seeds?

Anyone interested in this topic should definitely read F. William Engdahl's book SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION.

LOL...  There are plants that are immune to "Roundup".  There are also lots of folks that know how to do site specific gene transplanting.  If I were a terrorist, thats where I would direct my efforts.  The soy problem has told us what they are using to effect their transplant efforts and anyone with a garage and the knowledge can do the same for "weeds".  We have been monitoring the CO2 effect for more than 30 years and found that "weeds" seem to derive the most benefit. A few more immune to "Roundup" won't hurt anyone who avoids Monsanto Soy anyway.

All that matters to them is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ at any cost to our human life. Greed is the root to all evil.

Sorry to have to disagree with  a few minor points, but here goes. Potato propagation by vegetative means is not merely use of a small number of varieties. A small number of varieties might still be generating tens of thousands of different sub-varieties by cross pollination, if sexual reproduction were the norm. With whole fields, and whole counties growing not merely the same variety, but all descending in an invariant way from a single plant, if any one plant is susceptible, the whole county is susceptible to a disease.

With GM plants having been generated from a family line, we have a new case of a single variety. But many of the other varieties also descend from the same family line. Even when we have different varieties, we still have line breeding that goes back many generations.

Before we had GM, of course we had developed strains of plants that had come from a small group of plants and then selectively bred to assure they bred true to type. Meaning we had deliberately removed their genetic variability. When the practice of hybridization came along, some people imagined that problems they saw were caused mainly by hybridization, and some were. But the original strains had been developed with no genetic variability. It was this quality that made them totally susceptible to many diseases. Hybridization was reintroducing genetic variability, and so, undoing the mistake of elimination of genetic variability. We do need genetic variability, not in the sense of having more different varieties, but in having the varieties cross pollinate to produce a cross-product.

The very existence of narrowly defined strains is where our problem arises.

I don't know how many crops have been contaminated, but every state, every country in the world, including Iraq (because Republican Paul Brimmer pushed genetically modified seeds into Iraq as part of the agreement under the Bush-Cheney administration.  

There is no place on earth, where food crops are not being genetically modified.  Even some organic crops have become genetically modified (by cross pollination) and the some laws regulating organic have been changed for big business outside the true organic community.

www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm

See also, 09/10/08 - Lawsuit Would Halt Treatment of Raw Almonds with Toxic Fumigant or Steam Heat

www.organicconsumers.org/.../article_14566.cfm

and http://tinyurl.com/4nmxwo

Earlier in this thread you will find clear evidence that the Democrats are as much involved with Monsanto as Republicans.

The only significant party still oposing Monsanto appears to be the Greens,