NotEvenJail

There is a lot of assumption in this comment, but stay with me. He is most likely planting corn that is either owned by Monsanto, or at least has traits that are owned by Monsanto. There is no "debate". He plants what will most effectively make him money. Now, this may sound like a negative comment, but again, stay with me. What is the debate exactly? The only "evil" thing that Monsanto does is require people to buy new seed every year, instead of using the seed their corn plants make naturally. That does seem kind of evil, if you don't know anything about Monsanto. Their products have traits that make them work well in the areas they are planted, but also protect against a multitude of pests. These pests can become immune to the traits if the traits are not at full strength, which is what happens when you use seed that was made from full strength products. So, they require their customers to buy new seed so that their traits will continue to be effective, which is good for everyone involved. It takes an insane amount of time, and money, for them to develop these traits. When people screw the system and reuse or sell seed that was made from their products, it screws everyone. If one farmer does this, those now trait resistant pests will move to the next field over and start fucking shit up. So the guy that follows the rules gets screwed because the guy next door decided he didn't want to play by the rules. Yes, they prosecute the people who try and fuck them over, but they've settled most cases out of court. They don't bankrupt those farmers they prosecute (unless the farmer really screwed them over), they settle.

The next argument against Monsanto would be against their traits in general, and how "fucking with nature" is going to kill us all. The thing is, there isn't one study out there that says Monsanto products are bad for you. Seriously, go find one, I'll wait. Couldn't find anything? Weird huh? Monsanto does what every farmer would do over a period of years, except they do it faster. A farmer back in the day would walk his fields and find the plants that were strong and tall, and then use those seeds from those plants to try and have a better harvest the next year. Monsanto just isolates those traits and then puts them together to make plants that then make seed that will work in whatever area people farm in. They've even come out with a plant that can withstand drought. Which isn't only good for people in 1st world countries, it's even better for countries that have serious water issues.

I assume the next argument would be against them being a monopoly. It's hard to look up, but they actually have a very small market percentage in most corn/soybean growing states. Yes, they sell a ton of seed, and license their traits to other companies who also sell seed, but that doesn't make them a monopoly. There is a lot of seed sold that doesn't have any Monsanto traits.

So does this particular farmer plant Monsanto seed? I would guess that he does, but its stupid to think he would somehow get shutdown for answering your post. It's more likely he doesn't answer because it is too hard to explain to the Reddit hivemind who hates Monsanto for reasons that they can't explain. I've never seen a solid, fact based argument against Monsanto. We, the human race, can't feed ourselves on an organic platform. There isn't enough farmland in the world to sustain our ever growing population, and there certainly won't be as our population grows.

So with that, I'm out. I hope this at leasts reaches a few people.

tl;dr. Monsanto isn't the evil company that everyone thinks they are.

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